Pitching to the Production Team

Between initially coming up with our witch idea and pitching to the Production Team (Matt and Luke) we were advised by our teacher, Katie, to tweak our concept slightly so that it focused on the hunters and not the hunted; this way it would make the opening sequence far more of a thriller than a horror. Consequently, we altered the idea slightly so that it was now the hunters setting up to catch the witch: We would see them building the pyre, sharpening spears, loading quivers with arrows, and then the sequence would end upon them setting out into the forest for the witch.

We pitched such an idea to Matt and Luke, and they told us that medieval costumes would simply be too complicated to arrange and that we were going to give ourselves too much stress and work. Consequently, they told us to re-do the idea but in a modern setting, changing the witch-hunt to a ‘monster-hunt’, or, perhaps more in line with current affairs, a ‘terrorist-hunt’. Regardless, they told us that the idea for the preparation of a hunt (using make-shift weapons, i.e: a dagger taped to the end of a stick) was a good idea for a thriller opening sequence, although we’d need to make sure of: Who were hunting, why they were hunting, and what they were hunting.