Music Choice

Hey Cambridge, it's your boy, Isahiah Melendez back again. I'm going to discuss about our movie's soundtrack picking process today. There were some guidelines to follow when selecting the music. We were aware that the music couldn't be too long because the movie could only be 1:55 minutes. We only need a small portion of the music because it doesn't cover the entire song. This would have to be a brief segment that is consistent with the overall idea of our film. Regarding the topic, we also wanted a music that was hyped up and appropriate for boxers to listen to. We looked for various music, and to our amazement, there were many options. Selections included "Black Skinhead" by Kanye West, "Back to Back" by Drake, and "Lose Yourself" by Eminem. We were first thrilled to see how many music selections we had, but then we remembered another music-related regulation. We would need to email the label or artist if we wanted to continue using the music from our movie, even though it was not protected by copyright. So that's what we did a few weeks ago when we were developing a song for this film. A few weeks ago, our group determined that using Kanye's "Black Skinhead" for our music video would be the greatest choice. Subsequently, Conner and I emailed "Black Skinhead's label, Def Jam, to request permission to utilize their song in our video. A week later, we received an email stating that we could, but the label needed details about our project and whether or not we would make money from the song's use. After deliberating about the song for several days, our group ultimately decided not to use it. We all agreed that the music would go really well with the scenes in our movie, but we didn't want to cause trouble for the label or risk having no song at all. Furthermore, we wanted to prevent the worst-case situation, which would be getting permission use the song and then having our video labeled down after. We chose a song that was available on YouTube without any royalties that complemented the overall theme we wanted to convey in the movie. Upon comparing the two tunes, we found that the new song had no words, therefore we no longer had to worry about them. Even though we were unable to get the song we had in mind for our movie, we can nevertheless effectively and readily create a new soundtrack.