{"id":37,"date":"2005-07-03T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-03-22T19:03:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T02:03:32","slug":"the-challenges-of-music-in-a-low-budget-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The Challenges of Music in a Low Budget Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When am I going to finish that darned LOUIE LOUIE documentary? <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a question I get asked all the time.  I wish I could provide a concise answer.   It&#8217;s a complicated situation, to say the least.  Clearances are a major part of the hurdle.   I just found a great article about other filmmakers that faced similar problems in that particular department, thanks to the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/\">Larry Lessig blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone produced a documentary titled &#8220;Mad Hot Ballroom&#8221; which told the story of New York public school kids in a citywide ballroom dancing competition.   A lot of music was used in this film.  The one thing that really surprised me was that the folks that administrate the music of C+C Music Factory demanded a $5,000.00 license for someone to use the phrase &#8220;Everybody dance now!&#8221;   Just one phrase- no recorded music by the band.  Just three words.  <\/p>\n<p>Incredible&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stayfreemagazine.org\/2005\/06\/mad_hot_ballroo.html\">StayFree blog<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When am I going to finish that darned LOUIE LOUIE documentary? That&#8217;s a question I get asked all the time. I wish I could provide a concise answer. It&#8217;s a complicated situation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries","category-motion-pictures","category-music-business","category-production-at-louie-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}