Pitch

Prior to creating our film we were made to pitch our ideas to our peers and our teachers. I was incharge of writing the title of our film and the explanation behind it, explaining what type of thriller we had opted for, chosing our target audience, planned location shots and drafting a rough production schedule. It was quite nerve racking to begin with but as our group got in to deleviring the pitch I became more relaxed.

Acting upon feedback we decided to change the title of our movie as initially it was entittled the children's playground. Conversely we changed this as their were very limited references to a playground in our movie and so therefore the title wouldn't make sense. Additional feedback from Mary and Dan was that our film appeared to be too 'ambitious' and that it would be too prolonged and delayed at getting directly to the source of action if we were to incorporate all the locations we intended to use. They also felt that shooting in the forest and only the forest would have a larger effect and that the other locations would stand as too much of a distraction.

Initially we intended on filming at nightime however we were informed that this may not be a good idea as the quality of our filming would be very poor. We later on learned that it's easier to make a light film dark then a dark film light.

As an element of mise en scene we planned on using a mobile phone, however our teacher's weren't keen on this idea as they noted that this is a typical commonly used prop and we wanted our film to be individual from others. Furthermore we planned on using alcohol to begin with but decided that this would have been an unnesscessary distraction.

Other feedback given was that our production schedule was to 'rough cut' and that it needed to be more detailed. Acting upon this we made a new production schedule of which was more satisfactory.