Working together

Me and a Nick Booth have decided to join forces. We decided this because we both want to do something ambisious but doing it alone may become problematic with just one person working on it. Our idea has been split into 3 separate ideas. Nick got into contact with Tim Allen who is composing the piece for the Twilight Grand finale. This piece of music is one continuous composition but it still has three distinct flavours. These flavours are:

Unite which is all about the early days of Sheffield and people coming together.

Arise which is about how Sheffield became a industrial giant.

Alight which is more about the landscape of Sheffield and night and day.

We know this because we have also been sent the lyrics to this composition. Our idea is as follows:

For Unite we want to use a high speed camera to film florissant liquid preferable the liquid from glow sticks, then do interesting things with the glowing matter. We want this part to be more abstract and playful to draw the viewer in rather than being to literal, which I think is rather boring. At the end of this section we also plan on having all the colourful liquid come together in a glass to show cultural diversity. Arise on the other hand talks about the steelworks, I've have links with a rolling mill so it would be nice to go and film the red hot steel for this section, then later add in other footage of sparks and possibly some iconic old shut down factories around Sheffield. Then finally for Alight we are planning on writing up a questionnaire, then walking the streets of Sheffield asking the chosen age ground what their favourite parts of Sheffield are, then tallying them up and choosing 2 key locations to go film at using time-lapse.

We have taken inspiration from this video for the slow motion goo, in this advert paint is put onto a speaker and what is seen here actually lasts for around 1 millisecond. Both of us find things in slow motion fascinating, majestic and just plain awesome.

We want to achieve something unique with this once in a lifetime opportunity but we don't want to make anything to literal, however you could argue the both the steel works and the time lapse is very literal but we do still have to stick to the brief, we just want to put a new twist on thing.

We presented to the client and these are the slides we used: