Initial ideas

Our initial idea is to focus on the people in the city, rather than the city itself. We thought about what we would want in a future city, and came to the idea that there would be no sexism or racism. We also had the idea of showing the differences between the past and present, and show the passing of time.

Our final idea was to create a promotional video and posters to show the past, present and future. The video would focus on the social issues that people face, such as sexism and racism.

We went into more details about how the video is going to be set up and what it’s going to contain. So the video is going to be a parody of a cheesy infomercial for our utopian city. We wanted to show a bigger difference, so we decided to skip the present time and just focus on the past and future. There is going to be an actor that is talking about some people in the past that were discriminated against due to their race or gender, so a black working man, and a stay at home wife. While the actor is talking about these two people, images of the characters is going to be shown to the side of him. Then the actor is going to switch to the topic of the utopian city, where these people can do whatever they want and are equal, this should show a big difference from the part where he says how the characters from before are living. To highlight the differences there are going to be images of the same characters but looking more futuristic, this will help to show the differences. Then an image of the utopian city will be shown in the centre of the screen. We were also going to have two posters that feature the city, this is because we want them to advertise the city, as the video focuses on the people and social issues more than the city.

Team roles

Our original tasks

Nikki- Leader, Write script, Write casebook with Sophie K, Find an actor.

Pawel- Drawing 6 characters, Drawing a cityscape.

Cameron- Storyboarding the video.

Sophie K- Making a poster set with Sophie H, Writing the casebook with Nikki.

Sophie H- Making a poster set with Sophie K, Filming the video with Jo.

Jo- Editing the video, Filming the video with Sophie H.

Tasks we actually did

Nikki- Wrote the casebook, Filmed (Did camera work).

Pawel- Drew  characters.

Cameron- Made a storyboard (We didn’t use it), Made the logo, Hired out equipment,.

Sophie K- Drew the cityscape, Made a poster set with Sophie H, Edited the basic cut of the video, Found the actor with Sophie H, Hired out the greenscreen, Made the final PowerPoint presentation.

Sophie H- Made a poster set with Sophie K, Filmed (Sound), Found actor with Sophie K, Made team report, Colorized logo. 

Jo- Edited final cut of video, Added after effects to the video.