Well the first pitch is over and done with, I am quite pleased how it went and the feed back that I go but before I go into more detail, here is the link to my presentation for you to take a look:
http://prezi.com/pdlo2znmf9of/present/?auth_key=cpolopz&follow=8lhnjpqlcrgw#4
I wanted my presentation to be clear, precise but not boring to look at. I wanted to be clear on three key points, and I would expand on them in the presentation. The three key areas was "what" "why" and "how".
Firstly starting off with "What", in this area I talked about what I am wanting to do for my honours project, what inspired me and what I have been looking at for the past four weeks. I talked about my experimental video that was part of a module for third year. The video that I created last year was a visual representation of what you feel when you hear loud music. I then went on to explain that I want to expand on this idea and more specifically, visualising music. The key areas that I have been looking at currently were colour theory, the history of visual music and different types of techniques that current artists have been experimenting with. For example, animation, performance art, film, cymatics, electronic software, physics and music videos etc. The noticeable difference that I noticed in the different techniques was that they where split into two different categories, art that literally visualised music or art that enhances and creativity expresses music.
Then I went onto "Why" so why do I want to do this project. I explained that out of all three years is was the only module that I really really felt motivated, inspired and passionate about. I have so much more to experiment and explore within this domain. It will also give me a year to see if this is really where I want to take my life/career. I also explained that it will improve my editing skills as I have been working in only final cut pro so I need to learn and be confident in using after effects. This project will also help me build up my portfolio for jobs once I finish university.
Finally I went onto "How". This is where I went into talking about how I was going to go about doing my projects. As we are only 4 weeks in I have mostly been focusing on reading books, doing small experimental media tests and doing extensive research on my domain. I also am planning to start doing weekly video blogs, which sums up what I have learned/found out and my thoughts on my development so far. In these video blogs I plan to put into practise what I have learned during the week from after effects and incorporate this in my weekly blog. I also plan to do an extensive amount of media tests experimenting with different styles and techniques. I then showed some of the tests that I have already done.
The feedback I got was great. Belinda, David and Lyle. They all really liked my presentation and was very impressed with the way I presented my work. David seemed to ask most of the questions, he asked what area I was particularly interested in to which I explained that I was particularly interested in colour theory, the psychology behind colour and emotions and shooting in film as aposed to animation, performance art, VJing etc. But I will be doing some media test with each technique just so do some trials. He also asked me about my third year video and why I put the drum in a volcano. He also made it out that i had taken my film and twisted it into representing music and why did I do it. I explained that before the volcano I did many media tests with out the volcano and the film had no narrative, context and story. I said that I felt it really effected the final outcome of the video and by adding some context to the film it gave a narrative to the film and was easier to understand. I also explain that I did not twist my film the way he insinuated and that I simply edited it so that the visuals and sound were in sync so that the viewer was not confused. I think he was just trying to get me to justify why I did what I did but I answered all of his questions. Belinda was very interested in my domain as she was very impressed with my 3rd year video so has a lot of belief in my project. She said she was very excited to see what I was going to do with this project
In summary I am very pleased with how my presentation went and will keep on going with my project as no one seemed to give me any ideas as to what to do, I think they are quite happy to let me keep going in the direction that I am.
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