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A2 Short Film Copyright Letter

January 24, 2010 Leave a comment

“Peterburg Recording Studio”/ “Петеpбуpгская Студия Гpамзаписи”

St. Pitersburg, Russian Federation/г. Санкт-Петербург, Российская Федерация

Repina Str. 28/ул.Репина, 28

199053

[e-mail adress: info@prs-records.com]

[web adress: www.prs-records.com]

[Wycliffe College] Media Studies Music Video A2 Coursework

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am producing a music video for my A2 Coursework.

I understand that you are the owner of the copyright of the track “I Am Glad I’m Finally Going Home”, “Я Очень Рад, Ведь Я, Наконец, Возвращаюсь Домой by: Khil Eduard Anatolyevich, ХИЛЬ Эдуард Анатольевич. ”Author: Ostrovskiy Arkadiy Ilyich, ОСТРОВСКИЙ Аркадий Ильич, Written in: 1966, USSR/CCCP.“, “Singer of “Vocalis”: Khil Eduard Anatolyevich, ХИЛЬ Эдуард Анатольевич Recorded in: 1976, USSR/CCCP.“ and I would like to ask permission to use it for my video.

Since we are on a limited budget and the video will be shown only to students and the administration of our school, we are hoping that you will allow us this use without any charge.  If this is not possible, please let us know what fee would be required for this use.

Your signature below, under “confirmed by,” will indicate that you will agree to permit this use without payment of a fee.  Please let us know if you have any questions concerning this license.  Also would you please let us know as soon as possible if this song cannot be licensed so that artistic changes may be made in the songs to be included in the production.  You can reach us in care of Mr. Trevor Brown, Wycliffe College, Wycliffe, Stonehouse, Glocestershire, United Kingdom GL10 2JQ, www.trevor.brown@wycliffe.co.uk.

Thank you for your help with this matter and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Mr. Tagiev Alexander Konstantinovich

Mr. Trevor Brown

Confirmed by:

LICENSOR

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“Peterburg Recording Studio”,/”Петеpбуpгская Студия Гpамзаписи”

Categories: A2 Copyright Letters

A2 Short Film Kit & Prop List

January 24, 2010 Leave a comment

Clothes:

School uniform will be needed, casual clothes will be needed, clothes on the table in the beginning of the scene with boy, clothes in boy’s wardrobe, clothes in girl’s wardrobe.

Places:

Boy’s room, girl’s room, classroom, dining hall, library, empty field for the beginning, bathroom for boy and girl, street with street lights.

Furniture etc.

Table x2 in classroom, table in boy’s room, chair in boy’s and girl’s room, tables in dining hall, desk board in the classroom, (plate, fork, spoon, knife in dining hall), wardrobe, beds in goy’s and girl’s room, door into the room.

People:

Boy, girl, teacher, some people in dining hall which will shake hands and greeting (about five from each side i.e. boy’s and girl’s).

Technology props:

Boy’s lap-top, girl’s lap-top, alarm clock, jam bar, pack of toasts, toaster, boy’s and girl’s mobile phone, hair brush (for girl), key from room x2, for boy and girl, a toy for girl’s key, two pens which boy will use in the classroom shot, pencil case for the girl in the classroom, pen to write on the board in the classroom, microwave for the scene with kitchen, girl’s nail varnish.

Technical equipment:

Video camera, fisheye lens, sheet of glass for camera protection, spare batteries for camera, card reader or USB wires to copy video filmed into computer, extra lights, tripod, board to roll camera on, I will need an internet stick to have the access the ‘facebook’ in school, computer in library, chair in library, soft to edit the video, camera cassettes should be quite long so it is enough to film the sunrise, I will also need to have two to four cassettes just in case.

Other:

Picture of explosion and flowers taken from internet, street lights on the street switching on, girl’s hands should look girly and boy’s hands should look tough, some small everyday things which will be on the table (like paper, pens, lamp books etc.).

A2 Short Film Script

January 24, 2010 Leave a comment

First scene (Morning)

‘Guy’

Sunrise

(Sun goes up fast) and soundtrack plays at the same time (the sound track will have the radio sound as this music would be on the radio). Soundtrack will be calm to represent morning and the beginning of the day and film itself. Music would be ‘Ska’ or reggae (any calm music) as to represent sun in the morning. To film in the sunny weather would be important.

In bed (room)

As there is only one room in place where the guy will live the whole bedroom scene will be happening in one room.

Tracking shot along the table – stops on funny watch which has half past eleven on them (or something else). Clock making noise (wake up alarm) – a hand smashes it up – the same time we have a shot of the explosion, clock turns off.

Shot with hands on the head of the guy – to represent that he did not want to wake up.

Next part is when ‘guy’ gets out of the bad, we see his hands (only) but from the side going to bathroom, carries on by editing into facial shot when we can see his hands from above (point of view shot).  Hands pour water in them selves and than water goes on camera as to probably represent man’s power, as men pours water in his hands as he would pour energy in them and than gives this power to his face. As sometimes we see in shaving gel advertisements. Reason to this is to represent and stereotype men’s side in the film.

Next shot we will see hands working on dressing man up, we see different shots of hand’s manipulations edited together in fast motion, i.e. pulling up socks, putting on a shirt and packing his stuff for coming up lessons.

Next shot is when the guy opens the door we have a close up from different angles on door handle and his hand in particular.

In school

In this part we will see this guy trying to make up with a girl.

First shot – guy closes the door of his room – (we have a close up on the handle and guy’s arm in particular.)

Later we see a shot of him walking on the street, – we see only his arm right or left for a short period of time just to represent that guy has a way to go.

In school scene

Music is still the same.

We have shots of guy sitting on the lessons, in the corridors.

Shots of a guy putting up hands to ask something and writing something on the board, reading point of view shot etc.

As to represent/stereotype the man’s behaviour as being untidy and naughty I will, have some shots when the guy takes a pen from a teacher – than first shot we have the guy taking the pen and the next shot we have him giving the pen back with a eaten end of it.

There will be some shots which will represent the men’s behaviour.

Also through out the day guy will text to the girl, his hand movements will be nervous as to represent the mood.

Also scene with lunch will be filmed. We will see point view shot from the top on the food, the guy will not finish food he will leave some of it and probably will use just a fork or something like that.

Evening

In the evening music will change to something more energetic like dub step or something more calm as house or trance, as both varieties of styles remind of evening. (In the way of clubbing)

Guy is still texting a girl… (to make the whole scene more interesting we will not see what exactly characters are texting to each other)

In the second part we will see the guy going back into the house. (on the way back he might kick some rubbish on the floor or do something else)

Guy will wear new clothes (change back from the uniform).

A certain things will happen; – guy will check ‘facebook’, throw his clothes on the chair etc. The part with throwing the clothes on the chair is quite important as it will represent him as a quite disorganised person.

One of the next shoots will contain him texting the girl again. To represent that he is really interested in that girl a lot girl will text him while he is changing, at the time the guy will be interrupted but instead of checking the phone later he will get to it immediately (showing his impatience to the audience.)

Second part of the film

We will see the guy coming out of the house to go to library for doing his homework.

Obviously we will not see him working at all, first couple of shots we will see him typing and giving the impression that he is having a hard work, but the on coming shots we will have a camera shot moving onto the screen to disrobe the guy.

The other part of wasting time in library will be when the guy will be texting his girlfriend again and we will see the shot from the side which will include pen and all other stuff on the table and him writing the message under the table.

After that he will go to supper… in supper time we will see him eating. (taking the food seeing him actually eating it and than we will see him taking the tray away and getting out of the dining hall)

In the scenes when guy is going into the dining hall we will have some shots him greeting other people in the dining hall, of course without seeing their faces.

(In this case girl will do the same thing i.e. hugging/greeting people in dining hall) this is one of those things in what girl and the guy will do not the opposite thing.

Next part will be the actual date of those two people we will see each one of them walking at the place decided. Guy’s hands will be filmed from the side rubbing the side of his legs/jeans. The girl will walk and we will see her hands in her mouth, she will be biting her nails because she is nervous.

Next scene is guy walking and we see from the side way which will change into the shot from the back. Camera will follow the guy’s hand for some time until the girl’s hand grabs it (camera than stops). Two people are carrying walking towards until we see their faces that they turn around.

After they turn around we see the final part of the film.

Ending of the film

There is only one bit which will be the same is the ending: there will be two endings in the film. First will be when guy and the girl will take each other hands and turn around on camera one by one and smile in a friendly way, (so that we think that those two people are naive and kind). The other end is when the turn around one by one, but their faces will have some kind of sarcastic sign, in other words they will look like they were playing the game and each one of them will have a face that they won each other. But as the viewer we will see that they are nave by the fact that they both think the same and do not realise it.

Until the end of the film we have funny music… in the middle of the film we have a shoot on the street lamp switching on and then have some dub step music playing….

The begging of the film goes quite relaxed and funny other half

‘Girl’

Morning

Girl wakes up from the alarm clock and switches it off neatly, not banging the clock like guy is doing.

Later on she goes inside the bath room but instead seeing her pouring water in her hands we see her brushing her hair (close up from the side).

There will be some shots of girl making her nails.

We will see the girl opening the wardrobe taking some clothes out.

There will be quite a lot of similar shots. (Ones with characters walking will be the same).

The whole film girl will do everything opposite the guy so there is a balance in the film and it is more interesting to watch it.

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