I've pitched my film to a focus group today. I don't know if I pitched it as well as I could've, but regardless of that, here's the information I've shown them...
Much of the critique included how the ideas are very 'up in the air' but the actual structure needs a lot of work. And I have loads of really good ideas but I need to stabilize and reduce them down somehow, especially if I want to make it into a teaser trailer.
Another point was that if it's a 15 age rating (which is what I want it to be) then I should include some 15 rating aspects into it (the sexually suggestive content could be included as 15 though... But I'm unsure with what other kind of 15 content I could get away with showing... I do have some fake blood though!)
I'm rather worried about the fate of this idea, to be honest. I feel, in my head, that it's going very flat and boring now and the once 'fresh' and 'exciting' idea I used to have is now dull and unusable.
A piece of critique that especially spoke to me was of making it more of a 'quirky, indie' film rather than a 'fantasy' film, and to make the female protagonist more of an 'outcast' of society rather than a mythical being (or at least, to not have it in the 'fantasy' context as I did originally plan). I very much agree with that. But I'm just wondering whether to abandon the idea completely or to keep going with it.
I was planning on doing some more filming next week... But I think I'll postpone the filming for now until I've got my ideas and enthusiasm back on track.
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