Further development before the pitch

In our second session as a group, I began to write up our first idea as a powerpoint presentation which we will use, alongside visual examples, to pitch to Luke on Thursday in order to be green-lit, whilst Hannah and Fran sorted out our back-up idea (although with myself still present for the discussions and still able to share my opinion).

We have decided to progress forward with Hannah's 'Heaven' idea given the fact that a band provides a strong performance element and the song is highly contrasting to our first idea. The general outline is that there will be two major elements: a studio shoot (featuring the band in a black room with some coloured lights), and an abandoned house/carpark shoot (featuring a male dancer). The video would be very colourful and we are researching the use of powdered paint and coloured grenades to use.

these are Fran's notes from the lesson

However, although we now have a back-up idea, we are counting on our main idea, 'Pray (Empty Gun)' as successfully passing the pitch, and to make matters easier we have already begun asking our cast - all of which have so far said yes.

For the 'Heaven' idea, our studio shoot would consist of a black set, with hanging pieces of coloured paper behind the cast. An idea of what this would look like is seen in James Bay's music video for 'Hold Back the River':

The type of abandoned building we'd like to use can be seen in Alan Walker's 'Faded' music video:

And the type of dancing we'd like in the video is as follows (seen in Flume and Chet Faker's 'Drop the Game'):