Initial Ideas

Today in my Media lesson I had to pitch my idea for a Psychological Thriller move to the class, this involved me getting up and telling my class about my ideas. I found that doing this pitch was quite helpful in getting me to think about all the other possibilities for my movie idea, and trying to expand and adjust my original idea became easier. I was being assessed by a fellow pupil called Billy Pidgeon, he filled out a sheet that we had been given which told me about my strengths and weaknesses in my pitch to the class. Although I didn't find this very helpful, because he had mentioned turning it into a crime thriller even though Ms Butler has specifically said not to, I felt it was a good way for him to get his opinions on my pitch across to me without criticising everything I had said. I also got some teacher feedback which I felt was much more helpful than being peer assessed, my feedback from Ms Butler included that: my ideas were simple and realistic so she could visualise it in her head, they were strong and focused on the particular genre I was doing and there wasn't too many characters or suggestions to the whole storyline. This helped me to finalise my individual ideas as I got positive feedback from my pitch which then made me feel like it was a good pitch and I should go on to use it within my group. Once everyone had pitched their own individual ideas to the class it was time for us to regroup and decide as a group with idea we were going to use for our very own opening sequence. My group seemed to struggle with this because we couldn't really come to a decision and stick to it, this frustrated me as I felt that my idea may have been a good one to use. In the end we decided to have the idea of a young disabled girl who was getting bullied at school and not taking her medication, we wanted to do this idea because it's a real life problem and we want to be able to get a message across to people that bullying isn't right no matter what.

This is the feedback I received from Billy Pidgeon: