film idea pitches

we had to create a pitch with 3 ideas for our film openings. a pitch is a presentation towards a group. askign the group for feedback posative and negative.
the three ideas that my group genrated were:

idea 1:

•Starts with a shot of the victim asleep in bed.

•Jumps to various other shots of a flashback from the victim of her husband being killed.

•You then see the killer from the flashback walking up dimly lit stairs, then jumps back to victim in bed as she wakes up to sounds on the landing outside her door.

•See the door fly open, then jumps to outside the house where you hear screaming.

the feedback we rechived from the audience was that the film would be to pradicatable and very similar to a film that we have seen before.

idea 2:


•First shot is a wide shot of a dark and gloomy lake early in the morning with a old man with fishing gear walking in from the left.

•Mid shot of the old man setting up at the side of the lake, preparing to start fishing.

•A p.o.v shot shows something rushing up behind him, he turns around at the last minute, this unknown creature kills him instantly and he falls into the dark lake.

•The next morning a group of young children find the old man’s fishing gear in perfect condition and a hole in the algae where it looks like someone has fallen into the water.

the feedback that we rechived from this idea was that it would make a great opening. but in ways of filming it would be very difficult and we would struggle on location and the set up would be very technical.

idea 3:

• There is a caretaker in a London west end theatre.
• As he is locking up and switching off the lights.
• There are mid shots showing him locking doors and switching lights off.
• There are some shots to show him doing his work but it looks as if someone is watching him.
• As he goes to lock the final door the camera gets closer to his back creeping up on him.
• He gasps and turns around and the screen goes black.

on our final pitch we rechived posative feedback. the audience suggested locations that would be sutiable i.e. stamford corn exchange, bourne corn exchange. and the schools threatre department. we thought that this idea would be a good idea because of location is easy to find. the audience was very helpfull when commenting on this idea because before we generated our pitch we thought this idea was already very good and that we could use the audiences feedback to make the film opening better.