Title: The Elevator Pitch
Genre: Comedy
Logline: Two aspiring inventors get trapped in an elevator together on their way to a pitch meeting with a potential investor where they fight for a million dollars.
Cast Breakdown:
Adrian
Adrian is a 23-year-old MIT graduate with a passion for inventing and engineering since he was 3. He started with Legos and has made hundreds of original creations since then. Adrian comes from a long line of successful engineers and hopes to be the richest of them all. He moved to Silicon Valley after he graduated in hopes of selling his next masterful creation to a giant business shark.
Stewart
Stewart is a 22-year-old Stanford graduate who’s looking to sell his next greatest invention. He used to get bullied in school for being a “mathlete” and captain of the school’s robotics team but got revenge on students by creating elaborate creations to get back at them such as the “Apple Cannon” and the “Self-Destructing Textbook”. He has been living in Silicon Valley since graduation and is on the search for people willing to buy his best creation yet.
Location Breakdown: The story setting is a skyscraper building in Palo Alto, CA. They’re hosting a “Shark Tank” type competition for up-and-coming Silicon Valley inventors. For the purpose of shooting, the whole film takes place in an elevator, any elevator big enough to fit two actors and a camera will work.
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