Deciding on a song, treatment and permission message

Deciding on a song

When I was given the task of deciding on a song I knew that to make the best music video I could, I would need to use a song that I liked. I felt that essentially there were two types of song that I would like to create a video for. These we’re either an up-tempo, happy song, to which the video would be quite performance based and very bright in terms of imagery, to reflect on the songs happy tone, or a much slower tempo, meaningful song, that I could create and equally meaningful and possibly quite dark music video. To make my decision I scoured my iPod to find songs that I was excited about the prospect of filming for. I narrowed my decision down to four songs, three of which we’re very up-tempo, and one song was a powerful acoustic song. I narrowed it down to the acoustic song and one other that wasn’t in my original four as it was a very recent release and I hadn’t heard it until very recently. Although I felt I understood the acoustic song better, something told me that I would be able to make a much better music video for the other song, purely because I liked the song much more and would have more fun trying to be creative with it. The song I finished up choosing was Arctic Monkeys – Pretty Visitors.

Permission Message

After I was positive on the song I had chosen i sent an e-mail to the brittish label the band were on asking if I could use the track for my video and stating where it would be found and by whom it could be viewed.

I have been made aware that when the image is clicked up to be viewed in its full size it is no where near big enough to read the message I sent. i double checked the sizings that I uploaded it in and can't find any reason that it shouldn't come up large enough to read, so I can only assume that it has something to do with blogger and not myself. The e-mail that i sent to Domino UK the representatives for the Arctic Monkeys in the UK read like this:

My name is Thomas Cooper and I am a media student from Thomas Adams Sixth Form Wem in Shropshire. I am e-mailing you to ask your permission in using a track taken from the Arctic Monkeys new album to make a music video with. The track I wish to use is 'Pretty Visitors'. Once the video is made I will not be uploading it to youtube or anything like that, but instead the only place that I will be putting it is on a blog that my college have set up for students to publish their work on, this way the exam board can see it when it comes to be marked. I hope that you will allow me the permission to use this song in my video

Regards

Tom

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