Gaining permission to use our song

In order to use Trials of the Past in our music video, we had to gain permission from SBTRKT's record label, Young Turks. This proved slightly more difficult than we hoped it would be, as we initially received no reply to our first three emails, meaning that I turned to Facebook in order to try and gain a response.

 

The email which we sent them contained a prefix from our teacher, so the whole email read:

 

To whom it may concern,

 

I am a Media Studies teacher at Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford in the UK, and I write to you as my students are currently studying music video at A2 level. As we study the OCR Media Studies course the students have to make a music video, digipack and magazine advertisement as part of the course and their coursework. Students have to choose an artist and ask permission from the record company if they could use a song for their music video to be set to. Below is an email from one of my students asking permission to use one of your artists songs for their music video and coursework. We would of course credit the record company and other items you may wish to have credited in the video. The video will be placed on You Tube privately, so only the student and examiner can see it, and comments will be disabled. This video will not be used commerically and will purely be used as coursework for the Media Studies A level. If you could email me to get back to me about this matter or if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me on this email address.

Thank you for your help and reading this. If you do not wish for the student to use your artists song then please let us know.

 

Miss G Peacock

 

We are a group of A2 Media Studies students at Chelmer Valley High School who have been given the task of creating an original music video for our coursework. We are writing to you to ask for your permission to use the track ‘Trials of the Past’ by SBTRKT. We would fully credit your company in the credits of our music video and can assure you it is for a non-profit purpose. If you require further information please don’t hesitate to ask. We would greatly appreciate if you would consider,

 

Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

 

Jack Jolly,

Calum Tween,

George Martin &

Rhys Willett

 

Chelmer Valley High School Media Studies Students

 Calum Tween 8282