The Pitch

When we pitched our Crime opening idea to our class, it was met with mixed reactions. People said they like the idea of the story and that it had an interesting plot, but was apparantly a rather confusing plot, too. We were in the rather early stages of thinking up our story so we weren't exactly clear as to what the whole story was about. This lead us to simplify the story slightly from a big story with a lot of scenes to a smaller story with fewer scenes. When we first gave our pitch, the name of our film was unknown along with the names of our main characters. Fortunately, just after the pitch, we came up with the title 'Powder' (referring to the substance of some drugs), and the names 'Big Arth' and 'Jimmy', chosen by Luke B and me, respectively. I chose Big Arth due to it's funny sounding nature which would hopefully be percieved by audiences as humourous. Luke B chose Jimmy on the spot due to the fact that we needed a simple name and we all agreed 'Jimmy' was simple yet elegant with his character. The name of the drug dealer who's gone missing, 'Enrique', was also thought up on the spot. However, we didn't discuss the name so we had no choice but to use it. However, it sounds like a fitting sort of name for the appropriate character of our footage so we liked it.
The characters remained unaltered from the pitch to the filming, except for Big Arth's accent, which is something I really wanted to incorparate into my character. It came down to a choice between either putting on an Australian accent, a Welsh accent, an American accent or not accent at all. In the end, I opted for an Australian accent as I couldn't make up my mind in time so just went for the one that came out first.