Over the Easter break I began preparing my pitch for the London International Animation Festival brief, choosing to focus in on the Long Shorts category. During the intense rounds of feedback we got in the few weeks after we came back, it really drove into me how subjective everything is and how peoples different experiences in the industry shape their advice. Most of the feedback I got from my two thirds finished pitch was helpful, although one really left me despairing for my idea. Also the feedback on how to present a pitch was vastly different too which led to a lot of confusion within the class. However getting the opportunity so see my peers’ work was really helpful and reassuring to me, as well as fascinating seeing all the different takes everyone had on the different categories.
My actual pitch went really well despite the fact I wanted to throw up all the way through it. The feedback I got was really reassuring – they liked that I had very clearly told the story I wanted to animated verbally as well as visually with lots of style frames, they liked my more abstract take on the difficult long shorts category, and they thought that it was really funny especially the panning section where the characters look somewhat like their instruments – they even suggested pushing that joke a little more. Overall I’m really happy with the feedback and excited to see if my pitch gets chosen!!
