Pitching Thriller Storyline

Today in class we proposed four ideas to the media technicians Adam and Matt. These four ideas we had narrowed down from sixteen in total. Initially each member of the group developed four rough ideas: we had our first production meeting and narrowed this down to four ideas that we developed slightly further in the production meeting. Today the technicians wanted to discuss our ideas for the first time and aid us to build on some of those ideas or in some cases give some constructive critism and tell us that one of the ideas was completely unreailstic in terms of filming. All of this constructive criticism i feel really helped us as a group as we were able to see other peoples perspectives on our ideas and what they thought we could do better.

We pitched our ideas to both Adam and Matt, both of whom have very different preferences when it comes to the style in which the storyboard is written. Matts preference is fast paced action packed thrillers whereas Adam is more favourible towards very realistic, simple plots. Having both these views meant that we were left with two storylines that were quite action based however Adams poibt of view kept us thinking that we must be realistic and not stupidly overcomplicated when theres really no need for it. After The meeting, having taken into account the thoughts of the technicians we sat down and tried to decide what we, as a group thought was the most original and favourable plot that we had come up with out of the four.

We decided against using the deep sea diver plot. The actual story itself is interesting and could have been very different to others. However after thinking about this realistically we decided that it would be too complicated to film in the amount of time we had been given, especially as it was underwater. Also the fact that this was only an opening title sequence and that there would hardly be a good story following this event in the title sequence.

We then discussed the storyline about the girl runnning through the forest going home, and coming across a den where someone has documented her life through photographs, the person living here was unkown to the audience. We decided that the filming would be possible to do however it was a very average story and there was nothing striking about it that made it stand out, and as a group that is what we were trying to achieve. As a result we decided against this story as well and we were left with 'Wanted' and 'The Poisoning' (not fixed name).


Looking back on todays lesson i found that this exercise of getting a different perspective on ideas was very useful and enabled us to narrow down our ideas more effectively.