My Opening Two Minute Film : Music...

I think that overall this has been one of the most challenging aspects of making my film (I know finding music sounds easy right don't be fooled its not!), the first issue which is one that everyone has had to overcome is the issue of finding not only free music but copyright free music. I also had to overcome the issue with finding the right tone for my opening, I wanted something meaningful which would bring emotion to the audience because of the family aspect but I also did not want to draw away to much from my crime-thriller genre. The music similar to the voice-over which is being narrated at the same time is non-diegetic (this means that the characters cannot hear and therefore do not respond to the sound), I also decided for the reason that the narration will be playing over the music to chose music that is just instrumental rather than containing words (this also meant my search for copy-right free music was a bit easier!). I looked on two websites the first is called 'Soundcloud' however I could not find any track that really stuck out to suiting my opening, I then looked on a site called 'Jamendo' which also allowed my access copy-right free music as long as I state who's music I am using. I chose to use one Autumn Prelude by Zero-project songs. I chose a piano instrumental, firstly not sure whether it would go with my opening I thought I would add it into my sequence to see how it sounded along with my narration (this is one example where trial and error is the best approach) and actually was surprised how well it did go, it especially "adds a level of emotion to the shots of the family photographs" (this was one of the feed back responses I got about my music from my class friends when viewing my rough cut. Overall I am pleased with the Music that I have found, I think it has really helped bring my film together and adds another level to my opening.

Accessing my non-digentic copyright free music

Website where I found my audio for my ident