New perspectives from the City of Lions

As our new cooperation with our partner in China takes flight, we proudly present you with aerials from Singapore. Our licensors at Flyht Studio are true high-flyers in their home city: their drones fly at dizzying heights above “Lion City” and look down on sites most people will know only from looking up at them, for example the enormous man-made “supertrees” portrayed here.
Singapore + Aerials

Perpetually in demand: strong women

The ongoing struggle of women to assert their position in a male-dominated world and gain equal rights in modern society is a topic – if ever there was one – which seems unlikely to go away anytime soon. The issue has been generating powerful images since the history of film began. We have campaigners for women’s rights in our archive – from the suffragettes to FEMEN.
Feminism

If you want your characters to watch television, say something like a sports event, then the rights to the players, team or stadium have to be cleared – if the players, team or stadium are recognizable – just as they would have to be cleared if the footage were to be shown filling the entire screen. Note:

• As all the royalties and licences for films within films have to be cleared in just the same way as footage destined for direct use in a film, the rights clearance costs are identical.
• The fees for the third-party rights will depend on the individual rights holders; they may well be lower if the rights-holders prove accommodating.
• As a rule of thumb, backdrop licence fees are lower when the footage takes up less than half of the screen in the film.

If you don’t need a particular scene to be recognizable to viewers, you may be able to avoid the need to clear and license third-party rights by, for example, changing the colours on team jerseys or blurring any brands which appear. But be careful with famous sporting episodes or film scenes, signature moves, audio clips, and so on – anything that is recognizable needs to be cleared, even in cases where only genuine experts could identify a scene, person etc.

We can assist you with this issue we deal with regularly and give you tips on how to reduce the royalties and licence fees payable. Simply ask your personal advisor on the Framepool team >