Pitch Feedback

I presented my potential ideas for our music videos for my A2 coursework, after the presentation, I listened to feedback of my idea from my peers. The feedback I received was mainly to do with how the set would look as in the studio, there is limited resources, and making a set look realistic within the small space on next to no budget is almost impossible.

What I learnt from pitching the ideas was that there are many constraints in the production which I need to register and not let my imagination run wild as there are realistic constraints in place. One of the songs that I chose was very well known, therefore, it may not be a good idea to use the song, The song in question being 'fell in love with a girl' by the white stripes, and told that if you look on any top rock artists list, they will be there, however, i have looked through many and they haven't been on any of them. Another thing that I was told to look out for was imitation of previous years coursework with my 1920s idea for the caravan palace song, this is due to a group who was A2 last year doing a song by the same artist and as the band has a very distinctive style, I will have to look out for ways of making sure that the idea looks as original as I intend for it to be. Another point that was brought to my attention was that I intended to have a dancer for one of my ideas ('how did we get so dark?' by royal blood) however, the song is a fairly heavy rocky to which one of the dancers in my class pointed out that would be extremely difficult to choreograph and may that a choreographer may not be able to show the style of the song through dance, therefore it is likely that the dance in the song will not be there, that means I will probably need to rethink the song choice. I learnt also that the most popular of my ideas is the 1920s idea and the white stripes idea, for the white stripes song idea, I need to do the animation where it looks necessary and not cheesy and rethink the bar idea as getting a bar for a set and being able to fill it up is probably unlikely, for the Caravan Palace idea I want to stylise it to how Baz Luhrmann styled 'The Great Gatsby' (2013) and make it big and bright with a modern twist though.

These pieces of constructive criticism from my peers will guide me in changing my production so that it can be as believable as being a real music video as possible. Story rethinks on one of them is in order and set design for others will be a key part on making the video look professional. Also some tutorials for after effects would be helpful for the 'fell in love with a girl' Idea.