Practice pitch
Feedback
1. Genre - good to make clear at top - well done.
2. How is it different from the TV drama Killing Eve, where detective and criminal have romance?
3. Period drama is quite expensive (costumes, locations etc) - how will you keep the cost down? - limited locations?
4. Are both Detectives a direct intertextual link to Sherlock Holmes?
5. Will audience know more than characters? Will protagonist know he has fallen for master criminal?
6. Why appropriate for BBC3? Rather than BBC One and a mainstream wide age group.
7. Define criminal activity - serial killing, fraud, theft, drugs, violence?
8. Your PowerPoint looks too clean and corporate, it doesn't reflect your show or it's look/genre.
Additional potential questions:
What is the shows episode-by-episode progression?
How will you make sure all of the characters can be empathised with?
What actors are you looking for?
When exactly is the show set?
How does the show wrap up?
Evaluation:
When looking back on this pitch, I believe that it does its job of explaining the show and its ideas quite well, although there are some distinct areas where I will try to improve before my final pitch. First of all, I will try to style the PowerPoint more around my ideas, visually showing off my key concepts and the world that I will try to create. I will also try to have a firmer grasp on the entire story and narrative, so I can discuss how everything in the show interlinks. Finally I will do some more research on similar products, so that I can more clearly understand what differentiates my show and makes it distinct. All in all however, I believe that this pitch shows my thoughts and ideas quite well, and only needs a few extra tweaks in order to be perfect.
