Acquiring the audio

A key part of the editing stage was making sure that we had a piece of soundtrack that would fit to our Thriller opening in order to build up suspense for the big reveal at the end of the opening. Unfortunately, we did not possess the means to go out and record a piece of that kind of music ourselves as none of us owned an orchestra and anything that we did try and make ourselves would be too poor in quality to serve our needs.

This meant that we were going to have to acquire music from an artist, whether that be through requesting permission from a professional or through finding a website that offered free downloadable music that artists had put there for uses such as ours.

I started the search by looking for royalty free music, and in doing so came across the website:

freemusicarchive

When I got onto the website, I quickly discovered that within the archive - as they should have - there was a section for soundtrack music, which presented me with the following page:

I went through the various options that it presented, when I came across a song called 'Wounds' by an artist named 'Ketsa.' The name for this piece suggested to me that it would be the kind of thing that I should be looking for. Once I had listened to it, I knew that it would fit perfectly alongside the film that I was busy putting together. Once I knew that it was what I wanted, I selected the desired song which then presented me with the following page:

Seeing as it was royalty free, I was not required to pay nor seek permission for the usage of this piece of music, but seeing as it isn't mine - within the title sequence to our Thriller piece - I credited the artist as the maker of this piece: