Pitch Presentation - 19/01/09

In today’s lesson with Mary, we were given the first half of the lesson to finish off planning and organizing our pitch. Luckily we were given half the lesson to finish off planning, as the previous night, I had thought of a new and easier concept, however it was too late to inform the other group members that night. Therefore I did my task which was to write a summery of what the opening sequence is about, and what type of audience we were targeting, as well as the group’s task for the new concept. That way if they did not like the new concept, then I had work prepared for the original idea for the presentation, however, if they were fund of the new idea, and actually preferred it rather than the old idea then I had already written every one’s task/work done for them, that way all they had to do was to say what part they want to talk about, and elaborate on it. With further discussion, we made a group decision to go with my new idea; also in addition we asked Mary for her opinion on what she thought would be best. As a result, we felt like the old idea would have been to complicated and long to film, as we have only got 2mins of filming time, so we decided to make the new idea official. This was a big risk that we took as we made a dramatic change to the overall dialogue last minute, however it all turned out good as Mary was fund of the idea, and the way we presented never reflected the fact that we had changed it last minute, as in you would have never known we changed it last minute unless we told you. Overall the pitching went good, and we were able to film as long as our storyboards was complete, which it was, as I did all that the previous night. All that was left to do was to add in a couple more steps to the storyboard which Mary suggested we should do to add more flavor to the scene. Due to this, Zeneath had to redraw and copy out the original storyboard, including the new steps which Mary advised us to include.
Briefly summarizing the new storyline, I named it “The Woman Killer”. The opening is based on a sophisticated woman, who lives in London, who has urges to kill men. She is like a predator, and men are her preys. As our opening can only last 2minutes, we can not put so much into it, if we no it would over run, so basically, I decided to only do a short intro, introducing the woman and her first prey. It begins with a smartly dressed woman, who has a sophisticated look, dressed in black with killer heels on. It would begin with an extreme long shot/birds eye view, showing the view and scenery of where the location is. We would then show a long shot of a young smartly dressed male looking over in the direction of where the woman is. Automatically, were influencing the audience to think the male figure is going to do something to the woman, whereas it is the total opposite. We then show a long shot of the woman introducing her into the scene, and her character. We would then do a close up on the woman’s feet, then hand hold the camera steadily, tracking the woman’s feet as she walks. We also are doing the same thing for the male; however we would not be showing anyone’s point of view, as that would be giving it away. So at the moment we do not know who is in front of who, whether it is the man or woman, it is a mystery. We would then show an extreme close up of the woman’s eyes, then a close up of her face, showing her face in fine detail, so that the audience can see her facial expressions clearly. Again we would do the same for the male. At this point, the female’s paste of walking is increasingly becoming faster, and if all were seeing is feet, eyes, facial expressions, along with different sound effects, making the overall feeling very suspenseful, us audience are then already becoming nervous, as we are unsure of what’s going to happen, however if anything, we are expecting something to happen to the women. The paste then picks up again, and all you hear is heavy breathing, along with faster foot steps, with some other sound effects. Then “boom”! Her bag falls. The camera then shoots a medium close up, showing her bending down rushing to pick up all her contents, a close up shot will then take place, showing how eager and nervous she is to pick up all her stuff, this shot will show her hands shaking, showing how keen and impatient she is, again sound effects would be contributing a great deal at this point to contribute to the tension growing. She then gets back up, and the cameras are back focusing on her feet, then at the mans feet then all of a sudden, we would have a point of view shot, however not showing from anyone’s perspective, the camera would be filming straight then it will pan back towards the audience showing the woman holding up a knife and killing the male. The camera would then fall to the floor with the victim, and would be tilted to the side, only showing her killer heels walking off into the streets of London.
I thought that this would have been better than the first idea as it would be much easier to film. I feel like the previous idea was far too long, it would have been hard to find three adult volunteers who wouldn’t mind acting, and it did not really have a thrilling effect to it, which is why I thought of this idea. Obviously this is just a brief summery however there are a lot of other things we would be adding to the overall scene, to give it that overall thrilling effect. I have trust and faith that I and my group can do this properly, and get a good grade. I believe that all it takes it some determination, and a positive attitude, together with our skills, to put together a high quality piece of work.