Choosing a pitch

We started our final task last class. This time we are making the beginning of a movie. It must be at the most 2 minutes. It has to be fictional as well, so no documentaries or anything non fiction. I am working with two of the group members that I previously worked with for the commercial that we filmed. We are not working with the third group member because he has a tight schedule so he will be working by himself for this project. We all feel comfortable working together because we worked well when we made the commercial. We had a problem figuring out which pitch to use so we threw out a couple of ideas.

Pitch 1: for the genre of the first pitch it is comedy. How we plan to start it is by opening with a fade in. We will first have one person from a mid shot waking up out of bed. They will get out of bed and start their morning routine. So we would just capture all three of our morning routines but in a funny way. After we are all ready for school we will call each other or start a three-way call. From this point on there will be three screens or the screen will be split into three. We will all be talking on the phone but you could still see all of us at once.

Pitch 2: for the second genre we decided to pick thriller. For this pitch we planned to have someone running as fast as they could to their car. The person would look distressed and scared. As soon as they got in their car they would lock it and look around and then quickly start the car. The next scene you would see someone chasing her or looking behind an object at the person. As they are driving the audience would see a second car behind them. The person would land at a house and go inside and lock all the doors and grab a knife and get to a secure spot. Then there would be some kind of major twist towards the end of the two minutes.

Out of all the pictures that we proposed, we narrowed it down to two. It was either the thriller genre or the comedy genre. We Looked at factors of both and the effort that we would need to put into both of them. We also need to make sure that we had the right amount of resources in order to project the film properly. We decided to pick the comedy pitch. We chose this one because it would be easier then the thriller pitch but it would also relate closely to our every day lives. It would also be more of something that the audience can relate to as opposed to the thriller pitch.