Pitch feedback

Pitch feedback

After coming up with our ideas and putting them into a power point we had to present them to others to get feedback on our chosen ideas/genres. I presented my ideas for the slapstick comedy, the horror parody and the buddy cop action comedy. Initially, I was thinking it would be likely that I would make in the buddy-cop action comedy genre, as this is what me and a friend thought would be the most interesting. However, after my partner dropped Media Studies (again), I was left to my own devices, and I started to think that perhaps my other two ideas would be most suitable. However, I still thought that the buddy cop action comedy would be the most likely.
However, after making my pitches and gaining audience feedback, I found that the people watching found the other two ideas to be more interesting and intriguing. For my first pitch (the buddy cop action comedy) the general consensus was that it would be very difficult to make. This is because I would have to be very considerate in my use of props, to make it realistic. For example things such as police cars, police uniforms and weapons such as guns. My teacher informed me that I would also have to pay very close attention to the script to make sure that the genre is clear in the final piece.
For my second pitch, me and my audience agreed that the idea is the most simple of the three and would therefore be the easiest to make. This is because this idea, unlike the other two, is not a sub-genre of comedy and is pure slap-stick comedy in it's conventions. However, my audience and teacher said again that I would need to be careful with writing my script to make sure that it is funny and is successful in the end. Overall however, my audience were a lot more keen on this idea than the first one.
For my third and final pitch, the reactions from the audience and my teacher were the most positive. One audience member said they thought that it would be easier to film in terms of camera shots and angles, as the trailer would be mocking the horror genre and as such would be easier to exploit. Another audience member also said that the idea was funny, and would be good if "it was done in the right way." When asked at the end what idea the audience preferred, they all said the last one, for reasons such as it is the funniest, the most interesting, and the easiest genre to make in. One person said they found it the most interesting because of the juxtaposing of horror and comedy genres.
There was one concern, which is how I would make it clear that the trailer is funny and has comedy aspects to it when it would contain people getting shot in the head and/or running away from a psycho killer. I responded to this by saying I would make it initially clear that it was comedy by having jokes, and making it seem "overly cheesy."
I feel the feedback has been very helpful in my choice process. My final idea at the time of writing is the horror parody. I feel this is partly because of the opinion of others, and partly because of my own change of heart.