Awesome (FREE) Music Resource

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FreeplayMusic.com

This website comes courtesy of Kevin Durham in my third period. He found one of the best music sound effects websites I’ve ever seen. No joke. Typically services like the one on this site require you to sign up and then they ask for your email address. Which they then use to spam your email account for the rest of your life. This one doesn’t. And that is truly a beautiful thing. Free music. From the few tracks I downloaded this isn’t the typical free music you usually get either. This is full band with real instrumentation.

Aside from the fact that they don’t harvest email addresses, one of the features of this site that places it way above most other sites is that you can search by STYLE and FEEL. So… say you have a really dramatic scene and you think it would go well with an “Acid Jazz” type song….they have a category for that….and not only that, but there are a whopping 11 free songs in that category (it may not seem like much, but when you typically only use snippets of songs, you don’t really need much).

Some FEEL categories I liked:

Chill/Laid Back
Dark/Mysterious
Driving
Ethereal
Epic

So check out this site if you are looking for that perfect background music or need a song that is free of copyright.

You Tube Practice Edits

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Here is a direct link (hopefully) to all of the practice edits on you tube in case any of the ones on this page do not work.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D21DC71122E0D194

Editing Practice Uploads

Well….it took me a while :) , but I got all of the finished videos online at YouTube. Check out the links below…

Overflow

Tu Madre

3 on 3 Productions

Xclusive Productions

Stick it to the Man

Half and Half

Big Vid

Six Chix Flix

Beat ‘Em Down

Plus 2 Inc.

Movie Group

Get it Wet Productions

Divas

Ace of Spades

The Assignment:

Students had to take footage and arrange it into a coherent short scene. They also needed a Title and Credits, A Sound Effect and a Video Effect.

Each group was able to make their own decisions and had complete control over their artistic direction.

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