COMMISSIONS UNIT: (Pre Production) Pitching Our Idea

After our ideas support meetings with Zoe, we had to come up with the pitch for our documentary.

This involved:
- showing locations
- showing characters and character profiles
- coming up with the style / narrative structure

We came up with a presentation for this:

We all split up the work for the pitch. We individually wrote the character profiles. I wrote the character profile for the insurance broker:

Alex wrote the character profile for himself and his dad, Sonia wrote the character profile for her driving instructor and Jason wrote the character profile for his driving instructor.

The pitch was quite well received. Zoe and Helen warned us that we shouldn't focus on the financial side of things too much unless it affects us in an extremely major way - otherwise the audience will not sympathise with the subject at all. This means that we may need to adjust the tone slightly. We may also need to get rid of the idea of Alex doing a challenge as the audience will not be sympathetic enough to him - he can still travel without a car.