The Sound of the Apocalypse

 For this project I wanted to have a song that was more subtle and without lyrics to let the characters and actions speak for themselves. Plus, I don't listen to a lot of music in general, so my frame of reference for more popular songs is small. With this knowledge I felt the best way to go was with a royalty free song. This also saves me time to coordinate with my actors and work on my editing skills. I spent days combing through songs on YouTube that were royalty free and exchanging search terms to get exactly what I was looking for. I came across a few songs that were close to what I wanted but not close enough. Through one of these almost perfect songs I found the YouTube channel "BreakingCopyright" that uploaded royalty free music from many independent artists. The channel had a wide variety of music so I went to the playlists firsts. The adventure playlist turned out to be too upbeat and the fantasy playlist was too whimsical. It came down to me skimming over the Epic playlist to eventually find what I was looking for. The song I chose, Dystopia by Per Kiilstofte, had underlying mystery, a rise for my high action sequence, and a fall afterward for my conversation in the bathroom. The song wasn't overexaggerated like most copyright free music and had depth that I needed for my film. Not to mention the great reviews in the comment section and description about the sense of suspense it created. Knowing this I immediately started looking into how I could put this song in my film. This process turned out to be very simple, as the song was made to be used in other YouTube videos. When I looked into licensing and copyright for the song I found it was totally free to use as long as I credited the composer in my videos description. I already planned to upload my film to YouTube to not only get it on the internet but for easier distribution. This will give publicity to myself and the composer, which is a more than fair deal in my opinion. I also ensured this song could be used with my editing software, so thankfully there will be no problems there. With a little editing on the timing of the musical cues, I believe this song will elevate my film immensely. 





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