Copyright Emails

Dear Epic Records
I am writing to ask for your permission to use two of your records in our A Level Media Coursework. The songs we would like to use are called Last Christmas by Wham! and Wonderful Dream by Melanie Thornton.
We are creating a documentary about the commercialisation of Christmas and we require these records to produce it.

Yours sincerely, Liander McMinn, Sarah Harte and Becky Jarvis
Weatherhead High School, Media Arts College


Dear Decca Records
I am writing to ask for your permission to use one of your records in our A Level Media Coursework. The song we would like to use is Money Money Money off the Mamma Mia sound track.
We are creating a documentary about the commercialisation of Christmas and we require this record to produce it.

Yours sincerely, Liander McMinn, Sarah Harte and Becky Jarvis from Weatherhead High School, Media Arts College



Dear Mercury Nashville Records

I am writing to ask for your permission to use one of your records in our A Level Media Coursework. The song we would like to use is the instrumental track from Julianne Hough’s Sounds of the Season Holiday Collection.
We are creating a documentary about the commercialisation of Christmas and we require this record to produce it.

Yours sincerely, Liander McMinn, Sarah Harte and Becky Jarvis
Weatherhead High School, Media Arts College




Dear Big Machine Records

I am writing to ask for your permission to use one of your records in our A Level Media Coursework. The song we would like to use is called Christmas Must Be Something More by Taylor Swift.
We are creating a documentary about the commercialisation of Christmas and we require this record to produce it.

Yours sincerely, Liander McMinn, Sarah Harte and Becky Jarvis
Weatherhead High School, Media Arts College

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Codes and Conventions of adverts

 Print Advert

• There is usually one main image to catch the attention of the audience.
• The title of the programme and the channel that it is on in bold and the name of the programme is in a bigger front size.
• There is only two or three colours used becasue of the cost.
• The name of the programme has a hook line

 Radio Advert

• Extracts from the programme are usually used
• They are produced so that it can be used in different forms of media
• There is a music bed under speech and other parts of the advert
• The title of the programme is mentioned along with the scheduling of the programme
• Well known presenters are used or presenter in the docuentary
• Voiceover askes questions that could be answered in the documentary and uses an enigma code
• The outline of the documentary is established in the voiceover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tape Log Sheets

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1. Cutaways of Cards (Card Factory)
2. Customer being served (Card Factory)
3. Cutaway of sweets (B&M)
4. The Snowman Irn Bru advert
5. Opening sequence
6. Jemma cutaway
7. Jemma;s interview with Wham in the background
8. Rahima and Ema interview
9. Cutaway of toys
10. Back to interview
11. Elderly interview
12. Shot of toys -music in background
13. Card Factory
14. B&M long shot
15. Wilkinsons- Shot of swees and deconrations
16. B&M interview with manager
17. Cutaway of shop
18. Interview with vicar