DW - Contribution to Pitch

For our pitch we all contributed by adding slides to our Prezi, and helping construct the performance. In our pitch we used the Prezi to show mainly visuals and key words, and relied on our voices to explain our ideas, as to keep the audience hooked on the key images on the screen as opposed to a block of text. Personally, I uploaded the locations, costume, visual effects, props and difficulties slides. These were all informed by my research individually, as well as research from the rest of the group.

Locations
This was informed by three location reccies we had completed, the Drama Studio for the performance shots, and Brighton skate park and Will's bedroom for our narrative shots. The picture shown for the bedroom was a found image, as we hadn't planned to create a messy room on the reccie. We have also had a relatively new idea to use a scrap yard for some of our narrative shots, while our protagonist is smashing up things. Because it was a new idea, we hadn't had time to perform a reccie.

Costume
For costume I analysed various images on the band for our two performers, which was relatively simple and all black. For our narrative character we wanted fashionable clothing, and a typically 'indie' style, which helps connote the idea of individuality and isolation we plan to show in our video.

Visual Effects
From my research I had found several effects that I really liked the idea of. We already had experience with using 50fps to achieve slow motion shots, like on our reccie to Brighton. I then found an RGB split in a video I liked from a band called Dorje. Ross is in the process of learning how to do this, as he is already confident on After Effects. The third technique we want to experiment with is an artificial celluloid film overlay, like seen in a variety of Royal Blood videos. This adds a natural distortion and grunge to the shot, which we think would be effective in our video.

Props
In our group we have a clear idea for props and visuals we want to include, so the props slides were relatively straight forward. I used a mixture of primary and secondary images as well as key words to help identify the props. We are in the process of souring out some of the props, like Mike Kerr's bass, just to help with the mise-en-scene.

Difficulties
I analysed the locations and ideas we had, and assessed them for risks and problems. Our idea for using the drama studio involves low key lighting, which could be a problem when it comes to filming, however our location reccie seemed promising. Our new idea of going to a scrap yard will involve broken glass etc so we need to be cautious of our actors, and carry our an appropriate risk assessment before shooting. We also have had the idea of showing our narrative character to be reckless, and hope to connote an illustrative relationship between lyrics such as "another pill no good for my health". However, we do not want to actively show this, so part of our challenge is to effectively connote these actions without showing them.