Planning - Music

For our main task we are creating the opening to our film called 'The Ripple Effect'. Due to our film being a Romantic Drama Film, our music we want to use will be very key in order for our end product to be good and effective. We had a few choices that we may have used - one being "High Hopes" by Kodaline, however the one song we wanted to use for our film was a song called "King and Lionheart" by Of Monsters and Men. The song and the lyrics enhance the idea of two people wanting to be together however there are people wanting them to be separated. This links with our plot to our film perfectly and that is why I felt we needed this piece of music.

I contacted Republic Records - The Record Label who own the copyright to the song. I e-mailed them, messaged their Facebook page and tweeted to them on twitter trying to get permission to use the original song. Sadly they didn't reply so I found a cover of the song which will still be effective for our film. I messaged the owner of the version on YouTube and he gave me permission to be able to use his song for our Main Task. So our music is a cover of King and Lionheart by joshbwild.



Group Roles

Barney Flood - For music, my role was initially to discuss it with the rest of the group. I came up with the idea of using "King and Lionheart" and the others agreed. I made all of the research into finding copyright owners for the song we wanted. I also researched the copyright law to confirm what we needed in order to be able to use a song made by someone else. I then made all of the communication in getting permission for the music from both Of Monsters and Men as well as joshbwild. After this I typed up this post and posted it here.

Elijah Potter - Basically, I contributed in the decision making that helped us come to conclusion that "King and Lionheart" will be the song that we will be using. It was Barney's initial idea to choose this song, and I felt that it was a great choice.

Zachary Jakubowski- For this task my role was to help decide as a group what song best suites the genre and script of our story, we all came to a conclusion that "King and Lionheart" would be that song. It was Barneys initial idea to choose this song and me and Elijah agreed with his decision.