My project is a courtroom thriller, and there are suppose to be protesters outside of the courthouse, since it's a big dramatic case.
However, I do not want to have to block off roads and hire actors to play the protesters, so I am wondering, if it would be legal to use real footage of real protesters, taken from people's home cameras and phones? Is their a place to get archive footage, or is this usually not a good idea, since people may be able to be seen on there without giving their consent to be in the movie?
If I can go this route though, how can I make the archive footage look good? I checked out some footage of protests, and the footage might not gel well, with the movie. If you watch a movie like JFK (1991), for example, they took 8mm films of the assassination and blended that with the movie, and they made it look like art, and the audience of course new that it was intended to be seen through the point of view of the public's cameras. Where as one could easily screw that up, and you have a more intended, cinematic looking movie on one hand, then it cuts to amateur taken videos by everyday people. So the question is, how do you make lower quality archive footage, look artistic when blended with the movie in general?
Thanks.
However, I do not want to have to block off roads and hire actors to play the protesters, so I am wondering, if it would be legal to use real footage of real protesters, taken from people's home cameras and phones? Is their a place to get archive footage, or is this usually not a good idea, since people may be able to be seen on there without giving their consent to be in the movie?
If I can go this route though, how can I make the archive footage look good? I checked out some footage of protests, and the footage might not gel well, with the movie. If you watch a movie like JFK (1991), for example, they took 8mm films of the assassination and blended that with the movie, and they made it look like art, and the audience of course new that it was intended to be seen through the point of view of the public's cameras. Where as one could easily screw that up, and you have a more intended, cinematic looking movie on one hand, then it cuts to amateur taken videos by everyday people. So the question is, how do you make lower quality archive footage, look artistic when blended with the movie in general?
Thanks.
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