Narrowing the Field

We have now narrowed the pitches to two. For our first pitch we have kept the documentary. It would start off with a random person we find on the street. We would get them to begin to tell us their life story. We would start it off with maybe the best story in his life. We would then have video of us finding him and getting to begin talking about his life story. Next we have decided to keep our second pitch, in which we have a man/boy sitting doing some sort of activity. Suddenly, the phone rings and he picks up and it is the army. It turns out he has been drafted to WWIII and he has to break the news to his parents. For a long time he has an inner struggle and is conflicted if he should even say. At the end he is sitting his parents down and begins talking to them. Finally, we have decided to eliminate our third idea to have a hit man mission. We would have a man roll in in a class I car, he would step out and get a grappling hook and rope. The man would throw it to the second story of a parking garage and he would leave it. He then goes and kills his target, put is caught in the action. He spends the time running away from a few agents. He jumps off the parking garage and uses the rope to catch him.
Pitch 1:
Like I said before the first pitch we narrowed down to was the real documentary. We believe that this pitch is outstanding, as it tests what really is going to grab your attention. Most people might do a horror or suspense movie, but we kind of wants to grab the viewer emotionally rather than scraing onto the edge of their seat. We are trying to do this by portray this person as not a random but somebody you can get to know. A lot of documentaries do the same thing at the end. They make you see the world in a different perspective in any way possible. This will be the same concept because it will demonstrate the overly used moral, “ Don’t judge a book by its cover.”
Pitch 2:
As previously stated, the second pitch we are considering is the one about the WWIII call. We feel that this will not be as ‘ out of the box’ as the first but it can still can be used in the same way. This clip will make you relate to him, you see him and pictures of his family. You will see the conflict stirring inside of him as he tries to figure out how to tell his parents.

After a lot of talking we have decided to go with the second pitch. We believe that the first pitch is very good, but what it has in originality it lacks in applicability. In reality we are not a large company that can persuade somebody into opening theirselves up to a few high schoolers. So for that reason we have chosen pitch 2, which still isn’t that bad of a plan B.