Final Project Concept Pitch

Today we pitched our concepts for our final projects.

The logline for mine: "Discovering she has the ability to tap into the universal knowledge that is stored in her subconscious, a suspicious secretary becomes overwhelmed by the Pandora’s Box she opens up as a result of trying to harness her power, in order to uncover a scandalous secret."

This is going to be a short, 10-minute film, with a heavy element of overlayed graphical design somewhat similar to that in the movie Stranger Than Fiction.

An example:


Once I finish more of the rough designs in After Effects I'll post them up so you can see for youreselves what I have in mind.


The pitch went rather well, I thought. I'm really excited to get to the production stage with this project; it has a lot of what I ultimately wish to be encorparating into film in it, so I'm happy.

One point of great dissappointment with the pitch was that their where only 2 instructors critiquing on the concepts once it came time for the students who are streaming into Film to present their concepts (myself being one of them). But the part that is a real kick in the head is that throughout the entire day of presentations, there was not a SINGLE instructor doing a critique who was from a film background!

Imagine that! A "film school" and we don't even have a point of view from someone with film experience to give advise on the projects relating to film! I'm all but a little upset about that. Basically, as things stand with this school now, I definitely wouldn't recomend VFS to anyone. It seems to me that this place is concerned with profits first, image second, and the students third.

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Random Updates

Bad news first:
My computer decided to shit the bed, so I'm being forced to buy a new one (BOOOO-ERNS!).

But the silver lining woudl be that I get to upgrade from what I had, for less than what I paid for my previous laptop. It's been a week now of only being to get on a computer when one of my housemates vacates for a while and it's driving me nuts, I don't have jackshit to do with my days! :(

Good news:
I'm fresh into my stream in the VFS Foundation Program, and I'm finally able to focus my studies on Film!! Hurray!
Directing, Story Developement, and Cine & Location Sound seem to me like they're going to be my favorite classes this term.
Sound Design would probably be interesting, but the instructor is far too tangential and I don't actually remeber learning anything from the first class we had with him... although I can tell you his life story and the history of Xerox, Apple Computers, Adobe, and the conspiracy of why the price of gass is so high...
Pre-Production and Art Direction just sort of seem like they're going to be a bit of a bore -- Art Direction moreso as it seems to be a needless reitteration of a few previous classes from terms 1 and 2.

This term I'm going be preparing my final project for term 6, something I still have a lot of thought to put into...

Another developement is that I may have the opportunity with a few other classmates to shoot a short film down in the Carribean (Antigua) after schools done, with a bit of a budget aswell. But as far as I'm concerned, that's mostly still up in the air so i'm not investing too much of my expectation into it right now. I'll have more on the situation as it unfolds.

Peace ya later,
Mathew Joki Esq.