First Pitch and Feedback

After a large amount of gathering information, arranging and planning out our thriller we were finally ready to pitch to Matt. We gathered a large amount of information revolving around our thriller idea such as the background of the male character such as looking on other men who has murdered. A particularly interesting man we researched was the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

We used his as a basis for our character as he was well known for being a rather charming man who was a loving man meaning nobody would have suspected a thing due to his naturally trustworthy characteristics. I myself did background research on him and because of this our group used him as an inspiration towards creating our male character. He also appeared on the mood board we created that refelected the meaning and happenings of our thriller. When it came to arranging we needed to specifically decide where we wanted the camera and for what shots to make sure we would have a variety of options to use when it came to the filming process. Lastly with reguards to the planning we mapped out everything we wished to be present in the thriller such as: cast, props, location, costume, back story and the continuing plot. This is all displayed on my powerpoint that is soon to be posted.

Matt came in and spoke to each group individually. He did particularly like our idea as it was thrilling and was well planned out and decided so we were all happy from our original ideas to the build up of what we wanted to have as a finishing product. After pitching the idea although he liked in there were many flaws that resulted in us needed to re-think and possibly change our idea. Our backstory was the first issue, this is because it was pointed out to us that the concept of a serial killer gone mad typically falls into the horror category even if no horror is displayed on screen during our opening sequence of the thriller, however Matt approved of our back up idea but in order for that back up idea to work we had to change the concept of what happened in that hotel room.

In every movie there is a structure that follows - Opening Sequence - Act 1 - Act 2 - Act 3 and our thriller idea would fit in the Act 1 section meaning it does not strictly count as an opening sequence to a thriller. For this reason my group took on board all of the points made and we have begun to re-think of ways we can keep the element of the phone call and keep the spy story but manage to change to an opening sequence that fits into the Thriller category, we have much to think about but are thankful for the criticism we received from Matt and will take it all on board.