Today we had our second tuesday session at the watershed, and it presented a good chance to see a little deeper into the interests and ideas that the other future producers have. We spent the whole session taking turns to pitch our own ideas for the projects to which we would like to be attached, and to explain a little about why we would be the right people to work within each of the briefs. Needless to say it was a long but insightful session.

It struck me how popular the Gothic Season was with everyone. Almost half of the group must have pitched towards that one strand, each person bringing their own unique ideas, and each idea having its own merits and pitfalls. It will be interesting to see how that group is narrowed down a little, and how the different sets of ideas form together into something a bit more cohesive and together.

I personally pitched towards the Fresh Flix strand, maintaining my belief that this is the area in which I could offer the most, not least because I would have been part of its target audience only two years ago. I felt the pitch itself went fairly well, I managed to draw confidence from our recent workshop, and think that I managed to come across reasonably convincingly. I usually consider going first to be a bad thing, but this time I think that it may have actually been a bit of a blessing in disguise, getting mine done while the audience was still fresh, and I still had the energy to deliver with some enthusiasm.

It’s a shame that living so far away means that I’m unable to stick around longer, it felt like an interesting set of discussions where just beginning to brew as I had to leave, but I’m looking forwards to getting stuck into the projects, and seeing just how far we can take them.