Week 3 and 4 Finding a group and delivering a pitch

Week 3 was the week that I decided on a group for my Documentary production project.

I chose to work with two others, one I had previous experience working on set with and another that a friend of mine had worked with and given good feedback about. We used the session to discuss ideas for our film, I already had the idea of a boxing documentary but was eager to hear what thoughts and suggestions they had on the matter. In the end we decided to run with my idea and produce a documentary on the boxing club.

Week 4 we held two meetings, the first was to decide roles.

When choosing the roles we played to our strengths. Since I was passionate about the project and had a vision in mind I took on the role of director. 

During the second meeting we planned out the pitch we would have to give to the class, I focused on the visual elements I wanted to include and we showed a clip from the movie 'Southpaw' which I had taken inspiration from. We also planned out the types of shot we would include, aiming for a very visually appealing documentary where sit down interviews would be avoided.

During the delivery of the pitch I had originally arranged for a demonstration, the groups were late starting however so we had to discard this idea. Viewing other groups’ pitches was a good way to inspire me with my own project as it allowed me to see what topics and themes interested the rest of the class.