Production Blog:Music

 For my groups movie I have decided to utilize creative claims licensed music for the entirety of our film. This decision was not my first as I originally reached out to 14th Street Music for access to the creative works of their client Hanz Zimmer. However, this message was not met with any response and after multiple attempts I gave up on contacting the artist. This lead me to begin contacting other famous composers and musical artists for permission in utilizing their music however after multiple occurrences of my messages being ignored I began to search for non copy-right options. The first step I took in the process of finding copy-right free music I began researching the different forms of licensing music for the suspenseful portion of our video. After researching I decided that the best form of copy right free music to utilize would be creative commons licensed music. I believe that this would be the best music to utilize because it is fully free in terms of use and there is no need for referencing the original author. Then I took to YouTube to begin researching for musical pieces freely licensed under the creative commons. This process was extremely slow and was grueling to locate the correct music for the movie. This was because a majority of the music was extremely novelty and it did not capture the serious vibe desired for the project. For example a majority of the music which was produced by Kevin MacLeod was to comical however, due to its popularity in the YouTube ecosystem it was highly promoted by the algorithm. Eventually though I discovered the correct channel for locating music through successful search terms such as serious. This enabled me to eventually discover the correct music produced by Oldstuffforall on YouTube and the music was licensed by creative commons which allows me to freely use it. In the next phase of music discovery I began searching for thriller music on YouTube. First I began this process by looking for the same creative commons licensed music as the suspense music. I began this by simply searching on YouTube for serious exciting thriller music. While this technique may have worked for my previous music selection however, when searching for thriller music I was completely unsuccessful and I could not find the correct music. After this I began expanding my range of search by allowing content that is still copyright free but requires crediting. This was instantly more successful and I was able to locate much more versatile music. Shortly after this I located the correct music for my project produced by Epic Music World, which completed the soundtrack for my film.

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