Week Commencing 26/4/10

26/04/10:-
Day before the pitch; today we have spent the day preparing everything we need for our pitch; handouts, presentation style and our notes. I have updated my research and added a new section listing the resources we will need to produce our documentary. I also created our treatment outlining the different aspects of our production. We re-hearsed our presentation to make sure we knew what we were talking about.

27/04/10:-
Pitch Day; today we went into our pitch fairly confident, we thought we were well prepared and had covered each area of our presentation. We pitched fairly well; however we had a few issues we hadn't taken into account. Because we were pitching in a room which was fairly dull our presentation was unreadable; the black background mixed with small red text made it unusable. However we did have graphs and figures which could still be read. Also due to the fact we had altered our presentation our handouts did not match making them less than professional. We were asked to re-pitch next week with an updated presentation and more focus on our audience and less on marketing. We also had a few issues because we panicked and we mentioned issues that were not relevant to our production.

28/04/10:-
Today I spent the day removing parts of the pitch that were irrelevant. I also noted what was needed to update it to be suitable.

29/04/10:-
Today I spent updating my researching my area of the pitch; I updated the contigency plans and the industry context for our pitch.

30/04/10:-
Today as a group, because of contact issues, we started discussing a real contigency plan that would use all of our research and contacts we had already made but without the people who hadnt got back in touch. We decided as a backup we would look at "video game violence and the effects" we decided we could talk to parents and children who think that video game violence has effects on the consumer.