Ideas

So we agreed to come up with a couple of ideas for when we next met up and I'll start with mine:

Idea 1

Pictured above - Here we see a vintage esque street party, I thought it would be quite interesting to have ten seconds of this scene, but rather than your traditional families at the street party having various people who make up england in the stereotypical format, so in the scene above we have the weightlifter from the rule britannia videos, and a young reoffender, two hipsters at either side who would probably read the magazine both binge drinking and a fake tanned to the max housewife in the centre.

Idea 2:

So here I thought we could have a really scenic concept art, digital painted, of Buckingham Palace and then have similar to people to the ones at the street party climbing out of the windows. I think there'd be a good split in workload if we did this as well. Just in case you can't read my scrawl above it says that this would symbolise the fact that England's made of many people who all Rule Britannia. The idea would zoom into the flag at the top of the palace and say Rule Britannia.

Idea 3:

The third idea would be to have a black screen with the Orb and the Sceptre on screen, have the hands flash round and wave them with scary red eyes in the background and then the face would pop out and it would be a clown maniacally laughing. Basically symbolising that everyone's crazy.

Idea 4: 

This one was David's idea.

It's quite difficult to explain it took me a while to get my head round but basically he envisioned having minorities sat round a tv, watching british propaganda (symbolised by the union jack) at the same time they are being watched by lots of creepy realistic eyes blinking at them, symbolising the government. I basically suggested a few changes, that maybe instead of minorities we should use controversial subcultures, with people who would actually watch the vice videos, and then we could have the vice logo on the TV. 

I decided to redraw the idea to get my head around the concept and symbolism some more. We decided to use this brief, because it was clear David was very passionate about it, and I thought it would be easier to go with.

The Symbolism:

TV - Symbolise british propaganda,

People Watching - the british public, varying cultures and subcultures consuming the propaganda

Eyes - symbolise the government watching over them

The suit man - the typical british patriot 

The knife - lengths they'll go make sure that people are following british are the traditions, the man’s Power and forceful, masculinity the british culture is empowering to men

The dinginess of the room - appropriate setting, lack of money

We changed the symbolism of the tv, to the people watching around watching VICE Rule Britannia videos, and the suit man representing both the government and patriarchal british people, being angry with his knife.

For the next time we meet up we made some to do lists:

For Me:

- Story Board

- Character Designs, rough sketches for pitch board.

- Print Brief Analysis and The Contract

- 100 words on the idea (which I can use from this blog post to put into the pitch board).

Dave:

- animatics (I'll send the storyboard to him asap)

- A rough sketch of the suit man.