Music from TDS trailer?

Rinscewind on 16/5/2009 at 02:47

The trailer for TDS -- link: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzd8UcGs6E) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzd8UcGs6E (or just search YouTube for 'Thief Deadly Shadows Trailer') -- has a real nice track that starts at about 1:12. I've heard the music before, maybe just when I played T3 or even from when I saw the trailer so long ago, but I can't remember where exactly.

Can someone tell me what the title of the original track is? I'd also like to know where it came from (T3, as generic trailer music for more than just T3, etc.), where the full track can be listened to/bought/d-l'd, who wrote it, etc. etc.?

The replys on the YouTube page say it's titled 'A Woman Called Viktoria', but the 'Viktoria' track - at least as to the one titled such on thief-thecircle.com - is only ambient music from one of T2's missions and nothing like the orchestral piece from the trailer.

I've read thru a dozen threads here and more elsewhere, but no luck so far. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Yandros on 16/5/2009 at 03:55

It's most likely that this was music made by Eric Brosius for the trailer which never got released in a standalone form, unfortunately.

Rinscewind on 16/5/2009 at 06:32

Other posts on a few other boards say the music was used in other places. Altho' there's no reason to actually believe this, the trailer music used in Hollywood usually has little or nothing to do with the films the trailers are about. I'll bump this post occasionally just to see if someone might know.

Any ideas on who to ask, and where the best places to ask them would be? Like - old employees and current email addresses? I'll poke around, of course, but it never hurts to ask ... might save some time and effort. =-)

Thanks.

Digital Nightfall on 16/5/2009 at 06:50

There's been some strange things going on with the Thief trailer music, like these T2 trailers from the old days...

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNvvdqy-Tk)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlFed7Ye-z0&feature=related)

I actually like the music in the second one. Also, yay discworld. :)

The Magpie on 16/5/2009 at 11:50

Where are the non-FLV movie files for those, I wonder? Maybe it's possible to extract somewhat higher quality for them. Also, try running them through Shazam or something.

Could be the trailers even were produced by Eidos directly, not ION Storm or LGS, for all I know. In fact, I don't think this is unlikely at all.

At least we know that the unique music to THIS Thief trailer was made by Eric Brosius:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmMu53tZw0)

BTW, Digi, there's your T-shirt candidate stained-glass Thief graphic at the end. Animated, even.

--
Larris

Stath MIA on 16/5/2009 at 17:09

Here's a link to a website with a good flv converter, I just downloaded the vid and converted it with no problems:
(http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html)

Enjoy!

DJ Riff on 16/5/2009 at 19:43

Quote:

Where are the non-FLV movie files for those, I wonder?

(ftp://djriff.homeftp.net/media/video/official/thief3/)

This particular video:
(ftp://djriff.homeftp.net/media/video/official/thief3/eidos_american_trailer.wmv)

Wakey on 25/5/2009 at 21:56

I also love the music in the TDS Trailer.
For gods sake, anyone just must know what it's title is (and if i have to ask Eric Brosius himself xD ).

I guess there is still a way to get this song somewhere, i also looked for the original Soul Reaver theme a few years ago, and even if it was hard to get, i still was able to get it.

Any ideas?