The TSBFC Have Spoken...

Pitch Date Scheduled-
After another group discussion, the decision to use Vanessa Carlton’s: ‘A Thousand Miles’ was cemented. Further research into the video's genre, which we established as: Piano Rock, saw several opportunities to be somewhat creative with costumes, camera shots and scripting. Several themes throughout the video were conveyed; in particular: a rather consistent Gothic styling. We decided to really run with this concept and encompass it as our music video’s general theme. Codes of Gothic styling we have chosen to feature are:



The group's chosen: red, white and black colour
scheme. This is to be incorporated into as many
aspects of the video as possible, in order to really
convey the Gothic styling.



We plan to frequently use of quite prominent roses,
be they props, white screen background images
or patterns on Melissa's costumes.

As part of Melissa's make-up, we intend to
have heavy, black eye make-up-
consisting of mascara, eyeliner
(pencil & liquid) and black eyeshadow.

This means that we will be able to incorporate the look into each of our individual ancillary tasks, as well as our overall video and pitch, in order to maintain that essential consistency between them all.

Also, TSBFC have issued each group with the date for their pitch. Our deadline is: Friday 15^th October 2010. A massive amount of work needs to be done in order to get our pitch approved but I’m confident we’ll manage. It was decided that the best and probably most efficient approach would be for each member of the group to research their assigned subject area in extreme detail and then report back to the rest of the group their findings:

• Mood Board & Location- Rebecca Barrett
• Vanessa Carlton- Melissa Randall
• Ancillary Tasks - Jennifer Surtees
• Genre- Lily-May Smythe

and then collectively, we are going to develop the script.

Once this is complete, we intend to create large (so that they can be seen from afar during our pitch) mood boards reflecting the wide range of topics our research has covered. The major reason for this is because sometimes during a pitch, it is much easier for images, colours and symbols to convey the messages it is often difficult to communicate in words, hence our decision to also hang the costumes rather than merely refer to them. Alongside this, we are also preparing a PowerPoint presentation with corresponding handouts detailing our plans for the website and storyboard.

The group is focused and aware of what needs to be done; the pitch deadline looms ever closer.

Lily-May Smythe