Music Choice for Short Film

         The closer and closer we get to the filming and editing process means the more we have to start going through these crucial steps. One of those being the music choice for our film. This is going to be put in when we start editing but we should have a general idea of what music we’re going to use in advance. Which is why we’re starting the planning for music right now. When it comes to music we can’t just randomly use copyrighted music. In order to use copyrighted music we must seek permission from the creator. That involves a process of emailing them and their team and seeking approval. That may take weeks so for now we have decided to use free non-copyrighted music. However, if we change our mind we will go through the process of gaining approval for use of copyrighted music. Using non-copyrighted music is a much simpler process and there’s a lot of variety available for use. Last year we used non-copyrighted music for our intro to a film so we’re quite familiar with it. Seeing that our movie is a thriller we plan on using suspenseful music and noises in our film. We’ll search for these on YouTube and come up with what we think is the best choice for the film. Our first priority is figuring out what type of tone we want to set in the beginning of the film. The music choice will be key here seeing that will be the audiences first taste as to what they’re going to experience. The music choice is vital because it can enhance a scene to its full extent. It’ll be used during key scenes such as the climax and at the end. You don’t want to overdue it because it has to flow naturally. The editing process won’t be for a while so we have time but we now have a general idea of what we’ll be doing when it comes to music. I’m quite excited to start picking out the music!