Creative Common: Sound Practice

To learn how to use Creative Common to download music, we used a scene from Higher Learning that requires four different types of music to establish characters, emotions and locations. The video we used had no music and was only footage, therefore we relied on mise-en-scene and the characters themselves to determine the type of music to use in each scene. The media department of our college had made a tutorial video for us students, so we knew how to use Creative Commons properly keeping in mind with things like licensing and copyright issues. We searched for sounds and musics that can relate to different parts go the scene and we put it in place using Final cut pro. We had to use either SoundCloud, Jamendo or ccMixter. We think that this is a good piece of work for our first attempt.

The four different pieces of music we used included:

• Elevator music (we got this music from Jamendo)
  This music could be used to represent travelling and the music shows that something may be coming.

• Old school hip-hop/RnB music (music for this was for the first male character, we shoe this in relation to stereotypes and own knowledge of the music listened to in the time period, music was obtained from SoundCloud)
  This music creates an urban feeling and represents the old hiphop era.

• Calm relaxing, bubbly music (This was the female character, music was obtained from SoundCloud)
  This creates a calm feeling are represents a laid back character.

• Hard punk rock music (this music was used for the final male character, from the clothes he wore to the wallpapers he was posting on the walls to help with the possible music. Music for this character's scene was also taken from SoundCloud)
  This represents a rough, carefree character and sets a harsh feeling.