Finding the right music.
That is – in creating promotion titles Intros and Motion Graphic with funky lights and stuff.
Music just makes it, it’s the icing on the cake and the cherry on the top. With the right music your hair will stand on end; with the wrong music you can loose interest – not be pull forward as the music and sound effects help drive the tension.
I get faced with this problem all the time (read it like the kid from Sixth Sense – how often are you faced with the problem? Allll the time…)
The problem is that we just don’t have a library of royalty free music or license to use some of those cool tracks. Like just recently with the promotion about the move we are going through as a Church; Dare You to Move by Switchfoot is perfect – but I can’t put that in a promo and post it on the web for all to see because it compromises copyright. So I am stuck using the cheesy jingles and bundles tracks that came with GarageBand and Logic Studio.
There are lots of options out there like DigitalJuice etc, and their prices are good, but they are just not Switchfoot, hey? Besides sometimes the shipping to South Africa is more that the cost of the product. ooooo.
working on a solution.
Howzit Phill…
During the creation of Carters Caffeine, I found huge archives of royalty free stuff on creativecommons.org
You can search music by genre and everything, they have some great stuff…
creativecommons will lead you to the owners site, and they will tell you what rights you have and how to properly credit the owner in your credits..
Go here:
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Yeah, that’s pretty cool.
just great when you have a massive collection on hand.
also without having to rummage around for a name to give credit for.
nice one
I feel for you Phill. Maybe we can order some royalty free music for the next person going over to the states to bring back. I’m going over again in April if no one goes before that. Nice pic of the guitar. I like it. Cheers
I was on the brink of getting some really cool stuff from Digital Juice until I found that the shipping was more than the product. They have awesome specials and if we could identify a US shipping address we could save hundreds of bucks.
the one product Sound FX IV has 55 GB of sound bytes – there is just no way we could try to search thru that much of data over the internet. Hmmm can’t seem to find the product on the website. But NPCC uses DigitalJuice; not sure how much or what for but it’s on their production FAQ page – so it should be good
Phil!! I am in the states, if you want anything let me know!!
definitely an option man, thanks
Just get the band to do the song live with the video behind. With the click track we could time it pretty well.
Just a suggestion.