Hey all, I put this in cafe cause it doesn't directly have to do with filmmaking. I'm more thinking out loud and asking for some navigation.
Disclaimer: I'm googling everything. I swear it. There is too much information. I appreciate the interaction and human angle, which is what I'm after.
I'm a videographer at a design firm. I'm also very much into music. It's something I miss and I need to clean a bunch of things out inside so I started what's turning out to be a wonderful project.
I've put together about 30 musicians, and we're going to put an album from the 90's to a small orchestra/band. Should sound soulful and funky. I've rearranged/written all the music part for part, note for note, and we're rehearsing/auditioning/working out the music side now. I'm blessed with amazing people who totally get this project.
The end result isn't a concert, rather a video. We want to document the whole ride, and splice it in with an on location exterior live performance of the gig with pristine sound. You basically get the gig and the behind the scenes.
We won't perform to an audience this time round. This is basically a huge pitch so we can maybe tour this thing.
This is the clincher. We've got the file. We are on the synch rights and mechanical license. We can make CD's legit and sell a few. We're looking into a video recording cover song procedure for rights. It's on.
But again, we're in Lebanon. Most of us are lebanese, I'm not, my drummer/trombone/trombone/2violins aren't, but as far as anybody looking, as long as we're here, we're from here. Funding has been a nightmare.
The whole point of this thing is to play music and make it good, and manage to put a damn good show together without having to tag where we're from for once.
Literally, if I want to go with a brand, it's super corporate, you have 2 or 3 sodas/cigarettes/booze companies that turn your gig into a fridge/shelf which we don't want for our message.
The cultural missions/embassies all want you to integrate whatever turbulent situation and ethnicity into the performance. We're not about that right now.
I'm thinking that since this gig is playing music that has nothing to do with here, (it's very much a west coast thing) I'm thinking of approaching organizations in California that can support the music for the music's sake.
Again, the product is a legit video, music should be legit, recorded, audio and video, full crew, no audience so technically never done live yet.
This hasn't been done for this guy yet, and I'm surprised, but I can guarantee it'll attract some attention.
Any hints on organizations that help musicians located in the LA area? small sized, not so corporate, good green people that like to help music happen.
I realize this may be a tacky cold-call, but I just need to think out loud and see if anyone catches my drift.
In short, here, it isn't possible to fund anything unless it has directly to do with the turbulence, which isn't what we're about right now for this gig.
Think Miguel Atwood-Ferguson for Jay Dee. That sound. For a west-coast prolific producer of hip hop. It's stuff we listened to when we were young, and we want to play those songs all classy.
Any thoughts?
Disclaimer: I'm googling everything. I swear it. There is too much information. I appreciate the interaction and human angle, which is what I'm after.
I'm a videographer at a design firm. I'm also very much into music. It's something I miss and I need to clean a bunch of things out inside so I started what's turning out to be a wonderful project.
I've put together about 30 musicians, and we're going to put an album from the 90's to a small orchestra/band. Should sound soulful and funky. I've rearranged/written all the music part for part, note for note, and we're rehearsing/auditioning/working out the music side now. I'm blessed with amazing people who totally get this project.
The end result isn't a concert, rather a video. We want to document the whole ride, and splice it in with an on location exterior live performance of the gig with pristine sound. You basically get the gig and the behind the scenes.
We won't perform to an audience this time round. This is basically a huge pitch so we can maybe tour this thing.
This is the clincher. We've got the file. We are on the synch rights and mechanical license. We can make CD's legit and sell a few. We're looking into a video recording cover song procedure for rights. It's on.
But again, we're in Lebanon. Most of us are lebanese, I'm not, my drummer/trombone/trombone/2violins aren't, but as far as anybody looking, as long as we're here, we're from here. Funding has been a nightmare.
The whole point of this thing is to play music and make it good, and manage to put a damn good show together without having to tag where we're from for once.
Literally, if I want to go with a brand, it's super corporate, you have 2 or 3 sodas/cigarettes/booze companies that turn your gig into a fridge/shelf which we don't want for our message.
The cultural missions/embassies all want you to integrate whatever turbulent situation and ethnicity into the performance. We're not about that right now.
I'm thinking that since this gig is playing music that has nothing to do with here, (it's very much a west coast thing) I'm thinking of approaching organizations in California that can support the music for the music's sake.
Again, the product is a legit video, music should be legit, recorded, audio and video, full crew, no audience so technically never done live yet.
This hasn't been done for this guy yet, and I'm surprised, but I can guarantee it'll attract some attention.
Any hints on organizations that help musicians located in the LA area? small sized, not so corporate, good green people that like to help music happen.
I realize this may be a tacky cold-call, but I just need to think out loud and see if anyone catches my drift.
In short, here, it isn't possible to fund anything unless it has directly to do with the turbulence, which isn't what we're about right now for this gig.
Think Miguel Atwood-Ferguson for Jay Dee. That sound. For a west-coast prolific producer of hip hop. It's stuff we listened to when we were young, and we want to play those songs all classy.
Any thoughts?
