After our presentation on Friday, the feedback that really stood out to me from the panel was regarding our set design, and more specifically, our lack of design. Before we begin creating our second, third, etc episodes, I wanted to draw inspiration from online film creators that I follow.

The first, and main creator, is a YouTuber called PJ (KickThePJ). PJ has a super quirky sense of humour in the scripts that he writes, and it really translates in the look of his films. The most notable element is the use of such bright colours, and costumes. In our pilot, we didn’t give a second thought to our set, and just went with whatever was in the location when we arrived. Bad idea. Beth, who played Arabella really stood out, which was good, however, it made us realise what we could have achieve in terms of visual effects, had we put more effort into the background.

As ‘homework’, before planning the look of future episodes, I want to re-watch PJ’s most successful web series, Oscars Hotel. The show was released on Vimeo in 2015 and was hugely popular. I think it’s popularity was majorly due to the originality and artistic integrity of the episodes. The colours were bright and made the script even more outstanding than it already was. I think by focussing on this, an element we pretty much put in the backseat, we will be able to give more emotion to our film.

I’d suggest watching a couple of PJ’s videos, so that you can see what we are drawing inspiration from. Hopefully, if it goes well, you will be able to see that in some of our final work.