Pitch (Analysis)

The reason why we decided to do a pitch to promote our opening titles was to get constructive feedback. The way we would do that is by asking our peers to fill out a little slip which had questions connected to our pitch. The questions we asked were:

• Do you like the name? why?
• Would you watch the film? why?
• What do you like about the story?
• Are the titles clear?
• What would you improve?
• Rate the film out of 5*s (5* being the best)?

We thought these questions would give us a good insight on how to change the opening titles to make it better for the audience, and covered all the topic we needed to. We got 10 feedback sheets back and we have analysed them:



The first question which was asked was. Do you like the name?
We asked this because we didn't actually have a name at this stage because we decided to do this at the end so it related to the plot and the genre which we wasn't sure on at this time. So what we decided to do was ask our peers to think of a name after our pitch which they did a few example of what we got were names such as. Lifestruck, The walking Conor, Hunted, The life of PJ. We took these names into discussion.

The second question we asked our peers to talk about was. Would you watch the film?
We decided to ask this to see if the plot sounded interesting or to see if we sold the opening title well. 7 out of the 10 said that they would watch it. We then asked they why in which 5 out of the 7 said because it looked interesting. the other 2 that said yes was because it was a good style. But we will also take the constructive criticism which was that it sounded boring. We are looking closely into why someone found it boring and try and sort the problem out, but we understand the thriller genre isn't for everyone.

The third question which we asked our peers was to talk about was. What do you like about the story?
We thought this was a good question to ask because if gave use an idea on how affective the story line was and improvements we could make on the story line. The feedback we got for this question was very positive it seemed that most of our peers thought it was an interesting storyline and well thought out.

The four question we decided to ask was. Was the titles clear?
This was an important question to ask but at this stage of when we did the pitch, we didn't have a title we only had our production company name. So our peers couldn't answer this question, but later on when we get our titles sorted we will get the to review it and hopefully get some feedback on improvements.

The Fifth question we asked was. What would you improve? 
We decided to pick this question because it is ok getting the positive feedback but it is important we get feedback in which will make us improve and widen the target audience. From the feedback from the peers we have decided to improve the storyline because two people said that it sounded boring. We have decided to increase the storyline and make it bigger because it was very short and wasn't it enough detail.

The sixth question that we asked was. Rate the film out of 5*s (5* being the best)?
We asked this question so we knew where we stood and how well we sold our opening titles. The feedback for this question was very good as 8/10 and 2 put 4. I believe this is good but there is still more for improvement.