On Tuesday’s class, we pitched our plan for our project brief. My group decided on the fact check brief ‘have women become better educated whilst the gender pay gap hasn’t budged?”, as we feel like of all the briefs, it’s the one that would benefit the most from a recorded re-visualization.

In the very early stages of planning our proposal document, we decided that we would use two presenters for our video. The gender wage gap is an issue that suffers from an incredible amount of misconception and misinformation. Due to this, we felt that a simple yet effective way of clearing up the topic would be to have one presenter argue ‘against’ the existence of the gender wage gap while the main presenter argues ‘for’ it’s existence, teaching the co-presenter the facts about the issue.

While we discussed having a male presenter argue against the issue, I felt that it may be a bit too on the nose to be effective. However, after pitching our proposal we received feedback that having a male presenter would actually be a really good idea and would allow us to reflect the topic’s issues more thoroughly.

Another interesting bit of feedback that we received was the usage of archival footage. We were advised that archival footage could be really handy to use, especially in terms of highlighting a timeline. As we are dealing with statistics about women’s education and the wage gap over the past two decades, we were told that using archival footage of jobs that women have held over the past 20 years would be really handy in creating a visual narrative and further honing in our points.

Overall I  feel like our pitch was successful and the feedback we received was really helpful for us to further define our proposal. I feel like we should definitely take on the idea of using a male and female presenter, as well as using archival footage to make things more visually engaging for the viewer.