RC - Pitch evaluation

...developing from the post: 'Group - Pitch evaluation'

We pitched our concept to our teacher on Thursday in order to gain the 'green light' and after doing so I feel that we did succeed in pitching a concept that showed evidence of detailed research and cohesive development work that showed a clear, thorough build up of all of our thoughts and ideas.

Presenting our pitch allowed us to recognise the problems that we still faced with our concept so that we could address them in order to diminish the 'vague' areas.

Problems with our pitch:

Our teacher felt that when pitching we all seemed to be under a lot stress and therefore interjected each other when talking. This is a view that I share because I do feel that we were all under strain because in the build up to our pitch all three of us had had absences, which obviously had an impact on the development of our pitch. I do not feel that these absences caused any of us to do less work, as I do feel that we did plenty enough to create a detailed pitch, however, it was the fact that we were not together for the most past of the production of our pitch and were therefore working individually, which meant that when it came to the presentation we were all a bit disorganised; ending up with two separate presentations. This was not at all beneficial to any of us as it meant that our pitch did not run as smoothly as it could have done, but it also made it harder to engage our teacher who had to interject on a few occasions; making our presentation very disjointed.

Areas that need to be addressed:

From our teacher's feedback it is clear that out of class communication is one particular area that needs be addressed, as working cohesively as a group is the best way to produce a music video which is successful. It is clear that we all want to do well with our music video but maybe this could be seen as a disadvantage as our drive to succeed may force the group to divide.

One other problem area that we need to devote our efforts to is our choice of location for the car sequence and although we went on a number of reccies to help solve this problem our car sequence location is still unknown. We came to the conclusion that Hastings and Tonbridge may not be the best suited locations for our video if we are hoping to achieve a professional look.

How we are going to address these areas:

In terms of communication it is evident that we need to spend more time together outside of the classroom in order to make sure we are constantly working together in the development of our music video. We have only ever been on one of the reccies altogether, out of the four we have been on, already this suggests where our problems underlie. In order to make sure this does not happen again we all need to be prepared for giving up some of our own time so that we can all work together because I feel that this is the best way to improve communication. Delegation is also key in bettering our group, as our competitiveness as individuals makes it seem easier for us to just work independently to get the work done but this is not the case. Instead of us all doing a lot of work so to ensure all areas are covered just in case one person does not complete one particular area, we need to communicate so that we clearly know who is doing what and to ensure that no section is repeated. This means that we should all be prepared to delegate because when you are in a group you can not always have control all of the time.

When it comes to choosing a location for our car sequence it is evident that we need to go on another reccie, we have concluded that Brighton may be a possibility because we have already visited this location earlier on but this time round we would have our concept in mind.