Today, since we found out that our SD card is f*cked, or corrupted as I've been told to type, we didn't have much to do. All the other groups in our class are currently editing their footage, except for one boy who's watching football clips on YouTube (Shhhh!) and so we felt a bit useless. We decided to use the double period to iron out any missing blog entries and choose the music for our video.
We'd initially planned to use "Man-Eater" by Nelly Furtado, as the opening song to our film as it completely sums of Naomi's promiscuous character and shows her tendency of serial 'sleeping-around', the act that leads to her dilemma, mid-way through the film. However, we can't use established songs because of, you guessed it, copyright problems and no-one wants to be sued here.
Carolina, who's our music producer, first visited www.mobygratis.com (setting up an account), a free music provider without copyright. She'd previously investigated a variety of music available of the site and none was suitable whatsoever for our opening sequence and genre of the film. We were looking for an upbeat, pop-genre sounding clip as we aimed to set the cheerful, bubbly mood of the film during the introduction, getting the audience engaged in our opening sequence.
She next visited www.freeplay.com, which was again unsuccessful. Sam, with some free time, partnered Carolina in her search for a good music clip and they patrolled Youtube.com for any non-copyrighted music clips they could use. However, there weren't any with a decent pop-genre pieces we could use or they were too short. They then investigated the possibility of purchasing a clip on www.royaltyfreemusic.com, however, the ideal clip was priced at $99.00 (WAY TOO MUCH!!!)
Finally, Mr Roberts led them to Garage Band, and they looked through a variety of clips, finally settling on 'Yearbook Long', a perfect piece, aptly fitting our genre. Carolina and Sam edited the clip on Garage Band so it was a continuous 2 minute piece.
Mr Roberts also found a piece on www.freeplay.com they'd previously not heard and it is another piece which reflects the romantic-comedy genre of our opening sequence through its pop genre and upbeat, bubbly mood we want the audience to feel when first watching our clip. With two potential pieces available, we've decided to hold onto both and chose whichever fits best with the action of the clip. I transferred the music into Final Cut Pro and made them into film clips, so they could be seen on our blogs.
Clip 1 - "Clear"
Clip 2 - "Yearbook Long"
Both music clips are very similar, aside from a slight key change and drum solo opening in one of them. However, they are both what I can imagine being used in the opening sequence and general background music of most romantic-comedies and are fairly catchy (I find myself subconsciously tapping along to the beat while I'm working, etc). Although its slightly repetitive, it'll last two minutes and most people will be occupied with the action on the screen, and its more of a mood-setter than anything to thoroughly focus on.
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