Avoiding Copyright

Finding Sounds

Welcome back, everyone! As we are finalizing editing, we need to include various sounds to get the most out of our film. Sounds, including but not limited to score, diegetic sound, and sound effects are very important to empowering the movie. However, a major problem arises due to copyright laws in this country and around the world:

For the most part, many songs used in Hollywood movies are only included after formal permissions and agreements are granted between the owners of the material and the movie company. As a high school student, we obviously cannot achieve this, so our music options are heavily limited to rummaging the internet for artists who are kind enough to NOT license their products. An alternative would be making the sounds ourselves as well.

With that in mind, my group opted to dedicate time to search YouTube for copyright free music that fits our needs, such as motivational music during our montage to go with the mindset of Agent Eugene. Though we have not found a perfect song, we eventually all agreed on a song to be good enough to match the vibe and emotion of the scene. However, finding copyright free sound effects was a harder task. We decided we will do a quick search for certain sound effects, and if we can’t find an effect that meets our needs, we will commit to doing foley stages.