Preliminary Task - pitch + Audience feedback on the Pitch

The Title : DT
The Genre : Drama/Comedy
Location : School Classroom (Classroom in the T block)
Time : After school (so it is looks empty and gives the impression it's an after school detention)
Characters : Toby (as himself) & Michael (as himself)
Plot Outline : Two friends are in a detention for an unknown reason, this small scene will  inform the audience what they had done, and include a 180 degree rule, Match on Action, Shot-Reverse-Shot and will include a high angle shot, Low angle shot and a Canted angle shot with some two shots.
Roles : Charlie : Director
            Michael : Actor / Editor
            George : Camera man
            Toby : Actor
Here are some photos of the classroom we plan to film in. There are two photos, one shows the doorway into the room, and one shows the middle tables we plan to shoot around.

After pitching, the audience recommended that we should:

• Include more drama in the detention
• Develop characters during the scene and ensure the characters have different personalities so we may feel sympathy for one and build a hatred for the other.
• Include unexpected events
• Ensure there is a sense of realism 
• If we include a teacher, we should make the teacher strict or abusive.
• Possibly create the characters so we dont sympathise with them.

From the audience feedback we plan to improve our work by:

• Focus on the acting of the characters to show their emotion. For example, the charcter who we show less sympathy to may be quite cocky and careless, whereas the other character could focus on feeling silly or guilty about receiving the detention and ensuring he remains quite and just gets on with it.
• The more hated character could use props or the environment to make the scene more dramatic and have more tension, as he could slam the door open or be aggressive with the chair he is going to sit on.
• Realism could be created by the scene being relatable, for example how quiet the room is to correspond with how empty a detention feels. Also, the reasons for the detention should be relatable, as occasionally detentions are given for something stupid.
• Finally, the way a character acts should present why we feel no sympathy for them as they should show no respect for the classroom and its properties as well as acting cocky or smart.

Group roles

Toby : In the pitch i decided that in the task we should do a drama genre as Myself and Michael are acting in the videos. We went to T4 which is the room where we are setting the scene and we took some pictures of what we wanted it to look like. I also came up with what roles and what the task should include (180 degree angle shot, the match on actions shot and the shot revese shot), location, and the time of day. We all came up with the title which is 'DT'.

Michael: During the pitch I gave ideas for the title of the preliminary task and offered to be an actor for the actual task. While the pitch was taking I place I recorded the audiences feedback in my book in order to help the group improve on what we had already come up with as the audience's opinion on the task is the most important. I also helped Charlie when writing up the audience feedback to write how we can use the feedback to improve our ideas and how we plan to implement what they had said.

Charlie: I was abscent from the lesson when the rest of the group decided the idea of the preliminary task, therefore there was no input on this part. However, when I returned I helped, as director, the shots and angles we would use in and around the location of our preliminary task. This also included discussing how we would go around the 180 degree rule, the match on action shot, and finally the shot reverse shot. I also took the pitch that Toby had produced and did the speech part of the pitch. Finally, with the help of michael wrote out the improvements to the scene from the audience feedback.

George: The main pitch idea was thought of by me, we spent a while talking about ideas and the one we agreed would be best of the preliminary was my idea. We all decided the best room tro film in would be my form room, T4, we decided this as it was accesable and suited our ideas and would make it easy to get the shots that we wanted. I helped to dictate the camera angles when giving examples of the shots we was going to try and achieve when it came to filming as I was going to be the primary cameraman.