Unit 1- A1 Pitch Evaluation

This video shows our media pitch about the short film we will be making (Me, Ariana and Yasmin) 

I thought this was pretty easy because we combined all our ideas together as they were relatively close to each other in terms of theme and genre. So we combined all our ideas together. I'd describe that as a strength.
Another thing we did well was going in to detail with what influenced our film and target audience as well as the morals which. In order to back this up we added a video to our slide to show that the main genre is horror and there's a kid in the play which sorts of voices the age group and target audience. We also gave an insight of the equipment needed and that to me was obviously absorbed by the class as nobody had a problem with it.

However, we had feedback's about what we could have improved such as describing the cast in depth and props that we are actually going to use. We understood why that came up because we had an idea of what characters we need but because we are all not acting in it and it requires looking for someone who suits the description and is willing to do it. We will need year 7's but it will be a bit tricky or risky finding one especially because they don't know us and travelling them to the location where we will be filming.


Out of all the slides we presented we missed out making a slide on camera language and more description on sound. The reason i think this happened was because there might be changes when it come to the time we film as our group is quite ambitious.

Here is some some camera languages we could have displayed on a slide (screenshots from Abandoned a short scary film):


This is a Medium shot and this exact shot would be really effective for our short film because this boy-walks-through-the-forest scene is going to be in our film too. The medium shot shows the surroundings as well as the character in one shot which gives the audience an insight of what is going on.

This is Eye level allows the audience to put themselves in the same shoes as the character. For example, if you look at this screenshot you can see that the boy is scared which makes the audience guess and anticipate what happens next. It engages the audience. 

This is the close up which is also another type of shot that engages the audience and give the idea of how the character feels. For example, in this example i can see that the guy is looking on the floor so he's obviously quite scared or if he was to face what was about to happen .


We explained camera movements and angles that we can use and the reasons so we only lacked on shot types.

Now for Sound..

There's obviously going to be dialogue (diagetic sound). I feel like when a character speaks even just once it gives the audience more things to think about. I'd allow dialogue for the little children we might be using because it creates more empathy.

Ambient sound (non digetic) would be great when the child is walking through the forest becasue it synchronizes with everything that is happening.

OR

Contrapuntal  which i think would add to the horror; Imagine a jolly song playing whilst someones just about to be captured. Scary right?


Overall, our pitch went well as we covered most areas and the class clearly understood the plot and what is going to be happen.