60 Second Pitch

Our group was required to create a 60 second pitch. This is part of pre-production where within the 60 seconds, an idea for a film is summarised clearly. It is often used when convincing production companies to fund the film. At this stage, the decision is made whether the filming can begin or come to an end.

We were to come up with a storyline for a horror film targeted at teenagers. The film is to be age restricted where 15 year olds and above can view the movie. At the beginning of our planning, we were convinced to go with the idea of cannibalism, but this has a high age expectancy, too high for our target audience, so we had to tone down that idea. In the end, we managed to generate many ideas and come to our final one who we all fully agreed on.

Luckily, we have an expert on exorcism and similar things, so we thought with the knowledge we have we could use this as an advantage for the movie. We decided to come up with a title 'Chriso' for our film because it defines 'christ' in Latin, and it links relatively well with our storyline.

I believe what didn't work out at the beginning was thinking of a production name. We generated numerous ideas but needed extended time until we came to a decision of naming ourselves as Clear Cut Films.