Thursday, 7 September 2017

Pitch & Feedback

When reviewing our initial ideas, we thought that the third idea, spoke to us the most. This was the following; a teenage girl goes missing and her allocated friends go on a mission to save her, using clues sent to them from an anonymous source - the kidnapper. They finally find her and reveal who the kidnapper is.

We were able to pitch this idea to members of our class and media teachers. Here is some footage of us in action, along with the Google Slides presentation that we used.





Thankfully, Google Slides delivers the opportunity to enter a link on an electronic device and ask questions about a document presented to them, thus creating a 'Q&A History' (question and answer).
Here was some questions/feedback that we got from our audience.




To answer these questions; we believed that the amount of characters we had were fine, as conventionally, short films can consist of up to 7 characters. However, we have now decided to just have 2 main characters, the protagonist and antagonist, instead of the 6 we had as we wouldn't be able to explore each character in the designated time frame. We were also thinking about just having the film set in the school as the fewer the locations, the quicker the narrative will get across. It also magnifies the ages of the characters and appeals to our audience of 15+ students. Perhaps the kidnapper could be one of the pupil's teachers.
We will portray the open narrative ending by finishing the short film with a low angle close up of the protagonist when she finds her friend. This will conclude the narrative, but leave it up to the viewer to determine what actually happened to the boy - is he dead or alive?
The sound will also determine whether or not this ending is effective. We now need to plan what different sounds we would like to use in our short film and search for them.

The idea of maximising is a good idea, so we thought we would reduce the certificate and remove any graphic images that may appear as the clues. We also aim to reduce the intensity of strong language to medium/weak.

As for the last question, this was our plan. We set out for the boy to already be kidnapped. The events in the short film would have occurred a few weeks after the kidnapping. The idea of using flashbacks to illustrate the kidnapping caught our attention and we have decided to take this on board. As the protagonist finds the clues, each clue would be followed by a short, significant flashback. This way, the narrative will get across to the audience in a more clear, understandable way.

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