At the start the workshop we had a little discussion on our though on passion. A lot of my thoughts and ideas have already been addressed my Week 4 Lectorial blog post. After the discussion we continued our work on PB2. At this point I have done most of the work: brainstorming ideas, shooting and editing. During the class I did a little bit of editing and I asked him a few questions:

” Even though this song is copy righted, is it okay to use a few seconds of it?”

“Is that not considered Sampling?”

He replied by asking me where it mentions that in a legal context. I tried finding a law that addresses the issue, but Jeremy already being in the field for a significantly longer time than I have probably already had doubts that it was true. Initially I thought it would be okay because I have heard so many hip hop artists sample a few seconds of lyrics from famous songs or words from impactful speeches. Now that I have clarified it with the tutor I had to take out the copyrighted sample from my assignment which were lyrics from the song “Big Spender” by ASAP  Rocky and Theophilus London.

“I added my previous editing work into this video to show what the video was leading up to, is that okay?”

He replied along the lines of: “why would you not make more original content, rather than recycling old ones”. If I had used the recycled edit at the end I would have made my video more literal and less impactful.