Music

Once I had the showreel more or less locked down, I needed to start focusing on the music I would use.

I looked at several websites which had royalty free music such as...

http://www.openmusicarchive.org/

http://www.opsound.org.org/

http://www.jamendo.com/

http://www.soundclick.com/

http://www.sounddogs.com/


Many of their samples were 60 secs long at least but there was still a good collection of 30 sec clips.

I wanted the music to compliment the images as best I could and not just be cool music for it's own sake as this would detract from the focus of the images. Many showreels I found on the internet were often overpowered by their soundtrack which was often chosen because of the artists taste in music rather than it's suitability for the piece.

This became tricky as most of the short music clips were either too short or too long and I had to stretch or edit them to make them fit, this often distorted the music too much. It was quite a search until I found a piece of music that I thought worked well, not too fast or too slow and in sync with my showreel.