AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Have experience in both video and film, plus videotape editing, archiving, and remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Not too familiar with all the various Hd formats although I did operate an HD B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's, plus several dozen super-8 filmmaking awards and for video productions as well.
I currently offer YouTube uploading tutoring that includes a critique and technical review as well. If you live in Los Angeles and would like to learn more about this educational service send an email to info at slingshotpro.com
Recently finished cinematography work on the film Dali, Dali, Dali which is now in post production.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
Question Is classical music copyrighted? I'm looking for non copyrighted music for a short film project. Any idea where I can find it? I'd appreciate any information about this!
Answer This is another great question! I did some additional research and the same old problems seem to still exist. Although there are huge databases of "free music", it is only "free" if you are NOT going to use the music to make money. I consider that a trap. You add the "free" music to your film since you don't plan on charging admission or selling it, you enter your film in a festival and one of the judges is also a distributor who wants to distribute your film, but you will not be able to accommodate them if you used music that was free but only free for non-profit situations.
Then there is "buyout" music. You buy this music once and you then own the rights for your movie, presumably for all markets??? (definitely read the fine print when it comes to crediting the music, the duration you will own the rights, and if you can sell your film without having to cough up additional money.) Keep in mind you are still paying somebody something up front for this music whether or not you sell your film!
As for classical music, even public domain music had to be performed, and usually you have to pay the people that created and own the recording!
Publicdomain.org will then provide you with more links to check out. I did not check out all the links so I hope they are not a scam. Always take the position that one day your project may be headed for the 5,000th cable channel, a channel specifically dedicated to yellow steam engine trains that were solar powered and perhaps you have unique footage and a unique film that you made about yellow solar powered steam engine trains. What if the distributor fell in love with the music you originally put on your project, but you now discover you don't own the rights to that music if you plan on selling your project....
It can actually be annoying to a distributor when they find out that the completed film that they thought was available for purchase has to first be noticeably changed so that the film can legally be sold and distributed.
You may discover that your local college has an orchestra and for a modest "donation" perhaps they will perform a public domain piece of music for you. As long as no one in the orchestra is in a union and the music is public domain, and you professionally recorded the performance, and none of the performers made a glaring error, you may be able to use that piece of music in your film. But alas, you may be getting what you pay for.
But once again, the music is free to listen to and even download as long you don't profit from it. You may not want a live audience recording. On the other hand, who knows, maybe the owners of the music may want to make a deal.
