Reflections 12- Pitch Developement (In Progress)

During my first tutorial with Leah, I got feedback that helped me think more about my idea of music and memory and it got me thinking about previous films we've watched. It reminded me of a rave video we watched that I found really interesting. It then got me thinking about raves and the sort of memories people have at them. However, instead of looking at the larger raves, I want to look at the more independent, 'underground' raves. Illegal raves are also another interesting topic.

I pictured the film starting with glitchy footage of someone dancing at a rave, and distant, muffled audio matching the footage. I know people who've been to raves and talked about how they forgot half of it because they were intoxicated. I also discovered the use of drugs at raves also, from various forums (shown below).

A great way of getting research for this, will be to ask some of my friends who regularly go to raves. I feel I will get interesting results because they will each have different memories of their experiences at raves. Depending on the feedback I get, I may go about basing the film around one person's memories.

I want to interview different people who are regular's at raves and talk about any memories they have. I will include the interview footage as a voice-over, as I want to focus more on the visuals. I also looked at glitch effects, and found them interesting and I would definitely like to incorporate them in my film. It also emphasizes the idea that memories can be forgotten and 'glitch' in time. I feel it will be interesting as some peoples memories of the events that happened will be blurred and fragmented perhaps due to being intoxicated, which I can then portray on my film.


                                                                 (The effect at the start)

I found an interesting blog about raves and the memories people share at them. Looking at this, it has perhaps given me the idea to re-enact those memories that the different people have.