Usually for the writing of academic papers, you are expected to follow a convention for citing a record, tape, CD. You would follow the MLA system.
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For the purpose of animation courses and credits on screen for your assignments, it is acceptable to employ a variation of the MLA method, as long as the citation includes the same important information:
- Name of the creative artist (writer, musician, etc.)
- Title of the piece (written in “Parentheses”)
- Title of the album (written in Italics)
- Published format (e.g., CD, MP3, LP, Audiocassette, etc.)
- Publisher
- Copyright date
For example:
Music used in this animated piece:
Phil Smith, “The Comeuppance”
Performed by Phil Smith & Corsage
From the CD, What the New World Teaches the Old
Published on Emblem Records, 2002
If you utilize sound effects from on-line sources such as Freesound <freesound.org> you must attribute the source of the material. Sites like these publish information and requirements for citing courses, under Creative Commons standards.
For example, from Freesound, here is the section that explains:
An Important Note
With regard to film credits, do not list the names and file names of the individual sound effects that you use. By doing so, you will have longer credits than your film. Instead, you are meant to list the name of the collection (similar to a compact disk) and the publisher. To attribute the actual clips that you download from a site, you will need to organize an additional list of citations, as a kind of bibliography. Those details can be found in:
Expectations for Crediting / Attributing On-line Sound Effects
For the purposes of projects that are solely assignments for courses, it is not enough to only indicate “Sounds from Freesound.” You must do more. Instead, you should appropriately attribute the sources, with something like this:
This animated piece uses many sounds from Freesound at www.freesound.org
Courtesy of:
User_name_01
User_name_02
User_name_03
Accessed April 2021
For more complex and advanced- and senior-level projects, you must follow the criteria on the Freesound site.
Expectations for Crediting / Attributing Sound Ideas Effects Library
For the purposes of projects that are solely assignments for courses, you should attribute appropriately, including the titles of the collections of where effects came from.
For example:
- Series 1000 General SFX Library (1001-1028)
- Art of Foley Sound (FS-01 – FS-10)
- BBC SFX Library (BBC01-BBC60)
- And so on
The list of collections in the Sound Ideas Sound Effects Library at Emily Carr is here.
The attribution in your credits should look like this:
This animated piece uses many sounds from the Sound Ideas collection at www.sound-ideas.com
Sound Effects, Royalty Free Music & Production Elements, including:
Art of Foley Sound (FS-01 – FS-10)
BBC SFX Library (BBC01-BBC60)
Accessed April 2021
