Planning the 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 ho takes a man called Daniel hostage and commits a murder.

The first pitch had many benefits. It would be shot from an interesting angle, which would be a new journey for our group as we, for our last two projects foley 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 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 kidnaper may be up to more nefarious actions than just simply kidnapping, he must find out how to save not only himself, but the whole neighborhood. 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 before. It is easy to write, it ends with a cliffhanger, and it uses lots of mystery elements from classic noir films that hopefully will make the viewers scared and surprised. The reason that we did not go with the other pitch is that it seems like it would be more of a short story rather than a beginning to a longer film. It also may lead the audience to confusion.