P1. Use of music in film - legal considerations

Publishing Rights

Its where you create and write your own song and you publish it. Done that you own the song.

Recording Rights

How would you go about clearing a piece of music for use in films?

You can pay a sum of money to the owner of a song which is a 'buyout' therefore you don't have to pay royalties right every time you use that song in your sequence of film.

Can you use music in your film if the owner is dead?

No you can't unless you have paid for the rights and so on. But what you can do is use music from the owner who has died seventy years ago or more.

Incidental Music

Incidental music is also called score or soundtrack. This is what plays on the background of a scene which pretty much fills up the space and creates an emotion between the characters.
Incidental music is something the characters can't hear as its added after the scene of film is shot. This is only used to create meaning to the audience. 


Creative Commons


Attribution
CC BY:

As long as they credit you for the original piece you are allowed to play around with the sound and do whatever you want with it.

Attribution ShareAlike CC BY-SA:

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND:

Anyone can use this as long as you get credit for this.



Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC:

Anyone can use this and play around with it but it is used for non commercial stuff, therefore if you wrote a song it can't be used in a film or anything where someone else gets money out of it.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA:

Anyone can use this and play around with it but it can't be used commercially either unless you get credit for it and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND:

This is the most restrictive one out of the six and people can download your stuff and share it with people yet they can't charge you for using it.




Even if the composer is dead you cannot whatsoever use their piece as you still have to pay rights for publishing and whoever performed it.

Incidental Music:
Incidental music is the kind of music tat is created for a film or a play and it is played on the background of a situation to create or enhance an specific atmosphere.

It is often use in tv series, films and even video games. The term used for this is often called a 'soundtrack' or 'score'

P.1 Dark Knight- Composing music

Hans Zimmer made the soundtrack and Christopher Nolan listened to the whole piece of music Hans did and said that the soundtrack was in that piece somewhere.
Hans used razor to create some of the sounds along with some guitar into it.

Hans said wanted to make something scary and something that will everyone hate for when the joker comes on the screen. 
There wasn't a limit of how dark the theme song would be. If hans made a really dark theme Christopher would just push him to make it even more darker so there was no conflict between them two when it came to creating a theme song or the film.
Zimmer said that he had the idea of using razzorblades, piano wire and pencil tapping floors and tables.
Noa stated that Zimmer knew the characters really well and he had a really well understatement of punk and the feel of the characters.

I personally think that the final soundtrack works great because it sounds mysterious and at the same time it creates an eerie atmosphere and makes you feel somehow uncomfortable.
He managed to do what he wanted great.

P.1 Schedule

P.1 Music and timeline analysis of audio

P.1 The power of the mind completed

P.1 Premiere Pro

The project it is nearly doe and as you can see i have added a lot of audio into this project such as audio, dialogue, music and ambient music.
I have made the title which starts off the screen and ends off the screen too. It doesn't drag on for too long but it gives enough time for people to be able to read it which is what i wanted.

P.1 After Effects 2

The first thing i did was to duplicated the layer of the clip so i could draw a mask around it with the rotobrush tool which works exactly the same as the pen tool but it makes it easier to select something. 
I then added the effect of glow to make it glow (on the new layer)
I changed the colour of the glow and also adjusted the radius and so on to make it look how i wanted it to look
Also i made it smooth and blur on the edges as they were a bit rough and it didn't look natural.
Also i played around with the feather and the opacity and i didn't want jasper's hand glowing for the whole clip, i only needed it to glow right at the end.

P.1 After Effects

This is one of my effects which the functio of thi is to have the bubbles appearing one by one as you can see in the images below.

 I out the first bubble first by putting the opacity to 0% then whenever i wanted the first bubble to appear i will move the opacity up for example to 60% as i didnt want it to go up to 100% as it looked a bit fake.

 Then after the first bubble appears, i changed the opacity of the second bubble. I did exactly the same process for the second bubble.
I changed the opacity for this one after the first bubble has appeared to give it the effect of a thought coming.

For the last one i did exactly the same process but changing the opacity later on when the clip is about to end.

P.1 Progress of the power of the mind project

P.1 Organising files

P.1 Appraising the rough cut

Audio

I added some sound effects such as the clock ticking, the background noise, the pen scribbling on the piece of paper etc... I think that worked well as it was on time with the action that was happening on the scene and you could understand what you were listening to and it made the atmosphere complete.
What i need to do is add the rest of the dialogue as there are some dialogue from the girl missing as we recorded the sound right after the deadline.

Special Effects

The strengths of the after effects being used in my project is that it worked well and it flowed with the story line so the after effect didn't come out of nowhere. The weakness is that there is not sound to it yet therefore its all quiet when it happens so its not as effective. 

Sequence

The set dressing was the same for all the clips therefore it made sense, i personally think the acting was okay, none of them took drama therefore we weren;t expecting professional but it turned out better than i thought it would. The narrative will make sense after i've added all the clips as there was some clips missing when the rough cut was shown. It is entertaining as there was different variety of shots and most of them are quick so you're not staring at the same scene for ages as that could get quiet boring.

P.1 Rough Cut Feedback

P.1 Production Meeting

Paula

Alex

Louis

Me and alex got the same answer for the first one. It made sense but there were some missing clips.

We only used one special effect so maybe add more in our next project.

The audio was really effective in alex's video for example when hes thinking. I had some missing audio therefore it didnt make too much sense.

2 people said that the clock ticking and the pen scribbling was really effective.

We should add some music to our videos

P.1 Pictures of The Fluffy Butterflies filming

P.1 Rough Cut

P1. Use of music - legal considerations

Even if the composer is dead you cannot whatsoever use their piece as you still have to pay rights for publishing and whoever performed it.

incidental Music:

Incidental music is the kind of music tat is created for a film or a play and it is played on the background of a situation to create or enhance an specific atmosphere.
It is often use in tv series, films and even video games. The term used for this is often called a 'soundtrack' or 'score'

P.1 Premiere Pro

 I have turned the volume off as im going to get sounds from freesound.org and we are going to record their voices with a microphone and then add it on onto our timeline therefore you cant hear the noises on the background.

 I added some sounds from the website and also some parts of the conversation but we still need to record some sounds and also record some footage which is why i have left a gap in between.

The noises on the background from freesound.org is the first clip on audio 4 which i have used the pen tool to make it louder and bring it down again depending if there was someone talking. Also the first clip on audio 6 is the sound of Ruby writing on the piece of paper. The first one on audio 5 is the clock ticking on the wall. 
So every clip i thought it had sound or could have some sound to make it more dramatic ive added it.

P.1 The Fluffy Butterflies Major Problem of the project

Our major problem is that we havent done the after effects yet and we only have a couple of days to do it before the rough cut. We need to do the after effects in 3 different shots therefore we need to record the footage as soon as we can so we can add it on to premiere otherwise its not going to be ready for our rough cut. 

P.1 Filming

P.1 Dear Jasper Letter

I did the letter that Ruby drops on the floor for our short film.