Tagged: PITCH

REFLECTION 9 – THIS IS MY PITCH

*This is a summary/transcript of my 3 minute pitch from Wednesday*

Like everyone else in this class, I think we can all relate to writing about trains, but this time it happened before I even got on the train. I wont read the observation out, it’s online if you want to read it in full, but in summary here’s what happened.

Last week I was waiting for a train to uni. I was sitting facing one way, while the seat behind me was facing the complete opposite way. I couldn’t hear this woman behind me properly, but she was loud. At first I was annoyed at her, she was ruining my daily routine with her loudness, but when I took my headphones out I could actually hear her words. She was on the phone to a friend named George, and wanted to stay over at his place for a few days, and that ‘he’ had hit her again. And before I knew it she grabbed her bike and left the station. To say that I was shocked is an understatement. I didn’t know what to do with this information.

Now my film doesn’t want to focus on this woman in particular, heck it doesn’t even have to be about this event, but I have made plans in my head about a certain structure on how it should play out, and what I want to play out with a subjective view obscuring what is really happening. I want different angles of the same event play out, from different distances witnessing the same event play out, but the audio will be voice-overs of characters describing what they think is happening. For example from the perspective of a person on the platform across the tracks from this woman who sees her yelling into her phone. This characters voice would probably comment on how she seems so violent towards her phone and is having a very vicious argument. They they’ll comment on how they sympathize with the party on the other end, because he received a very angry call from his mother this morning.

It doesn’t need to be big, but the event needs to be acted out very dramatically and ambiguously. We will never see the true event, only what is permitted from the different perspectives that are given, and the audience will be left to decide what they think is happening.

NINE – THE SLIPPER FITS

S o our pitch went well. Or as well as anything could be. We finalized our ideas and presented them so they have to be good. Rohan and Georgia were concerned for our modern Disney theme, which I admit could be hard to translate, but it’s too late to back out now since we shoot on Sunday!!

So now class has got me thinking again. If our initial ideas don’t pull through what will happen. I mean, our entire video isn’t depending on this one aspect, but it was a critique that Rohan had about out narrative. He said we needed some meat to our fish, and we had scrambled to settle on out Disney idea, but will the video fail if the middle fails. I like to believe that we can still tell a decent story, even if our princesses won’t interpreted well. I mean he can just be a genuine human being and help random ladies out. It’s not too hard to pitch a video like that, I guess we just needed another push to get something up and running that wasn’t just moving from point A to B.

To reflect my ideas of telling a romantic fairytale-esque story, I will look no further than Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” today. It is the epitome of a simple princess theme and hopefully we can get something across that resembles it.