Images, Video, and Sounds for Project Use

Sites where you can find images, video and audio content for your movies online. Includes websites to download copyright-free music and other digital media.

  • http://freeplaymusic.com - Royalty free, copyright free music to use in projects
  • http://findsounds.com - Sound effects. Find them, save them, add them to your movie.
  • http://www.kitzu.org/ - Collections of media (primarily images), categorized by subject, for your students to use in the classroom.
  • Soundzabound: Resource for Utah educators to find music for video projects. Access through www.uen.org (you need to log in).
  • The Open Video Project: The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
  • Ad Council Media: Find examples of Public Service Announcements and ad campaigns to share with your class.
  • Davis, CA School District: A Collection of websites containing video, audio, and other media available for use in student projects (primarily all public domain).
  • Create a Book Trailer: Lesson plans, templates, a rubric, and examples of book trailers to use in your classroom.
  • Musopen: Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. Musopen aims to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music.
  • Pics4learning: A useful website offering copyright-free pictures categorized in various topics, include ocean, animals, United States, and a bunch of others.
  • Library of Congress: Great resource to find historical images to use for projects.