I did my first mock pitch online in front of my Studio peers and James. I was near last to ‘present’, and no one had any plans for something as extreme as my idea. Which isn’t a bad thing, there were a lot of fantastic ideas that I am looking forward to seeing develop. I was actually afraid that I had misinterpreted what the boundaries of the course were, and that I was too on the fringe for what we were meant to do. Luckily I was merely stressing myself out for no reason. I got a very positive response from my pitch, though I believe I could have done far better in person, but that’s just something I need to adapt to for the foreseeable future. I remember that someone found my early visuals ‘scary’, this is fantastic news to me. It means that I am on the right path to eliciting an emotional response from people with my work. I was afraid they were too abstract.

My work up until this point has been fragmented parts of a more complete vision. I started off by distorting old archive footage. Then i moved onto creating entirely new visuals from scratch using the tools in After Effects. I want to combine these two to create something more than they are individually, and I think it would be a good idea to add images as well. If i want to create landscapes, and hopefully animated characters I need more than just singular elements, I need interaction between elements.

I cited the punk scene as more of an influence than glitch art, which is true to a extent. I listen to music near constantly everyday, after all sound is the most important part of a cinematic experience. My taste in music is very wide, there is little to nothing I don’t enjoy, but my most listened to genres are Industrial, Punk, and Rap. These aren’t mutually exclusive either. When I envision a project I use music as a way to keep focus on development, which leaks into the tone and style of my pieces. Despite this, I am not setting out to create a music video, but I think I will be looking more into music, as there is a way to incorporate it without it being heard. I will extrapolate on this more in another blog post after I do some new visual experiments.