Got in contact with the people over at CTV. It would cost me more than my entire budget to license 20 seconds worth of footage. Therefore, I dropped it [the footage was going to originally serve as the intro to the doc]. Also dropping some other footage taken from G4|TechTV on Magnatune. It was of poor quality, and the licensing would be just as exhorbitant.
That also means that I can now release the film under Creative Commons, *as long as people cannot modify it and release it publicly* [why can’t they? See previous post. Essentially, it would be illegal for me to do so.] Will I release it under the CC? I just might, due to the initial marketting advantages it will give me, plus access to Magnatune’s music. This might be a godsend in disguise.
I’ll aim for my own in-house footage. Oh and my bank called – this film has driven me officially broke. But I’m so close to finishing it that I’ll keep doing it ’till its done.