Copyright

There have been some questions about using music in your film opening and how this works with copyright.

Here is the exam board's position:

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

This means you can use copyright-free music and sound effects (eg the ones you'll find on iMovie) and music where copyright has expired.

Copyright expires on a piece of music 70 years after the person who wrote it died. So you could use Motzart but not Elvis Presley.