Unit 1 - A1 - Pitch Evaluation

What went well about our pitch is that we were able to explain and use key terms in order to explain our idea thoroughly. We had already known what we needed to do for our story line and already possessed some basic ideas which could become more complex on how we wanted everything and prepared our PowerPoint to make sure it was well presented and it was eye catching and it presented what we was going to do in our film and the props and equipment’s we will use in our film and we had expanded on that and explained it to our audience why we needed each prop and equipment. Even though at points we did improvise, we used the notes and bullet points to be able to come up with a clear plan for our short movie.

In our pitch, we explained what our story line was in a very concise way, we chose just to explain the beginning, middle and end as there were some grey areas as to what would happen in between these scenes, We then went on to explain our choice of characters/cast, props, costumes and location and as always giving reasoning for why we chose the specific locations or why the cast was chosen in a particular way.

For our pitch, we also had to explain whether our characters were stereotypical or not and if so why. The only stereotypical character was the little school girl because we had explained how vulnerable little school students can be and how they like to go out sometimes and just have fun. We had also explained the moral behind our film and we had a message to pass through our film and allow someone people to relate to our film as we all may have a little sibling at that age or similar to that age so they are aware of what could happen to students nowadays.

In order to improve our pitch, we got feedback from our peers and the feedback which we took on in order to improve our pitch was as an individual, I needed to ensure that we were ‘Pitch Perfect’ in the sense that I needed to get my head down and focus in order to ensure that all that we did beforehand ensured that we were all ready to pitch our ideas as there was occasions where I myself was complacent. Furthermore, We should have rehearsed beforehand and made sure that everything was covered in our PowerPoint slide to decrease the chance of grey areas to our peers and also the level of anxiety beforehand which led me to say ‘erm’ or be less confident.

To improve when we was asked questions, we all should have been on the same boat in the sense that we should have all known what to do and how to respond when questions were answered rather than one person or two (Me and Christiana) answered all the questions whilst Yazmin stood there and also, ensured that we were on the same boat in the sense that we have a concrete idea of our story line and what happens.

To improve our pitch we should have explained our plot in more depth, this would have occurred if we clearly discussed the story line beforehand and had a clear idea of how each character would be like in our play, the costumes, how they would act and generally had a clear idea of everything.

Overall our pitch was very good as we left small gaps for feedback however as with everything there were still areas required for improvement. There were good explanations and well throughout concepts however it needed to be further discussed in order to conclude ideas an organise everything needed to make these ideas possible.