Letter to actors

Dear Amelia,

               I am a 6th form student taking media studies at A level, and for my A2 coursework i have chosen to create a music video, it is all about a girl that is unhappy with the way that she is looking and she wishes that she looked like other people and not herself.  

   I am asking you if you would be prepared to lip-sink the song 'The voice within' by Christina Aguilera as this is the song that i have chosen to do my music video to, i will also be asking members of the public to lip-sink various lines aswell.

Please give me an honest response. 

Many thanks

Megan Barrett





Dear Harriet,
                   I am a 6th form student taking media studies at A level, and for my A2 coursework i have chosen to create a music video, it is all about a girl that is unhappy with the way that she is looking and she wishes that she looked like other people and not herself.
   I am asking you if you would be prepared to act as this girl, you will be the main character in my music video, along with other members of the public that i am going to ask to lip-sink odd lines too.

Please give me an honest response. 

Many thanks

Megan Barrett

Letter to artist

Hello,

I am a 6th form student at The Kings School, Ottery St Mary studying media and for this years coursework we have been asked to create a music video, I am really interested in using the Christina Aguilera song 'The voice within' but in order to use this song I am going to need consent, I would be hugely greatful if you would be able to give me consent to use this song so that I can carry on creating my coursework piece.

Many Thanks
Megan Barrett  

Shotlist

Shot number	How long is the shot going to last?	Action- what is happening?	Camera shots and angles
1	10 seconds	-Introduction of the song “The voice within”- Christina Aguilera. - Girl turning the t.v. on and sees model and ‘slumps’ down on her bed.	Long shot to show the actions of the actor.
2	5 seconds	Short video of model walking down a catwalk.	Shot of the television that girl is watching.
3	3 seconds	Girl watching model sat on her bed.	Over the shoulder shot.
4	2 seconds	Watching the girl sat on her bed looking sad.	Close up of her face to see emotions.
5	5 seconds	Girl looking in the mirror covering her body.	Camera moving from face to feet.
6	2 seconds	Girl crying in the mirror.	Close up to show emotion.
7	2 seconds	Girl hitting the mirror in anger.	Mid shot to see action.
8	3 seconds	Girl sat at dinner table.	Mid shot so can see action and emotion.
9	2 seconds	Facial expression to food in front of her.	Close up to se emotion.
10	2 seconds	Girl pushes her food away and runs off.	Long shot from left angle.
11	3 seconds	Girl sat with her head over the toilet.	Mid shot to see action.
12	3 seconds	Girl sat beside the toilet holding her head.	Mid shot to see action and facial expression.
13	3 seconds	Girl sat in an empty room with little light in a crouched position hiding her head.	Long shot from right angle.
14	2 seconds	Girl crying in crouched position.	Close up to see action.
15	2 seconds	Girl stands up to look at herself in the mirror and puts her hand on the mirror where her face is to cover it.	Mid shot.

Although i created this shotlist right at the beginning of my project i didnt really know if i was going to use these shots, i decided to use some of them instead of all of them.

I am glad i made this shotlist because it helped me to realise in how much depth i needed to plan my work, i also found it useful because of the timing and although i didnt use all of these shots i kept to most of the time slots to ensure that it would all fit in with the duration of my song.

Costume

The singer
Clothing- I want my actor to be wearing a simple black dress as when i am filming her it will be in black and white and i feel that having a simple coloured dress will be powerful as the whole message that i am trying to get across is that you don't need to be wearing all these fancy clothes and make-up for you to look pretty so i feel that by having the singer in my video setting this example then it will help me to get my message across, i also feel that if i am trying to set this example then it is important that i am also following it through otherwise it will be seen as hypocritical.

I have chosen this dress because of the simplicity of it, i also think that with the diamanté it adds a sense of class.


Make-up- The make up that i want my singer to wear is very little as i want her to look natural, this is for the same reason as i want her to be wearing simple clothes because i feel that following the same example as i am setting is important in this case.



The actor
Clothing- The clothes that i want my actor to wear at the beginning of my music video are normal, everyday clothes, this is because i want her to seem like the typical teenager to anyone that watches my video. As my music video is all about a girl not liking the way that she looks and she is trying to do all of these different things to try and make herself feel alot better about how she is looking to other people and how she tries to make her feel inside. Halfway through my music video i want her to change clothes into something more glamorous like a short, colourful dress, this i think is an important thing to have feature in my music video because the message that i am trying to get across is that she is putting herself in all these fashionable clothes to do everyday things, this is because she thinks that it will make her fit in when it actually makes her get picked on even more because the 'other girls' think, and notice that she is trying too hard to make herself fit in with them.




Make-up- I want my actor to be wearing no make-up at all at the beginning of my music video, i feel that this is important because i am trying to get the message across that you dont have to wear a load of make-up to make yourself look pretty, and then, the same as the costume changing, i want her to be doing her make-up in the mirror one day as if she is going to be going out, she is going to be wearing alot of mascara as she will think that it makes her eyes look more appealing and also she will be wearing alot of foundation to cover up her face.

Filming

I am going to be filming in many different places including, a bedroom, a staircase, a catwalk, a school, a kitchen, bathroom, a dark room, all these places have significance to what my music video is about and i feel that it is important to portray my music video in the right way as i feel that it is a serious matter and the story that i am trying to tell cant be taken lightly, it is a serious subject that i am portraying so the actors that i am using need to be able to take my project seriously too.

I have taken some pictures of these places that i am going to be filming in...

                                                                                     Kitchen --->

                                                                                              Bedroom --->

                                                                                             Bathroom --->