Whilst making my Pitch

okay whilst i was making my pitch i re-read the brief, and i realised that i had the wrong sort of idea, i thought that i had to make and write a magazine article, which i had done, i had taken photo's and found pictures of articles made by several magazines. but then obviously after reading it again i realised that i was wrong, i need to make an advertisement for the CD or DVD and not make an article advertising it and going into detail about my band. so i then got my magazines back out and tried to find some CD advertisements of bands CD's, but i was trying to find bands that are similar to diabolical dispatch. in the end i found a fair amount of examples all of which i put on my pitch power point.
because i realised of my mistake the night before i had to pitch my idea to the class, i didnt have too much time to re-write everything, so i mentioned when i was talking about that particular page in the powerpoint that i did make the mistake and that some of the pictures i had found weren't relevent. but i think everyone understood my mistake and saw the examples that i had managed to find and i am hoping that they understood what the type of advertisement that i wanted to achieve was. i didnt get any questions about the CD advertisement so i think they all understood.

List of Some of the stuff i was asked after my presentation

* i refferred to myself as an 'out of the ordinary' person several times during my pitch. my audience asked me afterwords what i ment by 'people like myself' which is what i said. i pointed out to the class that what i ment was, people that go into leicester every weekend, they love music of all kinds but generally punk, emo, gothic metal or rock. also people like me would wear, the majority of the time, dark clothing and wear alot of black make up. i pointed out that a percentage of people like myself go out drinking in parks and causing people hastle on a regular basic purely because they have nothing better to do. also some people like myself, if they had problems at home or problems in gerenal, would cut theirselves (self harm) and do things that are over the top, purely becuase they cant deal with they're problems. i pointed out that my idea was to show people that not all people do that, not all people like myself go out and terrorise people for fun or drink alcohol purely becuase they have nothing better to do during the day. Also not all people like myself self harm and dont deal with they're problems in a sensible way, my aim is to prove to people that the majority of us deal with any problems the same way everyone else would. we are the same, the only differences are, our taste in music and the things we like.



*where am i going to be filming the actual footage?
my response was that i am going to be filming inside and out of band practice (stay free music) and in a few places within the town center. i am also recoding from the tk max balcony. at this point i was asked how was that possible, because usually noone is alowd on the balcony itself, however i have been into tkmax and i have gained permission to go up there to record the footage.



*how are we going to know who the characters are ?
i have decided to put a few introductry photo's at the begining of the video, and to do this i may get the band to extend the intro.



*how is a break up going to show the audience that people like yourself are happy the majority of the time?
i am going to show it, so that lex and rorie break up, but then she deals with it in the same way anyone else would and then i'll show her having a great time with her friends and being generally happy, hence breaking the thoughts that if a 'out of the ordinary person' (like myself) does break up with their boyfriend or girlfriend they dont just go all sad and then get drunk at 12 in the morning and they dont self harm.
obviously there is a percentage of people that do, do that sort of thing but my message is that not all of them do it, so it isnt fair to just assume that they all do.


''jeez i really cant remember that much about the hole questions area of my pitch, all i remember is this bog spider running across the room and then half the girls in the class screaming. i hope i get the video of the pitch back soon. it'll jog my memory a bit more. so then i can add in more of the questions and my responces and then write out the things i could do and change so that my video would be really good :)''

Presented My Pitch

okay today i watched two groups pitches, asked them a few questions about their ideas and got some positive answers from them.
then during my second media lesson, i pitched my idea to the class. it went well so i thought, but it was scary doing it because i was on my own and everyone else in the class did it in pairs or in a group.
i pitched my idea and a lot of people asked me things about my idea and the reasons behind why i said certain things, such as i kept referring myself as an 'out of the ordinary person'.
i got told that i had missed a lot of crucial details from my power point, however because the class asked me all the right questions all the information that was missed out was then given to the class via the answers to the questions.
i was asked at one point how was i going to inform the audience of the characters were, at that point i came up with the idea of the video opening with a pictorial shot of each character. this shot thing would introduce each character so that the audience knows who they are looking for when i am recording in the towns center.

Mr Smith and Mr Ford have a recording of my pitch and the questions and answers so that i can pit it on here.

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Natski's Pitch Finished

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Story board & Pitch

since i last posted a blog i have started to do some mock up drawings of my video plan, sort of like a story board. i have only got 4 shots done soo far which isnt much but im having to fit it in with doing the pitch and with all my art work because there is alot of homework that we get in art, so im tryin to jiggle it about so i have time to do it all.

here is my updated pitch, ready for me to present to the class. (it's in the next post (Y))

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Nat's Pitch

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13th September 2009

Today, i have;
*added around 6 more steps to my detailed plan for the video.
*re-written the interview format for the magazine cover.
*arranged for Rorie to play the part of the 'ex boyfriend' in the video.
*re-edited my pitch power point, and created an account so that i can add it to my blog.
*added a slide show of my power point.

7th september 2009

in the past few days every time i have tried talking to Jamie about our media work and what we each need to do before our pitches need to be sorted out, but it was hard to get hold of him again. so i have spoken to Mr ford about what i could do and have came to the decision that it may be best to work on my own as 95% of the work done, has been my own anyway. so i have mentioned this to Jamie, so that he knows that he needs to find something to do for his new solo project.

1st September 2009

i have started to create the pitch (powerpoint) for when we go back to school so that we are able to pitch our idea to the class. i have managed to get a hold of jamie. and he is coming down later on today to do some work on the project and to hopefully complete the power point (pitch) that i've started. And add to the video plan.

Jamie has just been at mine. he was here for around 6 and half hours. we got a little bit done but i thought that i still did the majority, i did try to encourage jamie to add in his own ideas so that the project isn't completely my work. I asked him if he had done any other work during the holiday that he may have left at home however he didnt give me the slightist impression that he had made any effort to do any work before today. He contributed a few ideas such as the camera angles for the scene where 'lexi' goes onto the stage. oncee we had figured out a few of the camera angles i suggested that we do some more work on the pitch so that he could have some input on what we are doing. we added a few things from my blog to the power point and simplified it so that it didn't look like a huge essay on the power point. i asked jamie several times to help my pick out the individual photo's for the powerpoint so that the audience (for our pitch) could see who would be staring in the video. we managed to finish writing up the powerpoint and then jamie decided to go before we discussed which parts of the powerpoint we would each cover when pitching our idea. i then went through our pitch thinking about who might do which pages. i then fowarded the powerpoint to jamie so that he could also go through it as we had discussed. I got fairly annoyed that we only got a little bit done, because i have so far done a fair bit of work, and it seems as if jamie has done nothing other than what we have achieved today. The thing that annoys me most is the fact that i had to keep saying, 'jamie, can we actually get this done?', 'Jamie put that down, thats not yours' (as he kept picking up random things around my living room that belongs to my family), 'are you gonna write anything?', 'do you have any ideas about what we could do in this scene?', 'can you just go through this and add in your own ideas for the pitch please' and 'Jamie i feel like i'm taking over because i have done the majority of this can you please do something'. This, i didn't i would have to do, and i felt really nastey for doing it but no disrespect to him but i don't want him to get all the grades for my work, because i think thats totally unfair. I think i am going to talk to one of my media teachers about what i could do to sort this out.