Free Music for Commercial Use Great for monetized YouTube Videos

Why?

Lately I've been looking for a good place for free music to use commercially on my YouTube

Channel. If you want to make money off of videos with music in them, you need a commercial license for the music. Normally you have to pay a lot of money for these licenses. I found a free site where it's easy to find music with free commercial licenses.

Where?

The site is called soundcloud. It has a huge selection of music. Check it out here!

How?

The way to find the free commercially licensed music is simple. First, find the column with search at the top. Second, click sound (it's under everything) Third, go down to filter results. Go to the third item and click "to use commercially" Fourth, search for what you want using the big search bar.

Conclusion

I hope this helps! If you have a better site please share it in the comments. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments, or on twitter @creativevideo12

A How to to Using a Shot List

Why?

Using a shot list becomes easy over time, and it makes your production day(s) much easier and simpler. I use a shot lists instead of story boards, but you can chose to do both, just a story board, or just a shot list. To use a shot list you must have two things. First, you need a shot list template. Second you need to know how to write. I'm pretty sure you can all manage this. 

How to use a Basic shot list

The information you need to add to your shot list varies. The key things you want to add to your basic shot list are the shot numbers, shot type/ angle (e.g wide portrait, close portrait....etc), and action. You could use the image next to this paragraph for a basic shot list.

How to use a more inclusive shot list

If you want a more inclusive shot list use this one. For the more inclusive shot list you'll want. Your scene #, shot #, whether it's interior or exterior, shot type, location of the shot, description of the shot, and then any additional comments.

Tips

The shot list right here is the one that I use. However, I don't always fill in all of the blanks.

It's a good idea to have a folder to put your shot lists into. It's nice to have some sort of divider in between your different videos, and then also have each videos shot lists in order of the days of shooting. Remember that when your writing your shot list you want to put the shots in the order you'll shoot, not the order that you'll see in the final edit. 

Conclusion

I hope this helps! If you have a better shot list, or any other tips please leave them in the comment section or ask me on twitter @creativevideo12.

Great Free Classes for any Beginning Filmmaker

Online Classes 

Alright, online classes are really starting to take off. Many more families are able to homeschool because of this. Many college students are able to hold a full time job close to home, and also study as full time students. Now there is a place to take free online classes for filmmaking.

Filmmaking site

The name of the site is called coursera. Here is a list of their free classes.

Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics

The Camera Never Lies

Introduction to Music Production

The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color

Introduction to Digital Sound Design

Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

This is the full list of every class they offer.

Conclusion

If you think this will help others you can share it with them. If you have another site for free filmmaking classes, please share in the comments.