Audio SFX and Music
How important are sound effects?
Freddie Wong from Rocketjump thinks they are your BEST and EASIEST way of making a small production feel EPIC
SFX (SOUND EFFECTS)
can be found in a few places:
The School's HANDOUT Servers
The Internet
By your OWN original FOLEY effects
1. The HANDOUT SERVER
We have literally HUNDREDS of sound effects available on our HANDOUTS server for you to use in your projects.
Go to MY COMPUTER - "McCrae Documents" - HANDOUTS
Look for MAY - "ASSETS - Audio SFX" and you'll find all sorts of categories of sound effect
2. The INTERNET
Any WAV, AIFF or MP3 you can find on the web can be downloaded and included in your projects.
Do a google search for what you're looking for, or look in websites like
3. FOLEY
Foley effects are sound effects that YOU record specifically for your audio project. In films, they include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc
LICENSE FREE MUSIC
MUSIC you use in your projects should be LICENSE FREE - learn about Creative Commons: A system by which artists provide you with assets that you are WELCOME TO USE IN YOUR PROJECTS, subject to specific conditions (like giving them credit)
Why bother using CC instead of "popular" music?
No complications - The assets are typically ROYALTY FREE
YouTube will not "censor" your uploaded projects
No one will challenge the legality of your work if you submit it to a contest or sell it to a client
Creative Ethics - Your success is legitimately yours, and those you give credit to
Here are a few sources of Royalty Free Music:
Incompetech.com for royalty free music
YouTube's Creator Studio has an AUDIO SECTION