Pitching the Pitches and Rolling with the Roles
Today was finally the day to pitch my idea. I prepared so much the past few days to learn my pitch by heart so that I could deliver it gracefully, with confidence and energy. I went to bed early to get enough sleep and drank lots of water to be concentrated and prepared. And what happened?
I woke up with the worst cold ever. I felt odd the entire day, was highly unconcentrated and felt just completely out of order. So when the client came in and it was time to pitch, I started off as the first one to salvage as much concentration and energy as I could for the pitch... and forgot half of what I wanted to say, lost my timing, you get the gist: It was, to my mind, an uninspiring and incoherent pitch. But what was the outcome?
My idea was taken!
Okay, it was by far not the only one taken, but I was very happy to hear the client say that she loved my idea. While she started off not liking my idea first, she increasingly liked it once my pitch came to its conclusion (and thus resolution). This was a small revelation to me, since I thought I had prepared my pitch in a way that would get the plot twist across quite clearly at the beginning. I was surprised to realise that it took way longer to get the message out than I initially intended (which might be due to my cold and my somewhat botched delivery), but I was happy to experience how powerful a revelation can be once the 'penny dropped'.
In the end, we ended up with six different pitches out of which she took four to combine into two projects. My idea, as I presented in the PP a couple of blog entries ago, was paired up with Lynley's idea of showing one character within a church, being obviously a religious person that struggles with their gender identity. Our client felt that both our ideas would go together well and while we did not see the connection yet that would make for a great story, we were determined to get it created.
So after the client left, we went and assigned roles for all the projects. I opted for being the cinematographer of this project while Lynley opted to be the scriptwriter and director. Craig took the role as producer, Katie as editor and Nathan as sound op.
We held our very first and short production meeting, before I went home to get some rest and celebrate my idea being taken with a cup of chamomile tea.