Pitch

 First Pitch: “A bully finally learns a valuable lesson after picking on anyone he could get his hands on for so long”

Second pitch: “When a millionaire  suddenly loses all of their fortune, they are forced to have to learn the ways of a pauper to survive.”

Third Pitch: “An assassin realizes that killing is no longer their specialty when they  are hired to take the life of a family member.”

My partner Janaiya and I ended up choosing the fist pitch about “the bully who learns his lesson after bullying everyone for a long time.” 

We went with this pitch because it was the closest and most relatable idea to our lives. We wanted to be able to spread some sort of awareness about bullying. I personally notice that a lot of short films have a message or “lesson learned” by the end, so this plot seems to fit into the same category.

The reason the second pitch was overlooked was because it would probably be hard to convey the “rich becomes poor” aspect. The third one also wasn’t chosen for a similar reason. Some questions like “how would we visually show the relationship of the assassin and the sister?” Or, “can we actually put the story together into five minutes?” In the end, the first pitch seemed like the simplest idea to build on.