Film Pitch

Rebecca, Will, Josh and I made a PowerPoint in order to explain our film. Within this we have included the idea that we are going to use for our film opening. This was then presented along with our pitch.

 I have then included the video of my group presenting our pitch to our primary and secondary target audience.

The Pitch 

We pitched our filmed called 'Parental Figure', a psychological horror film. About a dad that has become unstable and now lives in isolation after his wife and child dies. Our target audience involves females under 35 for the primary and males under 35 for our secondary. He then has flashbacks and realises that he is the murder of his wife and child. We then move on and talk about the USP of the film and also the casting of characters and where and when the filming will take place. Also, we add in similar films, micro elements which includes, mise-en-scene, performance of actors, editing and sound.

Feedback

Considering the feedback we saw that we have ran into difficulties with our opening. As we decided to include of the main character a male from our year within school. However, he is meant to have killed his wife and child a while ago, he is still then only 16. This will make the film look unrealistic and therefore not receive the audience that we are aiming for. As well as the age for the male we also had the same problem for finding a young female. We need someone to be able to play the daughter within the film but they must look realistic and for both the ages to correspond together. This then means that we are needed to change our cast entirely and think about their ages in real life before we begin to try and fit them within the film. Also, for feedback we ere told to think about lighting more.Obviously with the winter sun the lighting will be shifting very quickly which will cause problems within our filming as we need to film outside for the most part. We decided to film within a woods so there is the possibility that the lighting could be too dark for the audience to see anything or if its too light it won't be seen as a horror and it will be an unrealistic setting. However, the rest of the feedback was positive about our idea and that the films storyline is unique therefore it will achieve a wider audience. 

What we will change

Considering all of the feedback we have decided as a group to slightly change the opening with regards to the characters and the lighting. We have decided to cast an older male one with the age of around 25. This would then mean that the actors would fit within the target audience and more people under 35 would therefore be drawn in to watch the film. As well as changing the male actor we are also carefully considering who we can cast for our female child actor, We have decided that the child needed to appear in the film to be of the age of 4 or there about. This would then make the film more heartfelt with a little child included in it. Therefore, we need a child that is of around that age as it would make the film realistic as she would then look like she is the males daughter. Also, the lighting is an issue that was raised within the feedback. We have now decided to go out at a set time of day after visiting there before to see exactly when the best time of day is for us. This would then create the best lighting that would fit with the atmosphere of the film and therefore make it more popular as everything will fit together.