From the course: Introduction to Music in Film and Video
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Choosing your music options: Create your own, license preexisting music, or hire a composer
From the course: Introduction to Music in Film and Video
Choosing your music options: Create your own, license preexisting music, or hire a composer
- Once you have a good understanding of the purpose of your film, and each scene, and all major changes that occur, it's time to dig in and tackle your music plan, about how to get the music and how to use it. I'll first be talking about how things usually work when a composer isn't part of the picture, and then we'll move forward and talk briefly about using a composer. And this movie is a bit of a hodge podge introduction of topics. We'll be getting into much more specifics in chapters three and four of this course. Okay, so for films not using a composer, the editor or music editor has several options for creating or finding various selections of music. First, you can create your own music, even if you're not necessarily a professional musician or composer. There are various music production software packages called digital audio workstations, or DAWs, where you're able to create music by playing your own music, using premade loops, as well as a wider array of instrumental effects,…
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