A little bit about sound and music

When i think about sound and music, it is pretty hard to find a suitable sound file to suit your theme, scenes, actions, and mood. So whenever you plan something and it is already in perfect order, during the post production period, it is quite a fuss to look for suitable music files to suit the production. Moreover, all good original soundtracks are copyrighted (but i guess as students, we are allowed to use it for education sake?)

So what should we do then?

Anyway, I've always told myself that having to look for music is difficult because we do not have our own musician to compose a music file to suit our production (unless we have one, then it solves the problem). So rather than expecting the music to work for your product, why not have your product work with your existing music files?

Every music file composed by someone has a story of it's own. Although it is mean for a certain film, most of it has a stand alone meaning. It is indeed meant for a film, but what if you take an unfamiliar soundtrack of a film you have never seen, listen to it, and depict what the scene is like? It's only that simple! Work with the sound, work with your creativity, put a little twist in your story, turn it around to suit the sound, wala! Problem solved.