Pitching Our Thriller Opening Idea (Ricardo,Antonio,David & Akshay)

Yesterday our group had to pitch our idea on different aspects of our story 'The Innocent' to our class. We had a mood-board to explain all of the different types of features such as; Props, Location, Characters, Inspirations and Costumes which would be involved in the opening . Plus to aid us about trying to present the first couple of minutes of our story, we had a storyboard which I drew earlier in order to give a visual representation of our ideas. Also if that wasn't enough we had a time limit to follow whilst explaining our chosen features, it was about 15 seconds each.

Antonio spoke about : Location (Where we will be filming and directing)
David spoke about : Characters/Story (What characters will be involved, Summary of the story)
Akshay spoke about : Props (What objects/props we need)
I spoke about: Inspirations and costumes. (What films gave us ideas, What we will be wearing)

Advantages about our pitch

• We were told that we had good timing for the features that we had and that everybody got something to say with equal amounts.
• The Mood-board was very organised and well set out
• We all spoke fluently and coherently with no signs of hesitation or worry 
• The drawings on our story-board were clear and visible

Disadvantages about our pitch

• The class did not say anything bad about our pitch, but our teacher did point out that we didn't have an Animatic storyboard, which was fine but it would of been nice to of added it in. (Our group lost track of time.) 

The reason why we did this exercise is because it showed progress within our story and how it has evolved from where we just started think of ideas about thriller openings. It was a good experience for our group and we also learnt that this technique of pitching is actually used in real life in order to present a film idea. 

Ricardo