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How to Secure & Buy Music for Your Film

There are different options for obtaining music for your film. The most common options are: 1.    Getting music composed specifically for your film 2.    Getting music that is already completed and using it in your film 3.    Getting royalty free music that gives you non-exclusive rights to use a song in a particular fashion. These three options make up the main paths for obtaining music for your films. The first option of using music specifically composed for your movie can be beneficia...

Incorporating Music into Your Videos and Films

Music and all audio components for that matter, are debatably as important as the video component of your film. Music helps set the tone and in fact can often set the tone better than your visual images. When your visuals are combined with sound effects and music, you’ll have your film´s overall tone. As you’ve noticed, when you’re working in your NLE system you’re already starting to work with various layers. In this blog post, we’re now going to discuss the interaction between your video an...

Filmmaking: Sound & Music

In this blog post we’re going to discuss the process of securing music rights for your movie as well as affordable alternatives to getting music composed specifically for your film. We’ll also discuss how to get music for your films for free and at affordable rates of $10 - $20 / song. Following these topics we will begin our discussion on how music and video merge together to create a certain tone. Since you have already learned about editing and cinematography, we’re now going to throw anot...

What is the difference between progressive and interlaced Scanning?

There has been a lot of talk recently about the differences between interlaced and progressive scanning in digital video. This article isn’t meant to be an in depth technical explanation of the specific details, but instead a brief explanation of the most important points for filmmakers who are not interested in the in depth technical explanation but instead are interested in how the two shooting standards will have an impact on their films. If you decide to do further research on this subjec...