The Pitch

We decided that out of all of our ideas that we would go with the Vultures because we have already got permission to film from the people and we also thought that filming vultures is something very different to what we have done before and will make it much more interesting to watch. With that in mind, we came up with a pitch to present to Helen and Simon. 

 The feedback we got was that we had lots of good general ideas about what we want however we have no true storyline that will create a narrative for the audience to follow. We discussed ideas about the vultures being held in captivity at Doddington and whether people are happy about this and if it is something that they are against. We also discussed reasons for further research such as how did the vultures get to Doddington and is Doddington the only bespoke place in the country to hold African Vultures. We were given the advice to follow Julie's story as she goes to Africa and to find out more information as to what she will be doing there and how she plans to protect the vultures. The final thing we discussed was why people are actually dedicating their lives to protecting vultures as opposed to something that looks much more "cute" and "cuddly". With representations such as Disney's view of vultures in The Jungle Book, it's surprising that people are putting their entire careers into protecting and caring for them. This is something I have emailed Jo back with to find out her opinion as to why they are passionate about them. 

 We were also given feedback that we need to work on our pitching skills as we found it very difficult to communicate our ideas across successfully and drive the story we want to tell forwards and make the people we pitch to just as excited about the idea as we are as creators. This is something we can work on throughout the course of this unit. 
Here are the slides to the presentation:

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