Copyright free music

As a  group we wanted to emphasise the emotions that our viewers would hopefully feel while watching our opening clip. We thought the best way to do this was to add some music to our film to create suspense and excitement. But, as we were not allowed to use any copyrighted material in our films, we would have to get written permission by the artist allowing us the right to include the material into our opening sequence. This left us with only a few decisions we could possibly contemplate. As a group, we could make a our own piece of music to add to our film, we could try to get in touch with the specific artist whose music we would want to use, and hopefully get the written permission we needed. Or we could find some copyright free music to fit into our film accordingly. This was what we decided to do. We began to search on the internet on such sights as www.StockMusicStore.com, www.akmmusic.co.uk and www.royaltyfreetunes.co.uk. After browsing through such sights, we could not find any appropriate music  to use in our film. We began to wonder whether we would ever find a tune that would fit with our opening sequence. Until, we got access to some college discs full of copyright free, usable material ranging from many music genres. We again, started to look for a tune that would run parallel with the first few shots of our opening sequence. We eventually found one that we altered accordingly to start at an exact point, then fading away after some time. This worked well with our film. We then decided to look for another piece of music, this time to create a sense of suspense and danger. We, again found a piece that we thought would do the job we wanted it to do,. The tune had a creepy sense to it making the viewers think something scary is going to happen very soon. As we hoped, both pieces of music worked well with our opening sequence and didn't clash at all. After all the hard work we did to find the sample music, I believe it was the best decision to use this music for our film.




By Joel Duxbury