Feedback From Pitch

In a recent lesson we had to pitch our ideas to our teacher and fellow class members. To ensure we got all of our points across, we prepared a short PowerPoint that covered topics we felt needed to be discussed, this consisted of things such as our narrative, ideas of where we could shoot, our target audience, potential props, music, shots we could use, how we would edit the opening and so on. Our pitch lasted about 15 minutes and we made sure that each person in our group had a chance to speak. After we had finished presenting we listened to some feed back.

Firstly our teacher stated that he thought we had clearly put a lot of thought into what we wanted to do and how we could do it, however, he did have some comments about how we could improve. 

During the pitch we mentioned how we would like our opening to be in the form of flashbacks. We would start the opening with the victim relaying her experiences to a police officer and then use a voice over so that she could narrate whilst the flashbacks were playing. Although our teacher thought this was a good idea, he feared it may be a little hard to follow for the audience, he questioned how we would make it clear that the clips were in fact flashbacks and suggested we consider making them black and white to show the time shift. We thought this was a good idea as we have seen this used in thriller films before and agreed it was effective. We also suggested using fades between the clips to make it clearer that they were indeed flashbacks in which he agreed. 

In addition to his first piece of constructive criticism, our teacher questioned if we had found a middle aged male to play the role of our kidnapper to which we said no and admitted we planned on using a member of our group dressed up in males clothes and not featuring 'his' face. Our teacher said we could do that however it wouldn't be as effective as using a male as it may be clear it is a female due to our stance, we do not hold ourselves or walk like men so it may be difficult to portray ourselves as one. With this being said we have decided to cast one of our dads as the kidnapper as we think it will be more effective.