'Trace' was a project of many firsts for me; first time working on a sound team, first time scoring a trailer, but most pivotally, first time scoring horror. With that in mind, I spent many hours pouring over horror trailers and scores to get an idea of how I might approach this project. One reference that stood out to me in particular was the trailer to the original 'Alien' (1979) with it's impeccably tense, cacophonous sound. I tried to mirror that in some of the initial drafts for the project that were later built on by the sound team.