letter to wildlife entertainment and reply

To Wildlife Entertainment

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely


Amy, Lainy and Chloe
Hurtwood House School

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Geoff

Thank you very much for the positive consideration of our request.

The video will form part of a portfolio of work put together as part of a unit focussing on marketing in the music industry. Our concept for the video is to chart the rise of an indie band through the changes in their environment. The video will be performance-based, but the set will change over the course of the video from teenage bedroom to recording studio. We wanted to use a track by the Arctic Monkeys because we felt their music and their story perfectly encapsulate the dreams of thousands of bedroom musicians. We intend to use actors from our school as the band members who will lip-synch the track, although if Alex and the boys would like to come and star in the video themselves, we would be delighted to welcome them for the day!

The video project and accompanying portfolio will be assessed by our teacher and the exam board, but we would be delighted to send you a copy when we have finished.

I hope this gives you the information you need. We can provide any further information or guarantees should you require them.

Best wishes

Lainy, Amy and Chloe

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Amy, do you have a number I can call you on please ?
Or you call me
Best Geoff

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After we recieved this email, we rang Geoff to ensure him that we would not be portraying the band as negative. He simply wanted to talk more about the concept of the video and gave us information about the bands background which gave us more material to work with.