'AS LIVE' PRODUCTION: Pitching Day

Today was pitching day! Katie and myself had our powerpoint, set and paddle ready to show the panel. This included Helen, Jo, Del, Josh and Simon. 

Our pitch:

After we had pitched, we had feedback from each of them. Jo said she loves the idea as she loves fashion, and she would be really interested in making and watching this programme. 

Del said he was the opposite to Jo - he didn't like fashion but he loves the idea of the programme, he also does a lot of fashion / catwalk work also so he has his own view towards this sort of show. He also knows a lot of people in the fashion business which could be good people to get in contact with for potential hosts / guests. This would be interesting to get a man's ideas for the fashion programme. Del was not keen on the HOT or NOT board and paddle, he said it all looked really grown up and professional until the paddle came out. We were happy to listen to his feedback and get rid of the paddle. He also said would it really need to be in a studio, we said it would be a good location to get the audience involved with the show. We all went onto agreeing that we could do a Top Gear style, with the audience standing around the set. The audience could also get up onto the set at the end of the programme and feel / try on the clothes on the rail from the 'trends of the week' maybe?


Josh said it might be more suited for E4 than a main channel, which we agreed with because we had a list of channels and E4 was on it. 

Simon also said they really liked the idea and that it was different which was good. They all loved the set as it gave them a real version of what we want to make life-size if our pitch was picked. Simon also said he knew an independent shop owner we could get in touch with, who may be interested in being on the show. We were very happy with this as it will make the casting just that bit easier if we have somewhere to start. 

Overall, our pitch went really well and they all said we presented it well too. This all paid off because Katie and myself went on to get the winning pitch! It is a weird and surreal experience to know that our idea and mini set will be made into a real programme and that they saw potential in our idea. It will be a new experience for all of us as we have never done anything like this before. I am looking forward to working with the whole year group to create Steal the Style. 

Winning pitch - Steal the Style