Permission Letters (Miguel - Adorn & Melanie - 4 AM) - Jessica And Prince

Before we can use the song Miguel - Adorn we had to seek permission from Sony Entertainment as the video and the song is copyrighted. Jessica 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.

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 albu

Miguel - The Artist

MIGUEL
For our media project we have decided to do the song, Adorn by the R&B artist Miguel.
Miguel's Website

History

Miguel Jontel Pimentel was born on the 23rd october 1986. he was first signed to Drop Squad Records after graduating from high school in 2000, due to a change of image he signed to Jive Records in 2007 where he released his first album All I Want You. although the album wasn't successful immediately, it became a sleeper hit and gradually went up the album chart in the Billboard 100 until it reached certified gold, selling 404,000 copies in the US alone.

Image

His image is very prominent and is often seen as the first indicator to his music. He is all known to have a smart hipster style. He is known for having tight suit with quirky accessories. The colours he usually wears are either bright and bold and black with a futuristic.

The first image displays Miguel signature style by having the qurky bow tie along with the suit like cardigan. As well as this he also has his staple futuristic glasses, which are seen in alot of his looks.
We would be taking inspiration of this by using both a bow tie and a pair of Ray-Bans, taking inspiration from his glasses.

This is another one of his looks where he uses the glasses again and he has more of a rock edge.

I alot of his clothes also consist of leather jackets, which  we would also be adapting for our video .

Albums

All I Want Is You

Kaleidoscope Dream