Our Chosen Song (New)

Our initial song was 'Miguel - Adorn' which as a group we were busting with several ideas, what we wanted it to look like, where we wanted it to be and what props we would like to be in our music video; we even wrote out every shot we would need to make up our music video. 

As you can see in this image below, here is the shots we wanted to use for the music video, 'Miguel - Adorn'.

Due to several issues, such as cast; lead character was unable to attend the dates we had set out to record our music video and location; there was misinterpretation between the owner of the location and our group, we have decided as a group to change our chosen song. The trials we faced trying to put together taught our group many things such as:
1. Location - Ensure you have in writing permission to use the found location, to avoid any misinterpretation.

2. Chosen Song - Ensure that the song we have chosen is by a female artist, this is because we can easily find females to join our cast for our music video.

3. Timing/Be More Organised - We noticed that as a group we were not as organised as we should be therefore we have made it a mandate to become disclipine ourselves more, and be on time and organised. 

Putting this all into consideration we have chosen to bas our music video on: Melanie Fiona - 4Am 

                                  

You may have noticed that there is main male in this video, however unlike 'Miguel - Adorn' the female artist dominates majority of the shots taken. 

Copyright Permission - Melanie Fiona 4AM

Similar to the Miguel - Adorn music video we were planning on making, we need to create a copyright permission email to use the song because it is copyrighted. By creating this email we are avoiding any chances of being sued for using a copyrighted song without the permission of its owner.

The copyright permission email is very similar to the Miguel - Adorn copyright permission email, however we had to alter some of our wording:

Dear Copyright Holders at Sony Music Entertainment,

 

We are A-Level Media Studies student from Wilmington Grammar School for Boys Sixth Form, in Wilmington, Kent, United Kingdom. We are writing to request your permission to use one track from Melanie Fiona's previous album 'The MF Life'. The track we wish to use is track number two, titled '4AM'. With your permission this track will be used in our current A-Level Media Studies Project. This involves creating a music video a music video for a popular music track as well as producing and advertising a digipak, which includes a magazine front cover and album artwork. If we receive your permission to use this track, it would only be used in an educational context and be viewed by our media class, teach and the OCR exam board moderator. It will not be released to a 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 copy right notice with wording supplied from you can be included in the recording of the project. If this is required please send full details.

 

We look forward to hearing from you,

 

Kind regards,

Jessica Obiorah, Prince Obode, Sathurshan Gunaratnam and Seun Osho