Copyright Permission - Miguel Adorn

Before we can use the song Miguel - Adorn we had to seek permission from Sony Entertainment as the video and the song is copyrighted. We had to write up a letter asking for permission to use this song and email it to them. Prince took the responsibility of emailing Sony Entertainment, and created this email:

 

Dear Copyright Holders at Sony Music Entertainment,
We are A-level Media Studies students from Wilmington Grammar School for Boys in Wilmington, Kent, United Kingdom. We are writing to request your permission to use one of the tracks from Miguel's latest album Kaleidoscope Dream'. The track we wish to use is track number 1, titled Adorn.
With your permission this track will be used in out current A-level Media Studies Project. which involves creating a music video for a popular music track as well as producing and advertising a digipak, which will include a magazine front cover and album artwork. If we receive your permission to use this track, it would only be used in a educational context and be view by our media class, our media studies teacher and the OCR exam board moderator. It will not be released to are large audience or uploaded to any public video websites. The artist and your company would of course be fully recognised throughout the pre-production and the final video itself. A copyright notice with wording supplied from you can be included in the recording project. If this is required please send full details.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Prince Obode, Sathurshan Gunaratnam, Jessica Obiorah and Seun Osho

 

 

 In our copyright permission email we ensured to highlight:

- What track we wanted to use,

- What we will be using the track for,

- Where we are from,

- Who will be seeing the video,

- We will not be using the video for any profitable reasons,

By highlighting all this in our copyright permission email we are hoping that they would believe that it is a legitimate email not a fraud/scam.

Miguel Adorn - Shot Analysis

My knowledge of camera shots in music videos, are that they are shots used as tools to shape the look and feel of a music video. A camera shots is a powerful way in which our group could communicate our vision to our audience.
To gain more understanding on shots used in music videos, we used the music video of our song choice 'Miguel - Adorn'; analysing all the shots that make up the shots. 

Create and captured by Prince

- Medium Shots

This was one of the shots consistently throughout the music video; medium shots of both artist and dancers. What we obtained from this is that the medium shot are used to focus attention on an interaction between artists. 

- Medium Close-ups

What we notice was that medium close up were used to focus fully on Miguel's facial expression, it was also used frequently throughout the music video (not as much as the medium shots).

- Long Shots

This is another shot that was used several times during the music video,throughout the music video. Through the use of long shots Miguel's expression as well as the message of affection he is trying to put across to his female audience, is exemplified. 

- Close Ups

Mainly used to enhance Miguel's expression and to create a connection between Miguel and his audience.