The Pitch

We had to pitch our idea for our crime film to the class as a slide show presentation. We received a mixed reaction from our class which were feelings of interest in the idea and plot of the film but also confusion since we didn’t explain the plot all too well. We needed to explain the whole story’s plot if we were going to make into a full feature length film, but the plot for the rest of the film wasn’t very clear since we had only focused on the plot for the opening sequence. Even the name of the film and characters hadn’t been thought of yet, which added to the confusion when the slideshow said, “Working Title”. We did eventually come up with a name for the film which was ‘Powder’ which referred to the state that some drugs are in like cocaine. We also came up with names for the characters which were Jimmy (played by me), Big Arth and Mob Boss (played by Luke M). We chose these names for the fact they sound simple yet smart since Jimmy is just a plain and simple name and Big Arth is the kind of name given to a drug addict, plus we wanted to make the names seem slightly humorous as we wanted the opening sequence to be slightly comical but if we were going to make it a full feature film, we would want it to open comically then turn dramatically very quickly. That was the general idea, much like the film “Click” which was funny as it started then turned slowly depressing, except for ours, we would open ours comically, then have it turn dramatic and criminal. Once the presentation had finished, we received feedback from our peers who told us of their confusion and put forward some suggestions which I have forgotten what those suggestions were to be honest.