Final Major Project - Why Mine

PITCH DAY!

Today we pitched our ideas and roles to the course and our tutors, to convince them why we should choose this idea for a film or why they should be this role on your film. Everybody either pitched a film idea or a role they wanted to be and there was lots of good ideas.

Chapter Three - Today's The Day 

Today was pitch day and pitch day is important!

Today we all pitched our ideas and now its up to the tutors to decide which of our film ideas will be produced. Which offers the best story, best concept, best opportunity for those involved and most importantly... which offers the best film.

A lot of film ideas got pitched today, with people pitching multiple stories and multiple roles on projects. Many students were excited while others were nervous but I think the best film ideas shined through and hopefully will have made an impression on the tutors.

Drew Brockbank pitched his idea of The Cell and gave a great interesting pitch into the concept and where it would go, also how easy it would be to make as a student film but still effective and look higher quality than a student film. While pitching he also gave a crew list of those who would be working on the film if it was picked, which included:

Drew Brockbank - Director
Mikey Barker - Writer & Editor
Glenn Wilkinson - Cinematographer

This was a very strong pitch and I have high hopes for it getting picked. This would be great as I would be writing the script and it would count as one of my scripts going into production.

I also pitched today my two ideas, Helter Skelter and The Bank Heist. I pitched Helter Skelter first with the intent of getting it picked and produced as its more of an accessible story for students to make but also out of the ordinary story wise for a student film. I think it will be a challenge to produce but definitely viable and would make for a good final major project. After pitching Helter Skelter I went straight into pitching The Bank Heist or (How We Illegally Obtained Our Fortune). I pitched The Bank Heist primarily as just a script that I would be writing alongside one that goes into production. The Bank Heist is quite a large production and would require maybe more than a student budget and such to pull it off, so whereas it is up for getting chosen, I would maybe prefer it to stay in script format as It's quite the task for any producer to organise. Though I am a fan of the craziness and action of The Bank Heist.

So that was pitch day.

There were quite a few other pitches today that included quite interesting stories which I maybe wouldn't mind working on if these fell through, so it's good to know theres fall back plans just in case. The tutors took great interest in both The Cell and The Bank Heist, giving both me and Drew hope into getting our films picked.