Finding A Song

We had originally decided on a song by a band called Brand New, but after emailing a number of labels and hearing no reply, we decided that it would be unwise to waste any more valuable time, and that it would be within our best interests to decide upon a different song.

This is the email we sent:

To whom it may concern,

I am an A Level Media student currently attending St Mary Redcliffe & Temple Sixth Form in Bristol, England. I would like to request permission to use the song ‘Mix Tape’ by Brand New who released this song under your label, for use in my A2 Media coursework which entails creating a music video for a selected song. I will be adhering to copyright laws, and should you decline, I will not use this song.

I would appreciate to hear back from you,

Yours Sincerely,

Victoria Carroll.

I had recently been to see an acoustic / folk artist called Gabrielle Aplin live, and suggested her as a potential alternative. Upon the consensus of the rest of my group, we contacted her through the social networking site 'Formspring.me', which is essentially a question and answer website. She was a little reluctant at first, as she was wary of what would be happening with the video after - due to her being a relatively small scale artist, she could not afford for her songs to be ripped from websites such as YouTube. However, after assuring her that we would not upload it to YouTube if she so preferred, she was happy to let us use one of her songs in our project.

Originally, the song we had planned to use was 'Reverse'. However, the song was quite slow paced, and we felt the ideas we were producing for the visuals were fairly uninteresting. We decided to choose a more upbeat song of hers, and settled on the song 'More Than Friends'.