Feedback from pitch

Yesterday we presented our pitch to our class, this consisted of:

- Jamie's analysis of the opening sequence of Juno
- Ashley's genre specific (british social realism) analysis of the opening of This is England.
- Josh talking about the general synopsis, mood board, and some of the ideas we're exploring, as well as trying to express the sort of tone of the piece we're going for. (All these are for the most part detailed in previous blog posts mood board, location scouting etc)

We then gathered the feedback from the rest of the class to our ideas, analyses and other general good points (and bad points).

The response to our choice of analyses was generally very positive, people saying there was a "briliant choice of opening clips" that the "related genre film This is England was a good choice" . they commented how they were "relevant to the genre" and that the "examples [of openings] link with what they are doing".

We also has no negative comments when it came to our synopsis and general ideas for the piece:
"good synopsis-sounds interesting"
"ideas for own opening sequence are good"

Someone noted that we "explained the synopsis clearly and gave examples of shots to be used" and commented on how they thought it was good we'd "made a connection with their analysis and [their] own plot" and that there were "lots of conventions mentioned with 'historical context'", I think this means we have noted how previous social realist films have been made/shot and have used this as inpsiration/an influence on our ideas and shooting.

All this is good because, it probably means our idea is a pretty/relatively good one, as a goup of people who had never heard anything about all pretty much thought it sounded like a good idea for an opening sequence, which is encouraging.



Sort of aside from our actual ideas we also quite a lot of positive comments about our blog and way of working. Two of the groups commented that we had researched well ("well researched", "good research in opening sequence"). One of the groups said the following about our blog:
" [It] showed the groups trail of thought as they progressed from the analyses of film openings, where they got ideas, and then you can see them turn it into their synopsis and mood board"
This is good because this is effectively what we're trying to do in our blog: make it so you can follow our thought process, and subsequently, actions all the way through as they happen.