My production pitch

1. Creative Film
Proposal
ALASTAIR SIMPSON 18406116

2. Synopsis
 A short film about a bad psychoactive drug trip.
 Main character is spiked at a house party and tries to get back to room
whilst experiencing the effects of a spiked drink.
 Whilst travelling through the house, the main character discovers strange
happenings that are unexplainable to them.
 The main character can see different things like distorted images and
colours that are too bright which correspond with a psychedelic drug trip.
 The whole video should be between 4-5 minutes long

3. Art form
 I would say the art form that I would be using in my creative film would be
a surrealist art form.
 This is because the things that the character will be seeing throughout the
journey will be of that art form.
 Since we looked at surrealism in a previous lecture, I thought it would be a
great art form to explore in my own way whilst having inspiration from
other sources.
 I would like to bring surrealism into a realistic form and not look into the
visual art aspect of it, I would like to create some of my own real visual
surrealism elements within my creative video piece.

4. Inspiration
 Gaspar Noe – creates films involved with the psychology and movement of
psychedelic drugs and how people behave and react whilst under the
influence of them. I would like to use his technique of a single take as well
as the technical camera skills he uses. (His use of moving the camera
upside down and sideways.)
 Konstantin Plotnikov – He created a short film based on psychedelic drugs
which gave me inspiration to edit in a similar fashion to him. (His use of
bright colours and motion blur.)
 Salvador Dali – I have seen much of Dali’s work in the past which has also
been an inspiration, his surrealist portraits and other paintings and
sculptures have made me think that I would like to incorporate some
strange objects or creatures in my creative film.

5. Target audience
 15 – 25
 I think that this age range would be a good ballpark as people within this
age group tend to experiment more as they are going through college and
then university, sometimes with drugs.
 I chose this age group because this short creative piece could raise
awareness about how scary and dangerous drugs are.

6. Moodboard

7. Bibliography
 Kroenert, T., 2018. A bad trip to the pits of human experience. Eureka
Street, 28(23), p.3.
 Extremism in Britain. New Extremism in Cinema, p.117.
 Harper, G. and Stone, R. eds., 2007. The unsilvered screen: surrealism on
film. Wallflower Press.
 Balakian, A. and Balakian, A.E., 1986. Surrealism: the road to the absolute.
University of Chicago Press.