Narrowing Down Ideas (final Project)

The next step in our final project was to brainstorm and to deduce a pitch that we will use for our actual project itself. It took our group quite a while, an hour to be exact, but in the end, we came to two final decisions: the first decision being a love story about a man who falls in love, but the story is only shot through his feet and in the end it would be revealed that the man was in love with a body pillow. the other pitch being about an uber driver kidnapper who takes a man called Daniel hostage and commits a murder.

The first pitch had many benefits. It would be shot from an interesting angle, witch would be a new journey for our group as we, for our last 2 projects solely used medium shots and long shots. another benefit to this idea was that it only consisted of three actors, the man himself, and the two parents. the main focus of the movie would be the man and him coming to terms with being in love with a body pillow and perhaps his parents help him with the journey. however, the only time you would see the parents would be at the wedding, where the only lines they deliver are, "what are we going to do about this girl of his?". this would be very efficient, as less actors means less time getting a certain scene right and just focusing on the camera angles and props. However, we did not choose this pitch because the ending made it feel too much like a short story and less like a beginning of a movie, which is the whole point of the project.

The second pitch is the one we decided to go with. it will be the beginning of a story about a man named Daniel, who takes an uber ride and the driver takes him hostage. after realizing that his kidnapper may be up to more nefarious actions that just simply kidnapping, he must find out how to save not only himself, but the whole world. there are many benefits to this pitch as well. for one, not like the last pitch, this story remains open ended and very easy to write a whole movie about, and the intro is extremely attention grabbing. even with all of the actors needed, Daniel, Daniels unnamed friend, and uber driver and a murderer, this is much more coherent and direct. in the end, this is the pitch that our group decided to go with. for the multitude of reasons stated beforehand.

in the end, pitch two is the pitch that our group decided to go with for the multitude of reasons stated beforehand it is easier to write for, it ends on a cliffhanger, and it uses lots of mystery elements from classic noir films that hopefully will make the viewer go "Ahh!" or at least end the pitch wanting more. The reason we did not go with the first pitch is that it was not very relatable OR fun to watch, nevertheless being fun to film. our group decided that the extra work would not have the desired effect of shock or awe from the feet filming in the first pitch. for those reasons, the second pitch won the vote that we took.