Music copy right

I need to get permission to use some of the songs i would like to use in my film so here is a list of the songs and who i need to contact for then

Song: Money Honey
Artist: Lady Ga Ga
Telephone: 310/235-4721
Fax: 310 /235-4905
E-mail: umpg.licensing@umusic.com

Song: Feeling Good
Artist: Nina Simone
COntact through website

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is James Hall and i am currently an A2 Media Studies student attending the Chalfonts Community College, England. I am currently doing my Media Studies coursework in which I have to make a trailer for a film. I would very much like to use the Nina Simone song; Feeling Good, in my trailer as its such a perfect song for my intended purpose. My piece of media is completely non-profit and is solely for education purposes.

If I am not contacting the right person could you please direct me to the right person.

Thank You for your time.

Mr James Hall

The Deal - Scene 1

The Deal

All songs mentioned are ideal songs that if I succeed in acquiring the rights for the music, if I do not acquire the rights I will use other music.

Scene 1
The film opens with the song feeling good by Nina Simone with two boys running out of an old sort of cottagey house, getting on their bikes and riding them down a country lane, with shots of birds flying, rivers and plants. I will use a filter over the scene to show that the shots are in the past, the final shot will be of the 2 boys side by side riding down a small road, I will have the shot pan up in to the sky and look at the sun. As this shot will be very bright I should be able to fade the shot it to another shot of the sun and have it pan down (at this point the song kicks in with the trumpets) on to a similar road with two young adults driving two cars(nice cars, trying to have a Bentley and at rx8 as they are easily accessible by me) the shot will pan down with the shot level with the car windows so that you can see through the first car in to the second car showing the two men with sunglasses in a suits, looking happy.

The Song


The cars

Green Screen experimentation

Today i did a bit of experimental green screening. The reason for wanting to green screen is because i want bits of my film to be shot in a car, by using a green screen i can give the effect of something exciting like a vehicle moving at high speed, or something more common such as, two people having a conversation in a car.

The reason i am not going to just film inside the car while the car is moving is because it puts the lives of my actors in danger (something i wish to avoid). by asking an actor to remember their lines, act natural, keep in character whilst driving a moving vehicle is dangerous and via green screening can be easily avoided

Also whilst filming in a car that is moving any small bumps the car encounters vibrates through you or the tripod and gives a horrible overall effect giving uncontrollable jerky movements that not only look very amateurish also can ruin the whole effect you are going for, so by having a stationary car and putting a green screen infront of whatever you want to edit out, you can film from inside, or outside the vehicle and get a stable shot that gives the effect you are after.

The final reason for wanting to green screen is becasue i want to feature in my own film, i can set up a tripod and get the composition perfect with an actor of similat build to me, push record walk in to the car and act my part, then get out of the car turn off record and then edit out the bits i dont want to use.

Here is my first attempt at green screening

to do this piece of green screening i filmed out of the passenger side of charlies car whilst he drove, i got about 8 minutes of footge. i then put the green screen behind my car and filmed charlie driving, i asked him to only do small movements on the wheel and to change gears at random, i filmed him for about a minute. after importing the footage in to after effects i was able to achieve the green screen effect purely through guess work. and also due to the amount of footage i had collected of background scenery i was able to scrub through and find a piece of footage that fitted perfectly.

As i only guess worked my way in to learning green screening techiniques, my video resulted in being(excuse the punn) a little rough around the edges. so my plan is to do a few more shoots, and take a few tutorials to improve my knowledge of green screening.

i have choosen this tutorial to start with.
http://aftereffects.forgingfire.com/2009/04/28/advanced-keying-pt-3-keying-with-color-key-linear-color-key-color-range/