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Our Pitches - Short film

 It's time to pitch! We have come up with three different ideas for our short film. We've had a lot of ideas, but considering our time constraints, we ended up narrowing it down to these three ideas. These are organized in most to least likely for us to do.

The first one is A person struggling with bills and family loses their life to gambling.

This idea came up while we were taking a break from brainstorming, ironically. We were playing a game of cards, and we recognized how we could use playing cards as a storytelling device. We wanted to include things that we love, which for the three of us is playing cards. Since we also wanted to be in the genre of drama, we thought cards would be a great way to express that. As soon as we thought of it, we started planning and developing ideas, to the point where we had a lot of ideas for the opening sequence.

Next was A man runs from a stranger to find out it's himself.

I was the one who originally came up with this idea! I wanted to have the main conflict being "self-conflict." The idea would be set in a dream world, where the man would have to escape using instructions given to him. However, we couldn't think of a location that would emulate the dreamlike feel we wanted. Because of this, we wanted to adjust the idea as being more realistic looking, with the understanding that it would be set in a dream.

Our final possible pitch was A teenager tries to understand their identity.

We have several ideas and routes we can take with this pitch. Because of that, we wanted to have this as a backup pitch in case our chosen pitch fell through. Although it's vaguer than our other pitches, we're given a lot of freedom in what we choose to do with it, especially since we have a couple of ways we can take it. One idea we had is to make it based on as something more tangible, like an LGBTQ issue. We also have the ability to take it a step further and create an idea of a person with a horrible case of amnesia, in which they forget who they are the important role they play in society. 



See you next time,

Danniella Miller

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