Music Blog

After I finished editing my final task, I thought it was good without music, but I knew I had to use music in it. I didn't feel like the words in any song I liked would work with my movie. I also really didn't want to e-mail a muscian who might never reply to me. Plus I wasn't really sure how to go about it. So I waited and waited and waited. But I knew I couldn't wait any longer. 

My mom recommended that I choose a song that had a good section of instrumentals. I remembered that my dad's friend's son had just recorded a song on Spotify. I remembered that had a really good guitar part. So, I listened to it and felt that it could be a good fit. 

 

 

The next step was to e-mail him and ask permission to use the song. I wanted to be sure that he understood how long of a section of music I would be using and where I would be showing it. Since I am in the US and the team of professors at Cambridge who will review it are in the UK, I asked for the rights to show it in the US and UK. I asked my mom to get an e-mail address for the musician. She texted his mom and sent it to me. Then I wrote him an e-mail. I requested the rights of up to 20 seconds in the US and UK from him. He wrote back the next morning and said I could use it. The next steps will be to put it into my video and update the title screen for Music. I'm excited to see how it turns out!