Today we had our interim pitch before we go away for easter break. The pitch is meant to see what stage we’re up to, and to get an accurate picture of what our magazine could look like, at this half way stage. We wanted to accurately portray the enigmatic theme of our magazine in the pitch. So we decided that we would remain silent through the pitch and let our secretive invitations express our ideas for us before opening up for questions. In the envelopes we gave to the tutors, we included a morse code cheat sheet and black paper with holes in to decipher the hidden information in our letter.
We haven’t actually written the name of our magazine (Black Market) anywhere in anything we have done so far, as we’re hoping to create an identity for ourselves using encryption methods (secret messages, morse code, potentially looking at shorthand codebreaking later on).
The presentation was very well received by the tutors (Liz and Jon), and both were able to understand our concept purely from the invitation letter. This shows that our project has come leaps and bounds since our initial pitch with Sue and Dan. The tutors also seemed impressed by our presentation style for this pitch.
The feedback we received was that we should keep going with the formal and official look, and plan our workshop soon.
Jack McCabe 