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Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by erikpukinskis »

vanderZwan wrote: post #41
crazygringo wrote: post #20

Wow, this is one of the cleverest ideas I've seen in a long time. As far as I can tell, they've put together a wide-ranging set of fairly generic-sounding movie music (generic = good, so it doesn't call attention to itself)... but composed it in a way that the three parameters (momentum, depth, power) simply map to different volume levels of the underlying instrumental tracks -- but all perfectly tuned to always prod…

> After all, most films don't need recognizable motifs, they just need music to tell us how to feel Not trying to pick a fight with you - I agree with your comment overall, but this is a culturally learned thing, very specific to Western movies and TV-series, and it is actually mildly infuriating to me. It is one thing to complement the emotions present in a scene, but being told what to feel is basically a cheap way…

Different viewers are different. You want to experience a story when you see a movie, but other people want to be emotionally numbed. Still others want to be reassured they know how they’re supposed to feel about things.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by shams93 »

crazygringo wrote: post #20

Wow, this is one of the cleverest ideas I've seen in a long time. As far as I can tell, they've put together a wide-ranging set of fairly generic-sounding movie music (generic = good, so it doesn't call attention to itself)... but composed it in a way that the three parameters (momentum, depth, power) simply map to different volume levels of the underlying instrumental tracks -- but all perfectly tuned to always prod…

Yeah you don't have to use machine learning for this type of site there are so many aspiring musicians on the web with home studios good old fashioned crowd sourcing will generally give you a better result than machine learning for this kind of site.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by ComodoHacker »

brudgers wrote: post #36

Looking around the site, I was not able to find clear license terms that related to copyright of the actual music tracks produced. I am not a lawyer, but to me it is critical that copyright (and not royalties) is clearly spelled out. The product lives in an uncanny valley between clear copyright interests in musical compositions and software generated derivative works modified by end user input. The only legal inform…

Also open air broadcasting isn't mentioned anywhere in plan descriptions.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by vanderZwan »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #51
vanderZwan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> After all, most films don't need recognizable motifs, they just need music to tell us how to feel Not trying to pick a fight with you - I agree with your comment overall, but this is a culturally learned thing, very specific to Western movies and TV-series, and it is actually mildly infuriating to me. It is one thing to complement the emotions present in a scene, but being told what to feel is basically a cheap way…

Different viewers are different. You want to experience a story when you see a movie, but other people want to be emotionally numbed. Still others want to be reassured they know how they’re supposed to feel about things.

Funny enough, that difference in needs when deciding what to watch (if anything at all) has turned out to be one of the best indicators for whether or not to keep dating someone for me.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by vanderZwan »

crazygringo wrote: post #47
vanderZwan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> After all, most films don't need recognizable motifs, they just need music to tell us how to feel Not trying to pick a fight with you - I agree with your comment overall, but this is a culturally learned thing, very specific to Western movies and TV-series, and it is actually mildly infuriating to me. It is one thing to complement the emotions present in a scene, but being told what to feel is basically a cheap way…

I think music is just a tool -- it can be used badly or it can be used well. Different media are able to show different things -- novels show interior thoughts, plays need to focus mainly on dialog, and movies/TV are largely driven by images. Particularly, movies and TV have a huge challenge in communicating the interior thoughts of characters -- this is one of the first things you learn in screenwriting, when a part…

> But of course it can be a crutch for bad acting too -- if the actor is supposed to be communicating nervousness but isn't, so the music does it for them.

Ironically, animation seems to be a worse offender than regular movies. And sometimes the story itself simply isn't good to begin with, and does not give any decent justification for being emotionally invested in the main characters.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by combatentropy »

So if I understand the license, I pay $10 a month for access to the music. If I cancel my subscription, I can keep using the music I already downloaded. For example, I would not have to erase it from a Youtube video I published. The video and its music can stay online forever. Is that right?

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by methodin »

crazygringo wrote: post #20

Wow, this is one of the cleverest ideas I've seen in a long time. As far as I can tell, they've put together a wide-ranging set of fairly generic-sounding movie music (generic = good, so it doesn't call attention to itself)... but composed it in a way that the three parameters (momentum, depth, power) simply map to different volume levels of the underlying instrumental tracks -- but all perfectly tuned to always prod…

Music has a very important role in a movie - if you cut that out and replace it with generic music you'd be left with films with great acting that feel muted and listless. I'm not sure you quite understand how much work goes into a score and how much the director's, among others, views and desires affect that score.
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