BBK: Pitch Contribution

Over the past week as a group we have been pulling together all out concept ideas, research and planning compiling a pitch in order to present our ideas to the rest of the class. As a group we worked collaboratively on many of the tasks helping each other with presentation whilst strengthening our concept through discussion.

In order to be efficient with the time we had before our presentation we also divided up the different planned between us in order to cover everything and add further details with each other as we went. 

For this task i was allocated the roles of presenting our various location recces and displaying the visual style we hope to capture in our piece inspired by our research in order to allow the audience to picture what out final result will look like.

Location:

• I started by explaining the reasoning behind our multiple locations and how we had split our narrative almost into three chapters.
• I chose to use both still and moving images to also get a sense of how our camera movement would complement the locations we would use.
• Unfortunately one of our locations is based at an annual event, this being a firework display which will not be taking place until the beginning of next month meaning we could not perform a location recce. However in order to allow the audience to get an idea of the quality of the camera footage during night I included some test shots using sparkler to show how the light from the fireworks to illuminate our scenes

Visual Style:

• I split up the visual style slides into sections referring to colour schemes and camera movement/editing. 
• Starting with colour I created a mood board mapping out the overall mix of colours that we would like to present from pieces we had been influenced by.
  
• To show the audience how we were going to replicate this I inserted the images we had created in Photoshop using curves and colour enhancement tools showing what our shots would look like in relation to what inspired them. 
• I then started to create a short video made up of clips from our most prominent influences for visual style and aspects of texts that had input into the creation of our narrative in order to allow the audience to visualise our final product. I edited together the visuals in iMovie and added a soundtrack by the band whose song we are creating the music video. 

• From here I went onto to compile a number of short clips showing the various different camera techniques and movements we would like to use as well as some post production practices we aimed to learn and reproduce such as binocular view vfx and duplicating a single cast member within one shot.
• This video was done without a soundtrack so that I could explain each shot as it was viewed and why we wanted to use it. However I did feature titles naming each shot and its original source.