Unit 21 - Plan and Deliver A Pitch for a Media Product

  LO3 - Be able to pitch ideas on a proposed media product and respond to questions. After viewing my pitch video, I received an email from the client with the following questions: 1. How will other story lines ensure that the target audience continues to watch the soap opera? 2. Only one parental figure is mentioned - what are your plans for other parents or guardians? 3. What about Evermore itself? What does it look like and what are your inspirations? Responding to Feedback from Questions 1. In order to keep the target audience interested within my soap opera and ensure that it is a long running soap I have developed further storylines involving other characters such as Bella and Ellie which follow themes such as mental health and teen pregnancy. This will make sure that the target audience remain interested within the soap opera and do not lose interest after the original planned storyline. By ensuring that the storylines that continue wi...

  LO3 - Be able to pitch ideas on a proposed media product and respond to questions. Link to My Pitch -  https://youtu.be/QUacWeZNnxg

  LO2 - Be able to create a proposal and pitch for an original media product based on a given brief. Potential Client Questions 1. How does this fit within the BBC's values compared to any other channel that shows soaps? 2. How will you create longevity within the soap opera after the murder is over? 3. What are some more details on the secondary storylines? 4. What are some other characters and locations that feature in Evermore? I have modified my script and my pitch in order to focus on these questions that could be asked before I pitch it. Added Pitch Slides Added Script Sections My product fits the product brief as it suits the target audience of ages 15-24 year old by focusing on topics that research shows is more popular within a younger target audience such as cheating, love triangles and murder. This creates my show a hybrid genre of crime and soap operas which will be more successful than a typical soap opera. This will also be suitable for the BBC and will follow their v...

  LO2 - Be able to create a proposal and pitch for an original media product based on a given brief.  Powerpoint for my Script Script for My Pitch   Hello everyone. As a response to the client brief recently put out regarding a new soap opera for the BBC, we would like to propose an idea for a new soap opera called ‘No Body No Crime’.    During the initial idea process we went through blue-sky thinking and more detailed mind maps to discover what ideas would fit the brief the best and how best to develop these. Our original blue-sky thinking developed ideas regarding a school, love triangles and a disappearance. We have furthered this within a mind map to show the starting of character development, the location and the way we have started to combine the soap opera idea into a hybrid genre with crime.   Overall, after this idea consideration the general synopsis of ‘No Body No Crime’ is a British soap opera set in a small English town called ‘Evermore’. It f...

  LO2 - Be able to create a proposal and pitch for an original media product based on a given brief. My Questionnaire I have chosen to research my desired audience of people aged 15-25 through a google form including open and closed questions in order to gain audience feedback about the plan for my soap opera.   My Google Form Target Audience Research I have chosen to research my target audience of age 15-25 year old people via online survey in order to gain lots of quick responses into how to proposed soap opera idea would be taken.  My online survey has targeted my age range accurately and found out that in general my age group does not watch soap operas generally because they feel that they are aimed towards an older audience due to the issues shown within them along with the characters feeling unreliable. This will help me to develop my ideas on my soap opera further as it allows me to make sure my issues and characters represent a younger audience so that they will f...

  LO1 - Be able to generate ideas for an original media product based on a client brief. Soap Opera  - A serial drama characterised by tangled relationships and melodramatic or sentimental situations. It must focus on characters in a specific location, revolve around their relationship and be fairly serious. The Brief You must make a British Soap Opera for the BBC which will be shown 4 nights a week at prime time and aimed at 15-24 year olds. This must fit with the BBC's PBS image and be a 5 minute sample of the soap opera with a cliff hanger and at least 3 characters. Example of Similar Soaps - Research Hollyoaks - C4 Eastenders E20 - BBC Three Waterloo Road - BBC One Neighbours - BBC/C5 Home and Away - ITV/C5 Dawson's Creek - C4/C5 The OC - E4 90210 - C4 Doctors - BBC Similarities Between These - Closely set together - Dramatic story arcs involving drugs, murder, cheating, love - Heavy in dialogue - Recognisable characters and families - Everyone seems to know each other - C...