Production starts.. now!



Last class, my group and I set everything straight. We realized we needed to quickly get in contact with the Artists as far as Music rights go for our final task. Originally, we had decided we would find the record label or management company and email through that, but we were having some difficulty finding that. Damiane asked our teachers how to properly get in contact with these artists and they told us to directly message them off of social media. We doubted that a celebrity would ever respond to random high schoolers, but we still tried. With these celebrities' kind of not being as popular as they were back in the day, we thought there'd still a possibility of getting a message. We planned what Jordyn and I would say, and we picked out our artists. We were formal and direct with our message. We mentioned that we were high schoolers doing a project for our AICE Media project. We messaged the singers Redfoo and Sky Blu, also known as LMFAO, for the rights to their song "Party Rock".  The song was extremely popular back in the 2010's and that specific song would beautifully capture the mood we as a group are trying to obtain. I went the extra mile and even messaged Redfoo's colleague. I saw Redfoo had posted him on his Instagram story and jumped straight to his profile! I asked if he could just tell Redfoo to at least look at my message but unfortunately, I was left on read. Jordyn messaged the singer Ke$ha for the rights to her song "TiK ToK". The song was also extremely popular back in the 2010's and has a lively vibe to it. If anything, my group and I can just find other sources of music or Royalty Free music. Fortunately, we have a musical artist that attends our school and Damaine's cousin makes music so we'll definitely look into their music and see if it would fit our video if we don't get a response. I'm giving it about one more week or so before moving onto the next though. We're still holding onto a string of hope that we can eventually get in contact and get these rights! 

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