Music & Sound

Copyright and Copyright Free Music

We were assigned a task to add music to a clip from a teen movie. The clip we got was extracted from Drum line. For this task it was important that we got copyright free music as there are many soundtracks on the internet which are copyrighted and not open for public use. Copyright gives the creator of a film, music or a book the legal rights to control who uses the product and how it is distributed. If a copyrighted soundtrack is used it is breaking the law and we could get sued.

Creative Commons

Creative commons is a website which allows people to expand the range of creative work and to build upon legally and share. By entering a search query such as 'Dance' it searches for that type of music. There are many options within each category to see which ones are copyright and not however creative commons make it easy buy having a download button where the song is copyright free.  When looking for the music we needed to make sure the clip fit with the scenes. For example, it would be easy to just get any dance track and make that our sound however there was more to that as when the beat dropped it needed to be in line with the scene itself and the speed of the soundtrack was also important.

Foley Sound 

Within our clip we incorporated foley sound which is a reproduction of everyday sound effects. Our clip consists of many scenes which need foley sounds, since our clip was silent we needed to incorporate foley sounds such as the crowed making noise and drums. The purpose of the foley music is so a film does not sound empty and hollow foley can ale be used to enhance comedy or action scenes. We used a variety of foley such as crickets for the scene outside the campus, another foley sound we used was snoring for the inside of the bedrooms before the last foley, the drums. Each of these sounds make the clip come alive and give it an authentic sound. 

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