Music Permission

We knew that the use of music was vitally important in this trailer and through research of other action genre films, the music often set the tone for what was to happen, even in other genres like the horror deconstruction I completed. We emailed all the relevant companies who hold the songs on their labels.

Music used:
Frankie Knuckles- You can't hide
The Beastie Boys- Rock Hard
Michael Jackson- Beat It
Duran Duran- Union of the Snake

















These are the images of the emails that were sent to each label. These are to prove that we have gained permission from these labels to use their music legally in our trailer. These are all famous and iconic 1980s tracks and we feel that each of these songs gives a certain message and tone which meets our objectives for our piece. The Frankie Knuckles song 'You can't hide' gives off connotations for the policeman to the druggies, the song 'beat it' by Michael Jackson is the message the policeman are giving to the druggieas well. The other tracks are carefully picked for the scenes that we are going to complete.

We also had to gain permission for using the Japan image that we gained from Google images for our poster background. We felt that this was a vital part of our poster as our slogan was 'clearing up the streets' and the street was empty, therefore emphasising this view.