From my pitch presentation, we gained some invaluable feedback that will help us to make a decision on which idea we choose, how we plan on filming it and various other suggestions that were given to us.
The majority of the audience ruled out the second idea that we had, which was based on a conventional romance narrative with two best friends falling in love; they felt that this was too generic and didn't allow us to explore more complicated and unique ideas.
There was an equal split between the first and second idea, although we gained lots of ideas that eventually will help us to decide which one we want to choose. The first pitch idea is based around
a married couple out for a walk, when the best friend accidentally kills the husband when drink driving. The narrative will switch between the happy couple and the depressed alcoholic best friend, until the husband steps into the road while the friend is erratically driving. The widow grows close to the friend, who is guilt ridden and grieving. The trailer will suggest that something romantic will happen between them but it will be cut before the audience sees anything. The audience said that they thought the concept was exciting and interesting, with the element of shock that will make it differ from other romance films. They also suggested that this idea would allow us to use a variety of editing techniques as the narrative would mean we could use a GoPro on the bonnet of a car to film the 'accident'.
The third pitch idea was about a romance gone wrong - where a healthy relationship deteriorates as a result of an alcoholic husband being abusive towards his wife.
The cause of the husbands changing attitude is to do with a stressful job, he starts to put work life over his wife and their romantic, simple love starts to turn bitter and twisted.
This idea will hopefully produce an unconventional romance trailer as there potentially won’t be a resolution for this trailer, going against Todorovs theory. The audience who received our pitch said that this idea was interesting as it follows an unconventional narrative that doesn't include stereotypical romance features. They did however question how we would be able to show our technical ability through the editing as it could be very difficult to show the violence in the film; this could be solved by using match on action edits to show different activities merging into one.
From this we will think of the advantages and disadvantages of each pitch and make a decision as to which one we will carry out - there may be chance where we somehow combine the two to create a mix of both pitches.
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