Requesting Permission for location of music video

 For our music video project, we are going to film and use certain equipment in the Corbet Woods. As it is a public space, we had to ask for permission of the land owner, shopshire council and inform the police of our plans.

Lyric Annotation

Risk Assessment

Below is our risk assessment for the filming of our music video project:

Goodwins Theory

Key Points;

1 - Relationship between the lyrics and the visuals.
- Themes, mise-en-scene and events of the video match with lyrics of the song, to help to portray the message of the song.

2 - Relationship between the music and the visuals.

- The cuts and edits of the video are in sync with the rhythm and beat of the song matching cuts or effects to specific drum beats or notes.


3 - Music videos have genre characteristics

- Certain features are expected out of a video depending on the genre of the music, for example a girl bands/artists are expected to have dancers and close ups of the singers, whilst a Indi band are expected to have performance shots ofthe band and cut to a fast beat.


4 - Often due to the demands of the record label, artists videos will include many close ups of the artist and will often develop motifs that recur across multiple videos

- This allows the record label to promote a set image for the band, which will help target audiences empathise with the band.


5 - Emphasis on 'looking'

- The 'male gaze' is often used to attract a male audience. The male gaze is a focus on presenting things that appeal to men. This often means a voyeuristic view of, and an objectification, of women. The emphasis on looking also includes the artist looking directly into the camera helping the audience connect with the artist.


6 - Intertexual references.

- Music videos reference other forms of media, most commonly film, but can alos be television and other music videos. 

Permission for use of track

Text in Email:

'Dear Sir/Madame,

We are students from Thomas Adams, Wem We are writing to you requesting permission to use your client. Alesso's Track "if I lose myself" for our A level media studies project where we have to make a music video. it's non profit and it's purely to pass our media course.

Thank you for your time,
Dan Rogers and Stephen Floyd.' 

Over Cranking

For this task we had to over-crank our music track (speeding up). We achieved this by importing the audio file into Final Cut Pro (Application). We dragged the audio file into place, clicked on Motion, then increased the speed of the overall track. 

Treatment for Music Video

Audience Research - Finding the music track

Audience Research - Music Category