Add a splash of audio-visual variety
Add a splash of variety to your assignments and anything else you produce with images, audio, and video resources licensed for you to crop and use in your work, ready for you to download and use.
Almost everything you will find online is heavily protected by copyright, leaving you liable to lawsuits for intellectual property rights infringement if you copy, adapt, build upon or otherwise use them without the rights owners’ informed consent, and I know from experience that rights owners are often desperately hard to track down. Images and video clips you find online have often been copied unlawfully several times before you get to them, so even if the person or company who owns the rights would happily license you to use a clip, finding out who to ask is often incredibly hard, so having resources that have been licensed already so you need do nothing but turn up and help yourself is something of a breath of fresh air.
Check out our premium audio-visual resources
Check out all the resources available to everyone on the Library website under Using Resources > Audio Visual Resources. Animation, illustration and a few other students have access to even more special resources like the Rhino House animation studio but these resources on the Library website are available for absolutely everyone and are good for most things.
Looking for something else?
There are a number of websites offering free and open source licensed still images and audio tracks beyond our premium subscription resources, which is handy to know if you are just graduating into a creative field. Here’s a few of my favourites.
Free image sites
- Pixabay
- Pexels
- Unsplash
- Adobe Stock
- FreePik
- Canva
- Free Images
- Open Spaces Society (images of landscapes and rural life)
- Creative Commons Search
- Wikimedia Commons
Free audio sites
- Bensound
- SoundCloud
- Pixabay Music
- UpBeat
- Free Music Archive
- SoundStripe
- Epidemic Sound
- Artlist
- YouTube – royalty free music
Free video clip sites
Copyright SFX for videos
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