Cheeky mid-pitch doodle

Pitching petrified

We just had our big rehearsal pitches today and although I felt exactly the way the title of this post suggests.

However, luckily it didn't go as badly as I feared it would go. I just kept reminding myself to breathe, think and then speak. There are still loads of room for improvement and the ending of my idea still needs to be rehashed, but I think the rest of it came through okay.

Now I need to just go back to the drawing board and try and build my story from the beginning again to see what I am missing.

Here are some of the final concept art I used in the pitch:

I really think I'm going to use the summer to pitch my story to different people to see how they react to the story and get different opinions on it.

What dreams may become (1998) - Vincent Ward

I recently came across an old film that I had once watched when I was around 8 or 9.

I didn't remember much about the plot but even though I hadn't seen it in about 13 years I could still remember specific scenes from the film.

Not only was the story itself beautiful but each scene was composed wonderfully.

I loved how each scene and the environments in the afterlife was presented like a painting.

From romantic landscape paintings to scenes that seemed to echo old renaissance paintings.

(Still from the film)

(The Garden of Earthly Delights)

The visuals of the film really serve the hard topic of the film really well. The surreal world the protagonist experiences are not easy things to depict, yet we find our self completely submerged in it. 

I also love the way the same shade of blue and red and tones of yellow keep reappearing through the film. It acts as a perfect guide in order for to help us pick up on the certain visual cues and how the real world is echoed in the afterlife.

Watching it really makes me itch to paint again.

Winter in Easter