Journal 8: Elevator Pitch Idea

For my elevator pitch, I will attempt to sell my idea for a movie spin-off based from the Netflix Original show 13 Reasons Why. Opposed to the original English series, my movie will be set as an educational documentary with an obvious intent to teach and not make lots of money. In my pitch, I will discuss the reasons I am taking my time to show this movie producer about this particular project. Why its not any other idea. That doing a remake of this show is imperative due to the disgrace of a job they did the first time. I will explain how the scenes depicted in both seasons are not to simply “raise awareness” as they claim. The scene’s that are shown, edited, and beautified romanticize rough subjects that are wildly too graphic for any person, let alone anybody under the age of 18. Most people could go their whole lives without experiencing the horrid and traumatic events that take place in this supposedly “didactic” series, and it almost seams unfair to impose such a burden on virtually anyone with a computer and a Netflix account. In example, one of the scenes that I had the unfortunate experience of unknowingly walking into still affects me to this

day, and that is something I never would have consciously consented to. I know what you may be thinking: that when I say “most” people will be lucky enough to not live through these hardships it implies that their are those less fortunate souls that are burdened with the task of learning to survive with them, and you are exactly right. That is why it is so critically important that we get this right. It is of much more importance to provide an accurate representation for the unaware and a safe place for those all too familiar, than to create a glamorized mass source of income through something like television. Some people reported actually feeling as if they had themselves experienced a traumatic event merely by watching some of the scenes, and I’m sure that anyone who has lived through any sort of event addressed would not wish on anyone to feel the things they felt in direct response to their trauma.

This movie would do the great things 13 Reasons Why claimed to do by not focusing on the money aspect and aesthetic or the “wow” factor that manyTV shows and movies now do. This will not have a purpose to entertain but to enlighten and pose the truths about depression, anxiety, bullying, and sexual assault. The audience will be everyone that has a computer and wants to see the truth. Hopefully I could even focus closely on the poor kids and adults that watched the inhumane Netflix original and highlight the differences to them, and purely show them the right way to talk about this societal issue.