Creative Commons

I originally planned to compose my own music for the movie, but I hit a snag. The snag is that I am not really a particularly muscial person. The tune I wrote years ago just didn't feel right, so I suddenly found myself in a bit of a pickle. Since it is my plan to upload my finished piece to the the Ten Second Film Festival, I need something that I can use. Which means, nothing commercially available.

Or does it?

Suddenly, I remembered something quite important. CREATIVE COMMONS! This wonderful organisation basically allows people to share anything that has this license attached. Well, not everything, but an awful lot of it. (I first heard about this a couple of years ago, and made the decision at the time that everything I create would be available under such a license.) All you have to do in most cases is credit the creator, and they are happy for you to share, use, edit, sample ... pretty much anything. So, that solves that!

After scouring the various websites, I have settled on the track 'Discreet Homecoming' by _ghost. It has almost exactly the feel I wanted to convey. All I need to do now is to find the perfect 10 second section to use alongside my finished edit.