Our Pitch

 The upcoming media project requires our group to produce a 2 minute introduction to a movie that we are creating. Our group all agreed to use the same continuous theme of suspense and thriller into the movie introduction. The movie genre thriller can be characterized as holding suspense, anxiety, or excitement. It draws the audience in by leaving them on the edge of their seat throughout the entire film. We began by thinking of similar movies in the thriller, suspense genre that we all enjoyed. We decided to focus on creating a plot with the thriller genre as it seemed like it would be fun and interesting yet challenge our skills as film producers. For example, one of the members were inspired by the show Defending Jacob. We wanted our movie to contain elements of child murder. We began to explore various plots and detailed stories that we could incorporate as our main focus and problem. The first concept we explored was that of a child murderer. However, there was some disagreement between the groups, so we expanded on the idea. The idea grew into the concept of a series of kidnappings. One of our group members suggested the idea of a mother using her child to lure kids into her home and kidnap them. The group agreed upon liking this idea and we chose it as our first pitch. We continued to brainstorm within the thriller genre, and found another idea that was more on the mystery side. As we continued to brainstorm more ideas for our thriller film, we came up with a murderer solving mystery. This idea consisted of a child's father getting lost. The father then leaves clues for his daughter and the daughter begins to unravel the mystery. The child starts to see the clues her father left her and starts to piece them together. We wanted to do a film that would keep the audience intrigued the most, throughout the entire film. We ended up choosing the kidnapping pitch as this idea would promote curiosity and tension within the audience as to wanting to know what is going to happen next. 











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