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AI music for documentaries

Documentary music has to respect the subject. It supports narration and interviews, signals shifts in tone and stays out of the way of facts.

Prompt for documentaries0/600

Length

Long beds of 2 to 5 minutes and shorter transition cues.

Levels and loudness

Keep music low under speech and avoid sharp transients that distract from interviews.

Licensing

Paid plans cover broadcast and streaming documentaries; Creator and Studio cover client productions. The full terms are on the licensing page.

A workflow that works

  1. Group scenes by tone
  2. Generate one bed per tone
  3. Use a pulse track for montage sections
  4. Bring the theme back at the end
Avoid strongly emotional music under factual claims. It can feel manipulative.

Prompts for documentaries

Documentary underscore, soft piano and subtle synth pulse, neutral and thoughtful, 3 minutes
Nature documentary opening, sweeping strings and woodwinds, sense of scale
Investigative documentary, low ticking pulse, muted strings, quietly tense