Permission To Film

I had to seek permission for us to film in the Siemens office for a small section of our website. I wrote a letter and asked them if they would let us film on the 26th of November. We had been given provisional permission to film but we had to confirm a date with them and we also had to confirm what we were actually taking to the shoot and what we needed to do there.

"Andrew Jobe, James Bolton, Alex Beale

Bilborough College Students

Shoot date: Saturday 26^th November

We’re A2 media students in our second year at Bilborough College and we’re creating a music video for our coursework. There are three of us in our group – Andrew, James and Alex – and we’d like to use an office for filming a small section of our music video.

We’re hoping to be able to film around 40-50 seconds of our music video in and around the office space. Some of that time will be filming on the way into the car park and way out of the car park. We’ll only need around 1-2 hours on the Siemens grounds for filming and we would not need to move anything in the office space.

We will be filming a clip of a man walking through the office and sitting down at a desk, and then another shot of him getting papers put down on his desk. He will then get up and leave the office and be tracked out by the camera.

We will have 4 people in our group that will be at the shoot. The three group members and the one actor that we need and they’ll all be around the ages of 17 and 18. This is purely for work and it would not be used to publicise the college or your company.

We would be bringing a video camera, stills camera, a tripod [camera stand], an in tray, an out tray and a small pile of papers which are supposed to be “work”. At no point would we be filming the Siemens logo or using the Siemens name during the music video.

We would be wanting to start filming at around 11 o’clock in the morning through till about 1 o'clock if it’s not finished before then.

The finished film will be shown to the examiners and it will be put on the online site Blogger, as that is what our course is marked on. It also may be put on the Bilborough College Youtube channel to show students in the year below what they need to do in the following year."

I've sent the letter to the company and I should hear back sometime next week.