Live Brief 2 - Presenting My Pitch

Today the class presented their separate pitches for the Live Brief module, this consisted of a developed idea for a short film, along with a suitable film festival and additional research or information that backs up why your idea should be in production. Each pitch ranged from between 10-30 minutes and gave everyone enough time to clearly present their idea and answer questions to help us understand the pitch. There were quite a few impressive pitches and ideas that seem suitable and possible for students to produce, and I thought during the pitches which role I would be able to fill for that specific crew and what I could bring to the various projects. If I'm not directing my own pitch or idea, my key roles to work on are scriptwriting and editing, so for any productions in need of writers or editors, I will be able to offer my help and join that crew.

My pitch today went better than my previous pitches have gone presentation wise, but the strength and depth of the story were underwhelming and not up to the standard of certain other pitches. I'm proud that I was able to retell my idea and parts of the script from memory and didn't need to use a slide to explain or write down tons and tons of writing which sums up the story. I feel people become more involved and invested in a story if they're been told about it passionately than reading it off the board. I know problems the tutors had with my idea were related to how underdeveloped the script and characters seem and I understand that as I wanted to rule out the first two acts to the story which would remove the development stage of both the story and its characters. It was more of an exciting, heavy dialogue scene with action but lacked depth and meaning. I've learnt new presentation and pitching skills from this experience and the preparation I did before it, I will be able to take and apply these skills to the next and any future pitches, but make sure the story they're backing up is solid and worth producing. After everyone pitched and had there say, the tutors discussed the best and most suitable ideas for the module and narrowed it down to five projects for the course to work on.

The five pitches that got chosen were Glenn's, Nathan's, Ryan's, John's and a fifth to be chosen soon.