Group Project - The Pitch

Now it was time to execute the pitch, gathering all our research and ideas, and churning out a good presentation containing all the right facts and figures. So what would we need for the pitch? Well in the previous term, where we did a pitch for our radio programme, we acquired vital knowledge of what makes a good pitch, and what makes a bad one. So hopefully we can put the knowledge to use in this next pitch.



For the pitch we made all necessary information available to our “Acting panel” who would allow us to make our documentary if we display a good pitch. So what things did we tell them? Obviously we made clear the project was a documentary; based on the memories of World War II, from civilians and those in the services. We pitched them the approximate budget cost of the project, what roles each of us had during the project e.g. I was producer, researcher and editor. Most roles within the group were shared roles, specifically the research and editing.



Other things we explained was who the contributors were for our project, ensuring we gave them a sheet of contacts, and details on the phone calls and visits to both Flowerdown house and the Somerset legion house. We also explained why these locations were suitable for our project.



We also put forward ideas of the structure and things that we will include within the documentary:
• The main theme of the documentary
• An opening montage that will display the title of the program and will develop the mood of the film towards our audience.
• The film will have a narrator that will introduce the film, the interviewees, and conclude end the film.
• We are planning to gather many interviews and choose the best 3-5 interviews in the final edit.
• In between interviews we will include montage (cut away) images . These images will also be useful as an overlay during the long interviews.
• A possible ending to the documentary will involve cut away shots of the war memorials in Grove Park, in W-S-M. Over the top of this sequence we may include the song "We'll meet again" (sung by Vera Lynn) to make it very sentimental.



We accompanied the Pitch with handouts including all the necessary details in brief, to read, and use for reflection after the pitch has ended. Initially we planned to use a PowerPoint presentation, but due to technical problems this was not possible, but we finished the pitch and got the “go ahead” we needed to start making our documentary.