Feedback of my ideas

 After pitching my idea 1 to my production group and teacher, I received positive and negative feedback. From this, I have reflected upon it and made various adjustments to my idea in order to improve it. 

I may have to shorten this opening sequence in order to include enough detail for the opening sequence to make sense, and to make it clear to the audience as to what is happening. Instead of filming the whole kidnapping of the office worker and then him being executed, we could shoot just the scene of a team of male teachers, dressed all in a black disguise, jumping out of the van and collecting items to use such as a pillow case, rope and tape. 

Another adjustment could be to only shoot a scene of this 'innocent' office worker being hooded by a pillow case and sat in a chair in a dark, empty room before one of the 'bad guys' comes forward and shoots him. This climatic ending of the opening sequence is the start to the titles appearing. 

Another adjustment which could be made is to think about the setting and location to shoot this. A suggestion was made that we could use a local basement to shoot the dark room scene. This is because it would be difficult to fin d the right setting at school.

To improve my pitch of the idea, I could have made it more clear as to what the opening sequence would contain and how long it would be. Next time I could do this as a powerpoint slideshow, in order to include more detail and also relevant links such as inspiration from other books or films. I also could have included more detail into the location, what the lighting would be like on the set, eg. a dark and gloomy room, and also finer details of which the camera could focus on, such as shots of paper work, photos, ropes, and weapons. 

However, aside from the negatives, I received plenty of positive feedback. My idea seemed ti be approved and intrigued the people in my production group.

 The action genre fitted with the other ideas that had been pitched in this call with my group. The scene of the men emerging out from the van was highly liked by the members within my group because it would be fun to shoot and we could get some cool shots in order to hook in the audience and build up to the action in the rest of the film. 

We all seemed to agree on the suggestion of leaving this opening on a cliff hanger, to allow the audience to guess as to who is the good guys or bad guys in the opening. My idea of having this opening sequence as a scene from the ending of the film is a good idea and so that the audience can then establish when watching the rest of the film as to who is good and bad or who the villain is. 

My group and I also agreed in having no dialog, as it is harder to cast the right actors/actresses in the sequence. We also decided that it would be better to cast teachers as the bad guys in the sequence as it would look more realistic.