Pitch..perfect?

Today we presented our Thriller pitch to the class. It was a really good experience listening to what other groups were creating. To know that we have a concept quite different from everyone else’s is also quite exciting. Even the way in which we approached presenting our pitch stood out from the others.

I was really happy with our overall feedback from the class and from the teachers. This seems like a final comment to make but overall it reassured me that my contribution to the pitch was effective. The fact that most of the feedback was in relation to the video I had produced, tells me that it was memorable to people. The moving image is something I always look for when choosing a method of study, and as this is a film class, it seemed like a logical way to resonate with my fellow peers. Looking closer at their feedback, we got advice from others about different Australian landscape films which have names I can’t remember (but will follow up on with Paul who has an impressive knowledge of so many films), and also advice from Jennifer about ways in which the feature length films such as Goodnight Mommy (which she has seen in full) differ from the Thriller trailers we presented.

Of course this pitch was about more than just inspiration, it was about hearing feedback from the people who will decide the marks. I think one important piece of advice was that we were wrong in our decision to make a trailer, because we are essentially creating a short /a series of mini scenes as opposed to a 2.5min trailer. This was a collective decision because for us, we would rather film more and understand more about our narrative, rather than creating something solely for advertisement.