Pitch and Feeback

Our pitch to the class about our film idea and research went quite well. We got a lot of feedback on what we should work on, add to our research and what we were already doing well. Here is our feedback from our pitch from our teacher Nicola:

And here is the feedback on post-it notes that our classmates wrote about our pitch and our research and ideas; these will be very useful to us when we are developing our ideas and going back to our research to add to it.

After reading Nicola's feedback on our pitch, we realise we need to think more about how using one zombie in the film will work as an antagonist by himself. A convention in zombie films is the 'apocalypse' kind of storyline, where something triggers a zombie virus that is contagious by a bite and then transfers to most of the population with a few survivors. In our trailer, we want to challenge these conventions by making our 'zombie' character not fit to the usual zombie rules such as contagiousness, more mental ability than mindless zombies and going after a certain group of people rather than just running after any living person. As a group we have looked at Fright Night, which includes a lone antagonist in the form of a vampire. Vampire conventions are usually similar to those of zombies; a group of vampires working together rather than just one. We can take ideas from this lone antagonist and see how he works by himself to take down the other characters. Our group has also taken inspiration from many other zombie and slasher films - Scream has helped us to develop our ideas through the idea of teenage parties going wrong and teenagers watching a horror film together. We have each planned to take some practice shots of locations tonight and to put them onto the blog. Our group plans to create our music for the film trailer in Garage Band on the iMac. Lauren created a short horror/thriller music track in A2 fortnight which is similar to what we will need to create for this trailer, so we will be taking ideas from this already made track in Garage Band to develop the horror music.

Our classmates' feedback about our pitch and ideas was overall helpful. They mostly commented saying that our ideas were original, but we just need to develop them a bit more and add to our blog. They again said think about how the zombie character will work on his own, and so we will be thinking more in depth about making our own conventions. They also said think about practical elements such as locations, props and costume - we have decided on which locations we might use and are taking test shots tonight; we will also be thinking more about what the antagonist will use to kill and what the characters will wear.