over 9000 (royalty free songs if you register and pay with your first born)

Instead of doing an entire podcast revolving around the history of redheads, which could have taken some serious time to research and obtain interviews for, the history podcast will now be a segment of each podcast that is a FUN FACT! kind of scenario.  I think the actors/actresses episode will now also be incorporated into the podcasts as a "guess the natural redhead celebrity" game. Hopefully this enhances the other three episode themes and makes the podcasts a fun, easy listen, not just a very cut-and-dry information + interview format.

I spent a lot of time this week working on finding royalty free music to use as intros to the podcasts, as well as general background and additional sound for episode segments. My days looked something like this--

Although it's not too terribly difficult to find royalty free music, or music under a creative commons license, a lot of music out there is not necessarily right for a podcast. You wouldn't play a song with lyrics loudly in the background of an interview, for example, and unlike This American Life, I don't have the rights to use Yann Tiersen's instrumental pieces whenever I please.

Classical music should be easier, but with the way copyright laws work, certain performances of the classical public domain pieces are copyrighted. Finding anything from Vivaldi (a redhead composer!) was practically impossible unless I wanted to add the song to my cart and pay an extravagant fee.

Meeting with my director helped me find some great royalty free music without cost. Hopefully, with just a bit more searching and some pure luck, I'll have everything I need to give my podcasts some life.