S'up, folks.
At uni, we are pitching to direct or produce one of the five films that being made this year. I pitched to direct on Tuesday, and my good friend Nicola pitched to produce with me.
The results of the pitching session went up on the noticeboard yesterday, and apparently none of the directing/producing pitches for that project were "satisfactory." Of course, they've given no indication of what they were after either before or after the pitch, so we had to guess.
I've spoken to other peeps who got the directing gigs on other projects, and came to the conclusion that I might've spent too much time on the technical style I hoped to achieve, instead of the focusing on the characters and the story.
So, in my second pitch next tuesday (with higher stakes this time, since everyone who failed to get their project will probably now go for this), I'll be heading into more character-based territory. Anyone got any further tips for me?
Also, just how do you pitch to be a producer? We assumed that it would be showing organisational skills and plans on how to achieve the full potential of the script, but apparently, that wasn't the case.
I await your wisdom.