Final Cut - Our Version of Melanie Fiona's "4 AM"

After months of planning, hours of filming, two two takes in editing and a lot of final cut we finally had the footage to put together a music video and here is our final cut. With our rough cut and it's feedback taken into consideration, we decided to go over the order of our video and see where both narratives would need to be used and what would be best for our music video.

After this video was made we proud of our ending product thought that it reflected accurately what we had wanted from both the performance and narrative.

Rough Cut & Rough Cut Feedback

Here is our rough cut video. This is our first attempt to create a music video and that we had gathered alot of information from our research to create but we are now taking responses as to whether what was successful and what would need to be improved.

After our first rough video was completed, we decided to take in responses and feed back to help us improve our work.

Feedback

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

Construction - How We Inserted The MTV Base Logo

In order to make our music video look as realistic as possible, we decided to add the MTV base logo. this insured that we included our target audience and the research that we had done with what our audience would look for. furthermore, it indicates that that would be publicly shown on a national channel.
 Step 1:
choosing the picture
Firstly we went onto the internet and searched for the logo best to suit our video as the channels have different versions of the same logo. We eventually found a logo that looked similar to the one as is seen under actual music video, viewed On TV. 

This was the original image that we chose to use for our music video we had decided to take this into photoshop and edit.

Step 2:
editing in Photoshop
Then it is dragged into photoshop for editing. We first took out all the black boarder around it so that it fits into the video more and then we put some brightness on it just for it to stand out.


Step 3:
Transferring it into Png
We saved it as a png so that we can out into final cut

Step 4:
Applying it to Final cut

Step 5:
Adjusting it to our video

Filming - Day 5

For our final filming we decided to get into the other half of the narrative of the music video. This is where it is made clear that the boyfriend is cheating on her and that it is revealed that he has a bit on the side.

The Plan:
1. To shoot him realistically having an affair with another girl
2. To show them in an interesting embrace as well as showing the effect of her poisoning him with alcohol
3. To have an interesting twist at the end to ensure a good storyline.

The Four Sections:
1. The Welcoming Scene
2. The Corridor Scene
3. The Sofa Scene
4. The Poisoning Scene
5. The Projector Scene
6. The Second Poisoning Scene
7. The Concequences Scene (wandering into the road)

The Props Used:
The camera
The Tripod
The sofa
The white wall in the location
The projector
The tray
The wine glasses
The wine
The two tablets
The living room.


The Outcomes:

Filming - Day 4

Filming - Day 3

This was the third day of filming that we did and when we started to work on the second verse. I got there at 2 o'clock so we were able to get a lot done and still be able leave early. In the second verse she changed her outfit so that it looks like she had changed from her boyfriend's clothes.

The Plan:

• To pay more attention to the detail to ensure for better quality in the final product
• To add more variations to shots by having the close up and medium shots filmed at the same time
• To create a slightly differently approach when filming the second verse.

The Three Sections:
1. The Side View Scene
2. The Front View Scene
3. The Kitchen Scene

The Props Used:

• The two cameras
• The tripod
• The blue light lamp
• The clip lamp 
• The fan
• The spotlight
• The side wall

The Outcomes:

1. The Side View Scene

This the setup that we used when shoting the second verse.

• we had had a good outcome because of the lighting and our actress worked the camera and the music very well because it wasn't all new to her.
• We used the fan to good effect as it gave a professional look to an ordinary location

     2. The Front View Scene

• We had been successful in showing two sides to look professional
• the fan turned out well, giving a professional look to an ordinary background
• we used different shots with the two different angles successfully