When creating a game trailer, music and sound are key ingredients. They can dramatically affect how your trailer is perceived by its viewers and having the correct music and sounds is essential to creating the right feel, flow and tone. The games industry can be a very exciting place for musicians and sound designers. Video games have become a new way of telling stories and game audio is fundamental to this. Through sound and music, a game can completely immerse a player in another place and time even in a completely new reality. The creative freedom to shape environments and moods is limited only by the machines technical capabilities and composer’s creativity. Although being creatively liberating, creating game audio can also be technically ambitious. Games …show more content…
The law regarding copyright draws a clear distinction between the copyright in the original musical composition and any subsequent recording. The underlying work can contain both lyrics and music, with both elements being separately protected by copyright. The first owner of each copyright piece is their respective author(s), but it should be noted that the lyrics and the music may have been written by a number of different people. I.e. a number of different people may have composed the song, which, if used in any game, will mean that each of these individuals’ authorization will be required. A fresh copyright arises when the content is finally recorded. Again, usually, the first owner of this copyright will not be the composer(s) of the underlying work but the person or persons who made the arrangements for the recording to take