Week 6 – Prepping the pitch!

This week in class we had time to work on our pitch presentations for next week. In preparation for “Dodging the Bullet”, Neeve and I constructed the fake profiles of our main characters and established a more definite plot to our own cat-fishing tale. We developed these social media profiles so that we could not only create a Facebook account, but also develop a sample media for our pitch. We hope to creates that lifelike aspect to these people who don’t actually exist by filling their profiles with pictures and things that make them seem like any other teenager.

Dan raised an question with us that we will probably be asked in our pitch. How does our story differentiate from the TV show Catfish? What makes it different? We believe that our story is unlike Catfish in the sense that the TV show gives a definite closure to the situation. They follow up with video conversations with both sides of the catfishing story, and summarise “where they are now” with on screen text. For our story, we want there to be this sort of “unknown” at the end, with the disappearance of our main character, Miranda.

With our fake profiles now constructed, Neeve and I are now in charge of assembling the Facebook Profiles for each of our characters and we need to begin to construct conversations between the two of them. Today Neeve also worked with Quicktime Screen Record to take snippets of Tyler constructing his fake profile.

Let the adventures begin!