Shoutout to the power of music.

Editing for my third project brief was both painful yet pleasing. The process was quite painful, but the outcome was quite pleasing. Honestly, I spent so much time finding royalty free music and reading licensing pages of those websites with royalty free music, that sometimes I even stayed up until 3am editing. I mean it’s not the first time that I’ve stayed up until the early hours of the morning. Trust me I have previous experience in that since high school got my sleeping patterns so messed up in so many ways.

But the amount of time and effort I put in trying to find the right music to use was such a pain in the gluteus maximus. And considering that I’ve only recently learned about incorporating royalty free music into my works and learning about Creative Commons licensing made the searching game twice as long as I had to make sure that the sites I was on and getting my music from were under CC licensing.

The reason that this was so hard for me was because I knew what kind of music I was looking for and I wasn’t finding any of it. I listened to so many songs that everything started to sound the same to me which made me more confused about what I was actually looking for. I overcame this by obviously choosing within the options that I had. When I finally came to this revelation, I paid close attention to what I was listening to and how it was making me feel. And from here on, I found the music that suited certain sequences the best. I guess that one of the other reasons that hindered my process of finding music for my film portrait was my consumption of copyrighted music. Obviously there’s a pretty big difference it terms of sound between the two kinds but it’s learning to differentiate between the two when producing my work.