Musician looking Deep sea footage

[Dreammusic]

Greetings, I am musicain/composer looking for stock footage of fantastic, deep sea creatures to use with 43 minutes of songs I composed and recorded in order to make my first video. I am hoping for some guidance as to where I might find such footage at very low costs and or in trade for music rights as the sale of donated old watches on EBay is my funding source. Thank you in advance,Dreammusic

 

[Aqua Buoy]

Greetings, I am musicain/composer looking for stock footage of fantastic, deep sea creatures to use with 43 minutes of songs I composed and recorded in order to make my first video. I am hoping for some guidance as to where I might find such footage at very low costs and or in trade for music rights as the sale of donated old watches on EBay is my funding source. Thank you in advance,Dreammusic

Hi Dreammusic,

Your best bet is to contact some of the research centers that do deep sea marine biology (up to 5000m by manned subs and ROVs). I don't know quite what the conditions are regarding who owns the material (i.e. the scientist, the institute or the sub owners [not always from the same research institute as the scientist]). Some scientists recored their own footage from inside the sub in addition to that filmed by the sub.

Try:

USA
WHOI http://www.whoi.edu/marops/vehicles/alvin/index.html
MBARI http://www.mbari.org/
HBOI http://www.hboi.edu/marineops/jsl1.html

UK
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/

No guarantees of getting any footage, but if you can maybe offer them something in return or tell them what it is for you might just get it.

You could also try National Geographic or the BBC (UK) for footage, but I doubt you'd get it.


hope that helps
nic

 

[Dreammusic]

Many thanks Aqua Bouy, I will contact all the parties you have suggested. I am offering rights to my music, credit and some $ hopefully I will find some Deep Sea patron saints out there because the Oliver Twist thing to get footage is no fun. Best, Dreammusic

Hi Dreammusic,

Your best bet is to contact some of the research centers that do deep sea marine biology (up to 5000m by manned subs and ROVs). I don't know quite what the conditions are regarding who owns the material (i.e. the scientist, the institute or the sub owners [not always from the same research institute as the scientist]). Some scientists recored their own footage from inside the sub in addition to that filmed by the sub.

Try:

USA
WHOI http://www.whoi.edu/marops/vehicles/alvin/index.html
MBARI http://www.mbari.org/
HBOI http://www.hboi.edu/marineops/jsl1.html

UK
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/

No guarantees of getting any footage, but if you can maybe offer them something in return or tell them what it is for you might just get it.

You could also try National Geographic or the BBC (UK) for footage, but I doubt you'd get it.


hope that helps
nic

 

[Bottle Diver]

Greetings, I am musicain/composer looking for stock footage of fantastic, deep sea creatures to use with 43 minutes of songs I composed and recorded in order to make my first video.

Dreammusic

Can you define fantastic and deep?

 

[teksimple]

Can you define fantastic and deep?

Bottle Diver, my thoughts exactly. Since the average depth of the ocean is more than twelve thousand feet, deep to oceanographers--and many divers and other ocean afficionados--means certainly deeper than one can go on scuba.

So "fantastic deep sea creatures" to us conjures up big-eyed anglerfish with horrible looking fangs, like you can see here.

On the other hand, my mother was born in the midwest and she used to announce--to my embarrasment--that her sons were "deep sea divers." And she called the sharks, turtles, octopus, dolphins, and colorful fish that were in the videos I made, "fantastic deep sea creatures." So I guess it matters what your upbringing is. Dreammusic, perhaps when you said "fantastic deep sea" creatures, you meant the the same thing my mother meant. That is, anything cool from below the surface that you can't see from a boat.

Since I sometimes shoot underwater video for commercial purposes, I am often looking for good quality, royalty-free licensed music. Dreammusic, do you have some samples in MP3 format, etc?

 

[Dreammusic]

Can you define fantastic and deep?

Greetings Bottle Diver, these are very good questions as "deep" is a relative term and "fantastic" rather subjective. I have purchased two books from Amazon on the subject of deep sea creatures so perhaps I will be more versed in the future. From my present, admittedly limited perspective, I am looking for things that most lay people never knew existed. Things that are translucent, make their own light or propell themselves in some noval fashion....... if jelly fish were uncommon and /or unknown to most they would fit the bill perfectly. Best, DreamMusic

 

[Dreammusic]

Greetings Teksimple, I will look into making a MP3 sample available. I have been sending out CDs via snailmail..... not the most efficient way to convey my intent I suppose. safe travels please, Dreamusic

Bottle Diver, my thoughts exactly. Since the average depth of the ocean is more than twelve thousand feet, deep to oceanographers--and many divers and other ocean afficionados--means certainly deeper than one can go on scuba.

So "fantastic deep sea creatures" to us conjures up big-eyed anglerfish with horrible looking fangs, like you can see here.

On the other hand, my mother was born in the midwest and she used to announce--to my embarrasment--that her sons were "deep sea divers." And she called the sharks, turtles, octopus, dolphins, and colorful fish that were in the videos I made, "fantastic deep sea creatures." So I guess it matters what your upbringing is. Dreammusic, perhaps when you said "fantastic deep sea" creatures, you meant the the same thing my mother meant. That is, anything cool from below the surface that you can't see from a boat.

Since I sometimes shoot underwater video for commercial purposes, I am often looking for good quality, royalty-free licensed music. Dreammusic, do you have some samples in MP3 format, etc?