The music video is made up of other Creative Commons Licensed video material and is a testimony that CC-licensed music can be just as good as the typical recording industry licenses.
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This Music Video is dedicated to Siena Malia Silverburn. I wonder if YouTube will still be around by the time you’re old enough to make sense out of this. Anyway, welcome to the World! BTW, you have very cool parents. See if you can spot your mommy in the video
Initial vision for the music video
In my mind, I saw this lone guitarist, holding a Les Paul Standard, walking up to the edge of a canyon. The camera pans around him and out into the vastness. Snap the view to the guitarist hitting the first note. And the video pans to scenes of soaring clouds, fly-overs of mountains, water falls, and then to city-scapes. And the video was about people, of all races and creeds.
One World, as the song title goes.
I couldn’t possibly shoot that kind of video. And I didn’t have the inclination to start anything. Until about a week ago.
Creative Commons
Went to Flickr.com and Archive.org to search for materials licensed under Creative Commons (attribution). Picked out 115 photos and 15 videos. Used most of them.
It’s not 100% what I had in mind (e.g. couldn’t find that rock guitarist video footage). But it’s close enough.
