Drum Kit Emails

-----Original Message-----
From: jer1503
Sent: 05 October 2010 13:49
To: Rebecca Hancock
Subject: RE: Drum Kit

Dear Miss H,

Thank you for your quick reply.

We underestimated the vitality of the drum kit to your department and
are completely understanding of your hesitance to lend it to us for use
outside.

We shall contemplate the chances of using the old kit on site, but for
now we would just like to thank you for taking your time to reply and
consider us.:)

Thank you,

Jemma


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Hancock
Sent: 05 October 2010 09:39
To: jer1503
Subject: RE: Drum Kit

Dear Jemma
The drum kit is not for use outside, I'm afraid. We rely on the kit for
GCSE, A level, and Music tech recordings, for concerts, Jazz band,
luncheon club and for Drum lessons, and I am not prepared to risk it
being used outside. I could consider you using the old kit in a
location away from the music department (still on the school site), but
it would need to be indoors.
Sorry to be disobliging, but the drum kit is a vital part of our music
department equipment.
Miss H


-----Original Message-----
From: jer1503
Sent: 04 October 2010 10:30
To: Rebecca Hancock
Subject: Drum Kit

Mrs Hancock,

This is the media studies group who have recently been talking to you
about borrowing a drum kit to use in the filming of our music video
coursework.

After some deliberation, we have decided to ask you if we could borrow
the drum kit to use by the graffiti outside the back of Sixth Form.

If this is possible, could you please specify some times this week in
which you would be willing to let us borrow it for an hour.

Thank you so much for all your help.

Jemma Rowlston

Drum Kit

With Ben being the only person who would play the drums in the video we needed a kit for filming. This proved difficult as Ben could not move his own kit and the borrowed kit came with strict rules. We could not:

• Take it outside
• Take it off school property
• Have it past 5.00pm

This meant that we could not use our desired location (Battery Point, Portishead) as it was off school property as well as outside. This meant that we had to come up with an alternative.

We decided to shoot the band on green screen. This would allow us to learn a new (unexpected) skill as well as possibly do something interesting in post-production. We borrowed a green screen with lights and shot the band with the borrowed drum kit over one night.

As we could not get hold of a full size green screen it made it difficult to film the band without getting the background in shot; it was a tight squeeze! But it was all possible and brilliant.