Pitch Meeting and Thoughts

Today we presented our idea pitch. unfortunately I feel that it didn't go as well as we had hoped due to a lack of confidence.

Firstly there were some technical problems involving the file which contained our presentation which wasn't't showing up due to issues with the formatting of hard-drives. This was probably instrumental in lowering our confidence as this had already wasted the time of those we were pitching to.

Our overall delivery wasn't particularly confident either, with myself constantly stuttering whenever I wasn't relying on the script and we were often not to clear and tended to mumble throughout our presentation. 

However, we did get our points across and gave a clear idea of what we were proposing. We showed that we had thought about aspects such as possible casting, staging and lighting as well as already getting contacts that could feature in the show. Meaning, although our delivery wasn't particularly confident, our idea would have seemed otherwise.

The overall feedback to the pitch was that it felt more like it should be a documentary rather than a live show. I was inclined to agree as the idea of featuring how extraordinary people can overcome their disabilities does seem like a more serious subject which has more of a documentary feel about it and would not necessarily fit the more up-beat feel of a live show.

Another criticism was that the type of show we proposed, likening it to chat shows such as Graham Norton, did not properly suit the subject matter. Doing the presentation I briefly referenced Piers Morgan's Life Stories while explaining the moodier lighting that we had in mind for our show and it was felt that we should have built the show more in that style toggle it a more serious tone.

More development was also needed as well such as getting more contacts rather than just relying and hoping that the one we had acquired would definitely be able to do the show. There also needed to be more of physical representation of the show's structure which we had discussed during our development of our idea but failed to mention it properly during the presentation.

Overall, I feel that we did a good enough job with our development and we were able to competently produce and perform our pitch. However, I do doubt that our idea will be chosen due to a lack of development.