Having a one on one meeting with Robin was a great chance to pitch my video idea to him, as I’ve always felt my strongest creative ideas are ones I was not just confident to explain to someone, but actually excited to do. Robin was definitely interested in my idea and it was reassuring that he was quick to follow my thought process from the original observation about a group of friends sitting on a pier listening to their friend play on the radio, to the video I ultimately want to make.

Robin had the same reservations in terms of work management and logistics of the multiple shooting days and locations that may be needed for the video. Trying to minimise this will be important as the amount of time available to film is quite limiting, so focusing on smaller, more contained scenes may be the way to go. It was great to bounce ideas off Robin and he brought up interesting ideas on shortening the video as well as having one of the scenarios not immediately transition the song but to briefly pause and have the character turn the radio back on, which should tie the world of the video together more, as well as throwing the audience off slightly to get them a bit more invested in the video.

I really enjoyed the process of pitching this idea as I knew going in it wasn’t set in stone as I hadn’t filmed any parts of the video yet, so it was great to come in and bounce creative ideas around someone with a fresh perspective. I think what made this process so effective was the fact that my video idea is centred around a theme and a simple concept, more than a narrative or even a cause and effect structure, so the content is free from constraints and can be looked at as simply, does this strengthen the theme and does it flow with the other elements of the video?