Film pitch feedback

Hi guys,
I have just checked the number of views is 116! Thank you so much for reading my posts. It really a lot to me, even though I'm one of millions of voices.

Anyway, Clare I had to do a pitch for our film for our media class and afterwards we had to put up what feedback we got from our classmates so I'm going to answer those questions now.

Ok, here we go:
Question 1: Because your film is in so much detail and it's of something so extreme, aren't you considered it is going to have a really high budget?

Well, we are only planning to do like the first 2 minutes of the opening and the location we are planning to use is a field with additional news headlines. So no, we are not worried about this film having a high budget as it probably won't have one.

Question 2: Where are you going to film all of this?

Again, mainly in a field and we won't film the whole two hours (come on, that would take like a year!) In additional, we will probably have to film it early in the day because the idea is that no one else is around except from the characters, which is about 15 of them.

Question 3: Aren't you worried of what Derren Brown has done and what is already out there?

Firstly, I haven't even seen Derren Brown's version of an apocalypse and secondly yes, there are a lot of films out there that are like this.
However, like Clare said at the time, we want to expose raw emotions to the audience, especially with the use of handheld and Steadicam work (we got a lot of inspiration from Cloverfield) and also for the
audience to sympathise with Joseph, who suffers from manic depression. O course we are also planning to use mockumentary features which hardly any films from this genre have used, like ever.

Question 4: How would you make the film fit into its genre well?

Well, mise en scene will definitely help with that e.g. torn clothes maybe burned a little and the newsflashes about global warming and the whole thing about work and life zones (which is quite like Mockingjay) and also the government testing nuclear on humans seem to cover that. In a way it is very political.

Question 5: What age rating would you give it?

A 15 because it won't be too gruesome but there might be swear words (come on, we are teenagers full of angst) and a few shots of blood, especially when Nathan gets shot.

Question 6: How long is it?

About 2 hours, a lot happens so we would really need that amount of time.

Here is the pod cast of it:
http://pixiem95.podomatic.com/entry/2013-05-07T11_37_01-07_00

Alright peeps, see you soon!

Emily x