The Pitch

     Our first pitch is “Finding my biological parents is harder than I thought.”  We chose this idea because it would supply our video with an element of suspense. It will leave the viewer wondering if the main character ever finds his parents and if he does what kinda of people they are. We had the idea of showing the parents and their decision to give up their kid. Then it would go forward in time to show the now grown up child and the challenges they went through to find their parents. The difficulty of choosing this as our final idea is making it clear to the audience the relationship that the characters have. We would need to find actors that would be able to portray this effectively. We lightly discussed using one of our parents but we haven’t planned any further. The positive effect of using our parents is we would not have to search for adults that resemble the actor we chose as the adopted child. However, if we were to use our parents there is the risk of them not taking in the character.
       The second pitch we considered was “I faked my death and I’m ready for revenge”. We decided not to film this pitch for multiple reasons. One of them being that it would be very difficult. The pitch statement, while suspenseful does leave a lot of room for explanation. In order to make a good movie we would need more than a 2 minute opening scene. The storyline would be too full. We would need to explain why they faked their death, why they want revenge, and who they want revenge on. Although this pitch would be a better thriller than the one we chose. While the other one is just part of the mystery genre. This pitch would be thriller/horror/mystery and the audience would enjoy it. But our two minute time limit wouldn’t do the movie justice.
      So, after debate we narrowed it down to the pitch that we wanted to do. We decided on filming about the child looking for their parents. My group and I chose that pitch because it is unique. We speculate that a lot of people will try doing horror. And my group and I want to add a unique aspect to our film. On top of that, we feel that a mystery theme will add suspense. And we feel that it will be easier to grasp the audience because it is an easy concept to get. With horror we feel that it wouldn’t be that realistic because of the limited resources that we have. We also feel most comfortable acting with a mysterious theme. Another reason we chose this pitch it that we think we will have the most fun doing this type of theme. So, for those reasons we chose that pitch.