2. Why was our pitch successful/unsuccessful?
The pitch was a great success. We managed to get the origin of our idea
across, with our research of short film conventions, i.e. catharsis, mimesis
etc. Then Sci-Fi films and style influences. We were then able to ease the
audience into our own idea. This part of the pitch was engaging with the
audience, we believe that we gained their interest and conversed with
them positively about the narrative, and shooting experience. We think
that the audience took to the idea, and were struggling to pick out issues
with the narrative of the story - we had planned this reasonably
meticulously, so this was relieving. The flow of the presentation and our
articulacy of the pitch was a great success. The only issue could be
perhaps, we planned it so much that we failed to leave room for people to
butt-into the narrative.
3. What responses did we get from our pitch?
After we had completed our pitch we received feedback from the audience. The
audience responded really well to the narrative especially with how we have decided to
use electrical power within the film as it is an original idea to use it as a power and a way to
communicate. The also liked the idea of how the two main characters connected over
how they don’t have their parents, this is one of the areas where there were concerns as
to how we can accurately show how they are bonding without making it too confusing for
the audience.
Feedback we have received that we still need to work on:
Length, Kat and Him scene, 80s representation, continuity issues and how we are going to
make the film flow continuously after we have cut some of the scenes.
4. How have we reacted to these?
THE MAIN CONCERN RAISED
HOW WE ARE GOING TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE:
CUTTING SCENES
FASTER MONTAGE
BETTER PACING
5. Issues raised
● Health of Actors
● Continuity
● Issues with safety of filming
Are there other issues raised by the pitch, such
as location, narrative, character .etc?
6. Are there issues we have encountered and seek
to resolve?
The pitch was useful to us. We discovered that there was a clear issue with the timing of our short.
It will not be short at this rate. This is undoubtedly the main issue. We seek to resolve this by cutting
unnecessary or irrelevant scenes.
- We had a scene in a morgue that was a stupid and ridiculous idea.
- We plan on making the transition between the moors and the town shorter, like only
seconds.
- We aim to make the montage scene condensed, and the pacing of the rest quite
generous with time. This will ensure that we have time to hold onto shots for dramatic
effect, but also make the appropriate elements snappy.
We also have the issue of practical effects, which we need to research in detail until we have
planned each one we will use in detail.
Once we had completed our pitch we had time for feedback and questions from the audience. Mostly it was really good feedback, but there were also areas brought up that were areas for concern at the time. Some of these were able to be corrected on the spot and others were ones we needed to go away and look at in more detail to help have a smooth adventure through the process of filming and editing. We had a positive reaction to the original idea of using electric as the aliens power due to this allowing us to have freedom to show how he uses his powers in any way we can. We have managed to come up with the class that we may want to show what hapened to the aliens parents through the tv showing a spaceship crashing into something.
The concern of the films length was the main concern that was raised from the pitch. With our ideas quite firmly set in stone we have a good idea of how long the film is going to be, however this doesn’t allow us space/time to add in an extra shots that may arise from on set ideas. To resolve this issue we are going to manage scenes, both on set and in post. We have already cut a shot that we were going film on the moore that would have prolonged the scene to an unnecessary length without enough content in the scene. In addition The main montage scene that we are going to shoot will be cut in post to be as short and snappy as possible to allow the feel and content to be put across easily. Moreover throughout the post production phase we will be pacing each scene by carefully splicing shots together. By doing this it would allow for longer scene that are more necessary and give more meaning to the scene/film.
There were a few issues with our concept that members of our enraptured audience shook themselves from their awe induced silence to point out to us. *winks* For example, some people took issue with the idea of an old man being so exposed to the cold as he would be on the moor top, continuity issues relating to child actors potentially getting drastically different haircuts and how we intend to film the scene in which the old man falls down the stairs. The following slide intends to reach a conclusion as to how we shall resolve these problems effectively.
