D.B: Contribution to Pitch

We all went round to Laurel's house when we first worked on the pitch. We worked together to set out the layout of the Pitch and then split up the categories between us so we could work on the concept of each of them.
My contribution:
Treatment:
> I wrote the treatment:

Lighting:
> Some of the lighting will be natural day light because we are shooting outside during the day and this will be hard to control or manipulate.
> When Isaac is miming or dancing in front of the green screen we will use low-key lighting and use the lights in the drama rooms at Tech.
> We will also use low-key lighting in the garage to create interesting shadows and silhouettes of the dancers.
> The end of our video will be lit with street lights inspired by Flume's video Drop the Game and Gorgon City's videos. This will be because we will film during the night and it will add to the Urban atmosphere and melancholy nature of the narrative.

Props:
> Our track begins quite suddenly and we want our main character to walk up and press play on an IPod attached to speakers that would then start the track.
> We want to use smoke to represent youth and how people are more prone to addiction when stressed or sad. We will use reverse and forward shots to show the smoke going in and out of his mouth.
> We want to use gold paint to link to the lyrics and we may use the ECU shots as a backdrop for the green-screen shots.

Camera Movement:
> When we film the dancers or any of the happy scenes with Isaac we want there to be a lot of camera movement to emphasise their joy and invoke empathy with the audience. This was inspired by the music video for Wekeed - Wild Child
> We want to track our main character whenever he is moving to connote prevalence.
> When Isaac is miming or dancing in front of the green-screen we will use a tripod to keep the camera completely still.                                                          

Cutting:
> We were really inspired by Gorgon City's video that cuts from the front of a character to his back but with the same camera positioning. We want to imitate this but use a faster cutting rate between the two shot. We practiced this in a video using footage we took from our location reccie.
> We loved Bombay Bicycle Club's video Carry Me when it cuts between two characters in different shots but on the opposite side to the screen and it cuts between the shots so fast that you don't realise they're not in the same shot. We practised in the video we edited as well.
> We want to use stop motion to look as though Isaac is turning gold. This will link with the lyrics and fit in with the conceptual part of our video as we will reverse the shot after to take the paint off him.

Band Image:

> We have considered Dyer's theories of star image by representing Snakehips as illusive and creative with the visually stunning conceptual shots of the green screen and gold paint.
> We are following the paradoxes of the star being absent and present by obviously not having the artist feature in the video (this is conventional of dance music artists anyway) but present because our main character will break the fourth wall and looks directly at the camera.
The star will seem ordinary because he is wearing casual clothes and is present in everyday locations but extraordinary because he turns gold and is seen in 'other-worldly' locations with the green screen backgrounds.

Digipack:
> We want to do something similar to the Tourist edits because they are relevant to Snakehips' previous advertising.
> We want to use the kaleidoscope shots in the edits.