Pitch and Pitch feedback

This is a video of my pitch for the song and video I wanted to produce for this project. I was rather nervous about doing this because I did not know what my peers would of thought of my awkward song choice. Even though I stuttered at points, I believe that I presented my idea very well.

This is a video of the feedback of my presentation. I believe the overall feedback was good as it gave me a range of both good and bad things about my idea to make it better. Some Strengths of my pitch that was brought up during the feedback was the representation of the actress I chose to be the singer in my video. I chose Alex who is a girl in my year. They all know of her as well and thought that her 'appearance' and 'reliability' was thought through very well. Another strength of my pitch was the narrative theme that I chose. In my pitch I displayed and described how I wanted a nature, alice in wonderland, fantasy feel to my video. Niraj said he liked the idea as it was 'different' and Kieran liked the contrast of the innocent girl and the dark surroundings that I wanted to portray in my video. They all felt that the themes were suitable for the age range I had chosen for my target audience. Some Weaknesses of my idea included the fact that my narrative was not 'engaging enough'. Ms Lownes said that my ideas was good however our aim is to create a music video that is unique and stands out so it gets lots of people talking about. However the thought of a video where a girl is just simply going through a forest is not engaging or unique enough to stand out above the music video competitors. Another weakness was the fact that my song was actually 5 minutes long which is rather long for a music video and the thought of seeing a girl in a forest for 5 minutes is quite mundane and monotonous. It would of been possible to ask for a radio edit however it would of just caused extra stress on top of my production. I also had to ensure that I did not make the video a pastiche where I copied Alice in wonderland. I only wanted to use the 'essence of innocence' as ms Lownes said. Some Improvements I tend to make with my idea is to maybe input a more engaging and interesting narrative where the actress is actually doing something rather than running about doing nothing.

I have chosen to work Kieran. We both had pitched different songs and ideas. We have agreed to work on his song choice because we believe it is the better idea where we can both integrate our ideas and display the best of our technical abilities. His song is called Acquired Taste by Ace and Pearl. The genre of music is Rnb/Hip Hop. We both know what we want to do and are always coming up with new, out of the box ideas. Some things that we have used from my pitch and idea is the actress 'Alex' that I intended to use for my idea. Pearl in Kieran's song choice has a very soulful yet timid voice which suits Alex's look almost perfectly. 

An example of a music video that we want Alex to sort of take ideas out of is:

We want Alex, the girl, to be mental. We both like the sort of crazy vibe Rihanna is giving off in this video. During the chorus, Rihanna's awkward angles and dance moves are sped up, this gives the look of a possessed, crazy girl which is somethings that would be good to recreate.


As well as the actress, we have also used the location of the forest/woods that I aimed to use in my idea too.

An example of a video that we believe that we want to take some ideas out of is: 

We both like this video in particular because in the 'forest' we want a running scene where our rapper 'Dominic' is running from the singer 'Alex' who is mental. In this video the protagonist is running in the forest, the type of shots such as close ups to her feet and her looking back would be something that we would like to recreate.


Even though both our songs have a different genre, I believe our ideas have complimented each other pretty well and I hope that we can get our ideas to practice in order to get the grade that we aim to achieve.