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Music in e-learning
Good Afternoon - I have a client wishing for music to be used within their e-learning module we are creating for them. A few questions:
1. Is music a good asset to include in e-learning or a distr...
As a composer studying an MA Professional Media Composition, is bespoke music rather than royalty free music used very much in elearning courses? If it is, which sectors of the elearning market are worth exploring?
thankyou
Frank, I don't think bespoke music is used much (like, basically not at all) unless the instructional designer happens to have the skills to compose the music on his or her own.
My sense is that the market size for composers offering to create custom music for an e-learning course would be vanishingly small. The trend in the industry is toward single-person production, where one person is responsible for all aspects of design and development.
About the only elements that still get outsourced to specialists are voice-over narration (though many IDs record their own) or highly technical elements like medical animations.
Thanks very much Ray for your insight. I thought it would be worth investigating given the massive size of the elearning market.
Frank
