Pitch time

After last class my group and I were left with three pitches and we now have to decide on one. My group mates and I first narrowed down our three pitches to just two. The two we chose were:

After the mysterious murders of citizens throughout a small town a detective seeks to find the man who did it before he kills again

A transaction of money and envelope, dad leaves his kid home, forgets to lock the door, kid is taken, police question and try to solve

Starting with pitch one, this was one of the first pitch ideas my group an I came up with when assigned the task. There are a few pro's of this pitch. First, is that it gets right to the central idea of what the movie will be about. This is especially important when you can only use one 25 word sentence. This pitch also creates some suspense as it identifies that the main character has some sort of timeframe to solve the mystery. This effect is created by explaining that the detective must find the culprit of a series of murders before he acts again. On the other hand, my group and I found this to be a very generic idea as we heard many other groups in the class talking about doing their final task on a murder mystery as well. 

The second pitch is about the kidnapping of a child and the investigation which follows. My group and I really liked this idea when we came up with it in class and we all are leaning towards it being our choice for the final task. This is primarily because we believe that this would not only be an interesting film but also because it is a realistic option for our final task. The only negative that we see with this pitch is the clarity of it as it may be difficult to depict what our movie would be about based solely on the pitch. However, we believe that it does not give too much away about the motives of the kidnapping while also explaining that somebody paid to have the child taken.

We decided to go with the second pitch as opposed to the first one. This was because we found that the second pitch was a more original idea than the murder mystery as we believed the murder mystery idea to be generic. This was because we heard many other groups share a similar idea to ur first pitch. Additionally, we believed that the second pitch would be more realistic for us to film as we do not have to show somebody getting killed. Although the first pitch is written better we preferred the idea of the second pitch. Overall we determined that our second pitch would give us the best chance to make our final task as good as possible ultimately leading us to this decision.