Exhausted but happy
Tuesday
28 March 2006
10:03am
So the Friday pitches started just as our laptop died... Oh - how we laughed. Gareth took the whole thing apart and left it at our feet 'to cool down' whilst we tried to concentrate on the Podstitch pitch.
All too soon we were on - and luckily the laptop had sprung back into life some 10 minutes before. Once our presentation was over we got to relax and enjoy everybody else's presentations. We were both really impressed by the strength of the ideas and the presentations. Although not everything got commissioned, there is loads of potential for those ideas guys!
Jem and JK's feedback was really valuable and we're delighted, if surprised to have won a commission along with Reading Room and ICDC's - Sen Toolkit. Well done guys!
I think we both spent most of the weekend asleep and back to work on Monday was like being jetlagged - we haven't even had a chance to present to the rest of Stardotstar yet....
Overall we loved the event, found the process informative and very well run, the mentors were fabulous (helpful and ruthless in equal measure), and the hothousing of the ideas about the most useful way we've ever developed an area or idea. Pitching pitching pitching was great practise as well as a great development process. We've learnt a lot and looking forward to developing our idea further...
A big thank you to the BBC: Jem, JK, Matt, Anna, Luciana, Mario and the mentors: Frank, Nic, Gill, Matt and Nico. Thanks for making the event an extremely valuable experience and a huge success.
