What I am saying for my sections

Bullet points on slide: 

Plan to create an entertaining and informative film with a personal approach

a focus on celebrating brightons local history and inspire nostalgia

follws the history chronolgically using a timeline

uses soundscape and other visual elements to bring past to life

local historian interviewed

collection of our own footage as well as archive. 

We plan to make a short, linear film which takes both a personal and also informative approach to the heritage of the dome. The film will follow the history of the dome chronologically by the use of a timeline, which will be over layed over our footage the dome as it is now. This timeline will lead us into different episodes of the history of the dome. There will be 5 episodes, narrated by a local historian whom we will interview for the project.

The episodes will start with the stable yard, then move on to the war barracks, hospital, tea dances and then as a music venue. Each episode will be a multi-media mix of our footage (of stables, dancers, the dome, hospitals) which will be both re-enactment and “real life” footage, as well as archival film and photos, and even stop motion.

We want to focus on Brighton's history and inspire nostalgia, and will be dong this by having a sound and visual ascetics which will bring the past to life. We will create a evocative, multilayered sound map of the dome, which, as the camera tracks around the dome, will make the memories seem to jump out the walls. We also plan to interview people who might have had experience within the dome that they might be proud of, or want to share; this will keep the film personal and interesting.

Want to stress the importance of local history

The legacy of the dome to Brighton.

Want to make people proud of their heritage

Focus on human interest (personal)

The dome is an icon of Brighton, and it holds a very rich heritage to not only the city but Britain as a whole.  Because of this, the film will be educational, but also have a personal, nostalgic feel to it. We’d like the film to not be a history of the dome, but a history of the people who have inhabited the dome and given it a special place in their heart. We feel this would be acheieved both by the interviews, and also by our own re-enactment.

We would like the viewers to come away from the film thinking that the Dome is a place for everyone, with reflections on all of England today, and we would like local people to feel proud that they have a place of such interesting history on their doorstep.

However, we also want to re-iterate the educational value of the dome; this is why we have chosen to also use archive footage- we would like viewers to see how much the dome has changed and all of the interesting periods its gone through. We will do this by doing graphic matches between old and new, and by the use of archive material mixed with our historical narrator and our own sounds.

Military Barracks and concert hall

We will then present using the interviewee how it was transformed into a theatre and market and also as a place where soliders were billeted

Soundsca[e: Of an audience and a hospital

Visual: archive footage, old tickets and programmes footage.

The next stage in our episodes is the period between 1850 and 1921. We will use the narrator to explain how the town brought the dome, and it became a market and was transformed into a concert hall, and then how Indian soldiers were billeted there, and it was used as a hospital. We will create a soundscape of a concert hall by the faint tunes of an orchestra and the applause of an audience, while we will evoke the military barracks by having a soundscape of soldiers feet and cries of pain (?) The visuals will be sweeping views of the theater as it is now, with graphic matches, newspaper cuttings and old tickets. For the hospital, we will focus on our own footage of the Indian gate, and also on our own re-enactment and old photos.

We have also created a table of the minutes of one of our meetings:

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Pitch Preparation
2.14.2013		12:30		Silverstone Social Space
Type of meeting	Meeting to prepare for the pitch to the Brighton Dome next week.
Note Taker	Ella Thomas
Length of Meeting	30 minutes.
Attendees	Robyn Furtado, Cal McLoughlin, Louise Linehan, Ella Thomas
How do we create our Presentation
Discussion:
We discussed whether we should use PowerPoint or the online tool Prezi to present. We soon decided that we would
Prezi as we thought that it looked much more professional and would therefore impress the clients, and also because it is
online we can also imbed links and videos more effectively. I volunteered to create and design the Prezi because I feel
very comfortable with the software, starting by creating a framework that will be fleshed out later. We also decided
to use a red velvet background on it to mirror the seats at the Dome and gold for the font (the colour of the logo).
To do:			Person Responsible		Deadline
Prezi			Ella		18th Feb
Pitch Topics and delegating speaking
Discussion:
We thought we should divide the pitch into sections and the spilt those between us to present, starting with an
introduction as to what angle we will approach the project with and why we want to do it. We then suggested that we
explain the content by breaking down how we will depict each period of history. Then, we decided to end the
presentation by talking about our roles and the schedule. We then picked which subjects we felt most comfortable
talking about and promised to prepare some notes for me to put in the Prezi.
Action Items			Person Responsible		Deadline
Ella’s notes: Timeline, Royal Stables, Wartime.			Ella		17th Feb
Cal’s notes: Content, Organ.			Cal		17th Feb
Louise’s notes: Musical Heritage, Orgainisation.			Louise		17th Feb
Robyn’s notes: Introduction, Military Barracks			Robyn		17th Feb
What examples will we create?
Discussion
We all thought it would be beneficial if we create some example of what we intend to do in the film. We decided that we
would like to get as Robyn volunteered to go out the next evening and film a time lapse of the Dome as the sun sets. Cal
said she would make some example effects (eg. Timeline and graphic matches) and I said I would complete the sketches
I had done for the storyboard. Louise volunteered to start working on the soundscapes and I agreed to help her with that.
It was suggested that we might make mood boards but we thought it unnecessary in comparison with our other examples
Action Items			Person Responsible		Deadline
Storyboard drawings			Ella		17th Feb
Time-lapse			Robyn		17th Feb
2 Soundscapes			Louise/Ella		17th Feb
After effects			Cal		17th Feb

Here are also some of the forms we have made (Risk assessment and consent forms) 

Heritage Project Release Form

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for_______________________ to create, copy, reproduce, exhibit,

publish, or distribute any likeness of myself or my belongings to be

used for the purpose of creating this “ ”.

I understand that the above uses may include, but are not limited to

videotapes, films, sound recordings, photographs, displays,

brochures, Web sites, multi-media programs, or any other type of

promotional medium existing now or in the future.

I further understand that by granting this permission I am irrevocably

giving up all rights and claims to monetary compensation for any

future uses of this material by the above persons & organizations.

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