Music Copyright

After finding, researching and analysing suitable music for a backing soundtrack for our film, we finalised on James Blake's "I Only Know (What I Know Now.)" However we were then informed of the syllabus specification advising us that we are to use copyright free music or have permission for our use of music. We then went ahead and contacted various important authorities of James Blake's record labels. Below are the screenshots of evidence for this. We have also included Copyright recognition in our ending credits and also on my ancillary task - I included the logo of A&M Records on my poster (one of James Blake's record label owners).

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• However rather than simply pasting the song alongside our film clips; as we have progressively edited, we have trimmed and edited parts of his song and made our own compilation. For example, parts of the beginning of the song have been repositioned and reconstructed among our timeline of clips as have other parts of the song where we feel that particular piece of audio is applicable to the type of shot or mood we are looking to convey. 
• Moreover, we have added in Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro's selection of sounds such as footsteps, wind and crowds talking. 
• We also downloaded a copyright free piano track from www.freesound.org which we overlaid on top of the finishing rolling credits.
• For the clip of the Private Investigator's voice sounding like a hallucination in The Husband's head - we used a software programme called Audacity to distort the audio from the video clip to make it echo. 
• Throughout the editing we made many changes to sounds, their positioning, volume, fading in/out, layering and effects such as echo's were used too. I really feel like we have paid as much attention to the sound as we have the film itself and I think this is important, as our audience can use the music to help them feel more involved in the narrative. Creating a sense of reality and portraying a believable atmosphere, mood and tension between characters is only heightened through the use of effective sounds.

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