Film Pitch

In todays lesson we were put into groups by our teacher to ensure that we were working with different people in the class, this is so everyone can become confident around each other, my group was myself, Nathan and Dominik.  After we was put into our group we had to pick a target audience age and a genre of a film at random out of a cup and come up with an idea for a story line of a film - we picked out a Science-Fiction film for Old Age Pensioners, which we weren't too keen on.

Below is a power point including all the information about our film 'Time Gone By', put together by Nathan, Dominik and myself, which we then went on to present to the rest of our class. 

Time Gone By - Film Pitch

 We analysed everyone's Film Pitches and scored them out of 10 for each section which included:

• Relevant/Intriguing/Catchy Film Title.
• Interesting Characters and Appropriate Cast.
• Enigma Codes.
• Narrative suitable for Target Audience.
• Does the Narrative fit the Genre.
• Originality of the film
• Marketing Ideas

Over all the feedback we received for our film idea was very good. Out of a possible 70, Nathan, Dominik and I scored an average of 50.8 which we were satisfied with.

The majority feedback regarding the Film title was that it was intriguing and made our audience want to find out why we had name the film 'Time Gone By'. Due to the nature of our film being about a Elderly Butler who travels back into his past to try and change events that that have occurred in his life, our audience who we pitched to felt that the title was relevant to the film.

There were mixed opinions about the choosing of the actors for our film. Most of the audience agreed that in fact Robert De Niro was suitable as he is notorious for playing a bitter and miserable character in a few films. Also, as our target audience for our science fiction film is Old Age Pensions, the class felt that the potential audience would be able to relate to an elderly character more so that a youthful character . On the other hand, some of our peers felt as though Robert De Niro was not well known enough to feature in this film if we wanted to attract the target audience as well as some other ages groups.

The featuring story line in our film is a time travelling butler who wants to change past events in his life, our class felt that this was an engaging story line that our potential target audience will be able to relate to as everyone has aspects of regret in their life and trying to change it can cause destruction, and we tried to promote the idea that everything in life happens for a reason. However, some felt that our theme was not that original as other films such as 'About Time'  feature a male that time travels however we reassured them that is was original as our character does not travel back in order to do good for other people he does it for himself. As well as this, our film does not include a happy ending, the character discovers that the events he is changing in this life leads to a permanent adaptation as he does not end up meeting his wife and having his kids and he changed events that lead to meeting his wife.

We received good feedback regarding our marketing plans and the class felt that our choices of advertisements being film posters on buses and at bus stops and also around cafes etc will attract old age pensioners as these are locations in which old age pensioners frequently visit. Also creating a day time television advert using clips from our trailer to promote our film was a good idea, as we acknowledged the fact that elderly people are very unlikely to use social media or view YouTube clips therefore using money out of our budget to crate advertisement in places that our target audience are unlikely to see in very pointless.

Over all 4/5 groups said that they would by the film rights to our Science Fiction Film 'Time Gone By'.