PB3 was coming along alright, until I faced the issue of finding Public Domain and Creative Commons Content.

This is literally one of the biggest issues in the world. I tried archive.org but it ended up being extremly dodgy in my experience and I found most of the clips I wanted to use had no information on copyright. After a few google searches for CC search engines, finding no luck, or websites without clear guidelines on their videos I took to asking a few friends for their recommendations.

A friend who is also in the media course suggested Vimeo’s creative commons section. Which turned out to be the biggest life saver of the afternoon. Unlike a lot of another CC websites, Vimeo’s CC section has specific categories laid out for you, with each copyright stated clearly on the page, theres an inbuilt search engine for each category so you are able to work within the guidelines you have, and most of the videos are recent and high quality.

This was greta but I also wanted a few video mades before 2010, which Vimeo did not have any of. I wanted some vintage footage of fashion and families from 1920-1970, as my friend has a huge huge passion for both fashion and her family. I remembered Seth suggested a site called Prelinger in our Workshop on thrusday so I decided I’d give it a shot.

Prelinger ended up being great, there was plenty of old black and white footage, along side cartoons and old documentaries about families from the 60’s, all of the video’s I found were in the public domain and the copyright on the site was clear in the “about” section. What I loved about Prelinger was the old footage I wasn’t able to get on Vimeo.

Hopefully these new installations to my project will really spice up the interview!