Music Choice

 Hello, it's Renato Corrales back with another blog. Today I will be talking about the selection process for the music for our movie. When it came to choosing the music, there were a few rules. Knowing the movie has to be a length of 1:55 max, we knew the song could not be long. Due to the song also not taking up the whole song, we need a short part of the song. This part would need to be a snippet that fits well with our movie's theme. Talking about the theme, we also wanted a song that was hype, something that a boxer would listen to. We searched for different songs and not to our surprise had lots of choices. There were choices like Kanye West's "Black Skinhead", Drake's "Back to Back", and Eminem's "Lose Yourself". At first, we were excited to see all the music options we had but we then recalled another rule there was to the music. The music for our movie could not be copyrighted, however, if wanting to still use it we would have to email the label or artist. So when planning a song for this movie a few weeks ago, that's what we did. Our group decided that Kanye's "Black Skinhead" would be the best option if used for our music video a few weeks back. Then Conner and I proceeded to email Def Jam, the label company of "Black Skinhead" asking for permission for the music to be used in our video. We got an email a week later saying we could but the label wanted to know information of our project, as well as asking if we would gain profit from the use of the song. We ended up deciding to not use the song after our group discussing for days. We all thought the song would be a great choice with the shots of our film however we did not want to complicate things with the label and run the chance of not having any song at all. Additionally, gaining permission for the song and then labeling our video down after would be the worst scenario that could possibly occur, and we wanted to avoid that. We decided to go with a royalty-free song found on YouTube that aligned with the theme wanted to be felt throughout the film. When comparing the two songs, the lyrics were now something we did not have to stress over, due to the new song having none. While the song we wanted originally was not able to be obtained, we can still easily adapt and efficiently our new music for our movie.