Pitch

 All of the 7 groups in my media class had to do a 'dragons den' style pitch and present their idea for a 2 minute film opening to Miss Foster and the rest of the class. The aim was for the group to communicate their concept within the time frame of about 60 seconds, then with this rough idea the rest of the group would ask questions. The questions and suggestions put forward allowed the pitching group to further develop their ideas. Through the points raised many groups were able to strengthen their ideas by disregarding things that might not work. Miss Foster would then give the final judgement by labelling the pitch Red, Amber of Green. If the pitch was red it meant that it was a complete no and needed to be re thought or a new idea put forward, an amber meant the idea was good but still required development and a green meant a great idea and a go-ahead to film.

I found this whole process iceadibly useful as giving feedback allowed me to reflect on my own idea and how i could improve it. Many of the solutions that the group came up with together I could implement on my own project make it more successful. i feel my pitch benefited as my group was one of the last to present, as we had experienced other peoples we knew how to better convey our concept resulting in a more polished presentation. The classes constructive criticism was still very helpful and enabled us to progress from an amber to a green pitch.

The positive response we received when we told people our idea convinced us that we were on to a good thing. 

We decided to film our pitch so we could go back and listen to the comments made by Miss  and the class as they could help prove useful in the future. Also it will be interesting for us to have a record of the birth of our idea so at the end we can  look back and see how it has grown and evolved.