After asking a few 4/5 pieced bands for their participation in our promotional pack for an unsigned band, we have experienced several problems. These included problems with distance and travel as some of the bands we target weren't very local. Also Different band members going on holiday at different times meaning that we were left with very few dates to get the production of the video done.
Kenny and I came to the conclusion to use a solo artist called The Next Forever, AKA Lewis Harold Wolstanholme. This is a 16 year old male from Kings Lynn who plays acoustic/indie style music. As I am in a band myself from the same area, we recently played a gig at the same venue and I saw him play his live set and was impressed with his music and thought he would be an ideal candidate for our project. We have emailed him expressing our interest in using him and to see if he would be interested.
Here is the email:
Basically next year what we have to do is create a promotional pack for an unsigned band or artist. So that means creating a music video, a digi-pack and a magazine advertisement or article.
Since we really like your music and think we could do a lot with it, we were hoping you'd consider allowing us to use 'The Next Forever' as our unsigned artist and creating you such materials.
We have to have shot the music video by the end of September, but we're hoping to getting it started literally as soon as possible. And we really hope you'd be up for it, we'll organise a photoshoot etc for the digi-pack and article probably sometime around the September/October mark as well.
Finally I'd like to point out this will all come to you for free, we won't be charging you. So you get a free promotional pack, we get a free artist to use for our A Levels, it's a bit of you scratch my back, we'll scratch yours sort of thing. But, just because it's a free opportunity don't think it's gonna be poorly made, as this goes towards our grades we'll be spending a HUGE amount of time on it to make it look as professional as possible and once we're done and our course is over the music video is free for you to use off your own back as and when you choose. :)
We look forward to hearing you. If it is a yes would it be possible for you to attach the lyrics of the three songs off your latest EP for us to make a more informed decision of which song to use and what we can do with the narrative areas of the music video.
Thanks
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so far. We have contacted both an actor by the name of Chris Mulvaney and an actress called Karolina Pawlus. We decided to target these two because we thought they would be the best choice for our music video as they both have a lot of experience, they both seem really enthusiastic and also they are both models so will look good and be more natural due to being used to the camera. We first rang Chris but after 2 failed attempts of getting through to him we have decided to email him after leaving a voice mail informing him to expect an email. We
successfully managed to get through to Korolina and talked through with her the details of the production and she seem genuinely very interested in being involved. She told us that she has had previous experiences in music video productions so she stood out as a good candidate for the actress in our music video narrative. Here is a picture of Chris and Korolina.
