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For added atmosphere, play the music from this trailer while reading on. Trailers love to play up excitement and mystery, and as of The New '10s, one favorite way to do this by tickling the ears with an unusual sound. One of these sounds is the Previews Pulse. It is often created by an instrument known as a blaster beam which creates a single chord which ends up sounding technological and mysterious. Other methods are through mixing several instruments, usually bass, or altering the sound of a horn. These "pulses" are used in trailers to create a feeling of sudden tension, similar to a Scare Chord, but are rarely used in the movie itself, as it may be distracting. A trailer that uses them is often made up of rapidly cut snippets, with the chord announcing with each new scene. Not to be confused with Heartbeat Soundtrack, another common trailer trope. Examples |
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Sound familiar? The chord does show up in the film once, as spear-wielding apes appear on a roof. | |
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Endgame areas of Borderlands 2 use this liberally, especially in areas with volcanic activity or severe industrialization, as well as transitions into and out of combat. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows uses the classic blaster beam pulses in the beginning of its trailer. | |
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Modern Warfare 2 also had one during the "No Russian" mission. | |
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Battleship's trailer used these upon reveal of the aliens. | |
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Cowboys & Aliens's is fairly muted, but it culminates at 2:07. | |
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The Wolverine's first trailer features one, 1:20 minutes in. | |
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The score of Princess Mononoke begins with two reverb-heavy pulses from a massive taiko drum. | |
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Pacific Rim has one in its first trailer, though it's much less loud and more high than most examples. | |
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Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta's Death Ray uses a sound similar to the later Inception pulse. Oddly, the laser weapons in Fallout 4 sound like this as well. | |
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X-Men Film Series: The Wolverine's first trailer features one, 1:20 minutes in. X-Men: Apocalypse: There are several of these in the SDCC and the teaser trailers. |
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How It Should Have Ended: Superman brings up this trope in this episode of Super Cafe, about the then-recent Man of Steel trailer. | |
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12 Years a Slave: Pops up around thirty seconds in. | |
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Halo. In Halo 2, a blaster beam hit is heard when the Covenant blow up the Malta and Athens space stations. There's also the bass pulse in "Impend" and "Heretic, Hero", and the Arbiter's Invisibility Cloak sound. In Halo 4, the orange pulses used to scan the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn create a noticeable rumble, possibly from the ship shaking from the scans. Spartan Ops: The recovered Forerunner artifact in Episode 5 gives ominous pulses as the crew approaches to study it. |
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Mass Effect 3's trailers had them. The "pulse" is actually in-universe: it's the sound the Reapers generate when charging their massive beam cannons. It also is apparently a pitched-down version of the Inception sound. | |
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District 9's second trailer featured pulses of many sizes. They're in-universe, to boot - they're the sounds the ship makes. One shatters every window in Johannesburg. | |
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In a 10 O'Clock Live segment on the media's treatment of the Japan earthquake in 2011 showed Sky News doing this with a preview for its upcoming coverage, accidentally underlining their own tastelessness in dramatizing a real disaster in such a way when it was immediately followed by a trailer for Game of Thrones that used exactly the same style. | |
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The alarms in Dishonored have this type of sound. | |
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World War Z has a distinctly electric variant in its first trailer. Honest Trailers lampshades them as "Obligatory Inception Bwaaahhs". |
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TRON: Legacy plays one as Sam first enters the Grid and sees a Recognizer. Its trailer isn't free of them either. | |
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The Transformers Film Series, particularly the trailers for Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon. | |
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Played with a bit, in that this is not quite the "laser" type of pulse; the use of Steely Dan's "Dirty Work", in the promotion of The Suicide Squad (2021), trailers and commercials, were punctuated by pulsing guitar riffs for each new clip, as well as Dan shouting "YEAH!". | |
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Alien: The Unbuilt Ur-Example is likely the trailer. Here, it is a remixed and drawn out sonar ping, and is much more high pitched and unnerving. Bonus points for the Heartbeat Soundtrack mixed with this in the trailer. The combined effect of the sonic ping sounding like a surreal warning alarm, the varying heartbeat and additional sound layering is astonishingly effective at creating a sense of terror even today. | |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Another chord from Hans Zimmer himself. | |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra's "Justice for Saint Mary" (the final track off Pandora's Piñata). At 5:45 into the song, just after the final chorus, there are two low-pitched trombone notes, signaling to the listener that the song is about to kick it up a notch. | |
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Axiom Verge features pulses in its title theme, also used in the PS4/PSVita announce trailer, and the intro of "Apocalypse". | |
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The second The Avengers trailer had some instances of this, coupled with Loki's Hannibal Lecture. So did its third trailer. | |
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The Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration trailer. | |
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In Halo 2, a blaster beam hit is heard when the Covenant blow up the Malta and Athens space stations. There's also the bass pulse in "Impend" and "Heretic, Hero", and the Arbiter's Invisibility Cloak sound. | |
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In Halo 4, the orange pulses used to scan the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn create a noticeable rumble, possibly from the ship shaking from the scans. | |
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Honest Trailers lampshades them as "Obligatory Inception Bwaaahhs". | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: There are several of these in the SDCC and the teaser trailers. | |
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Prometheus used these, coupled with a strange howl taken from the original trailer for Alien. | |
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Red Riding Hood goes for the horn. | |
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Forza Motorsport 6's soundtrack has pulses obviously cribbed from Inception in "Starting Grid", "From Flag to Flag", and "Blow the Lid Off", though no pulses were used in the actual trailers. | |
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Inception is one of the most famous examples, featuring a distinctive sound in the trailers that became memetic. Buttons for it exist. | |
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