How To Pitch
How to pitch a movie idea, How to pitch a TV show
You can be asked to pitch your project any time, anywhere.
And most writers find that a very scary thought indeed…
If you think that approaching a Person of Influence and Power and selling your project in a few well chosen words is something you could never do, you shouldn’t leave this page until you’ve read right to the bottom…
ScreenwritingGoldmine.com and Script-Consultant.co.uk are very proud to announce our second mighty co-production:
How to Give a Great Pitch!
This brand new one-day workshop is a creative and practical guide to pitching your projects in a way that grabs people’s interest and reels them in, making them sit up and take notice.
If the thought of sitting in front of a group of hostile executives pitching your beloved project makes you sufficiently dizzy that you begin to consider alternative, more soothing career plans, such as bull-fighting, or cave diving, never fear.
This one day course explains written and verbal pitching, and gives you individual attention so you end up with the skills you need to hone and deliver your pitches.
Over the day we give you a chance to create, rehearse and deliver a pitch, all the time giving you feedback and in-depth suggestions on how to maximise the impact and sales potential of your pitches.
What Is The Course All About?
Over the course of a fairly intense, very interactive, highly practical day, we are going to give you:
- Background – What we learned the hard way, from our years of personal experiences of pitching projects – and how you can use that experience to inform your own pitches.
- Ideas Creation – A good idea almost pitches itself. In an interactive workshop session, we demonstrate how to spot the ideas that are going to sell for you.
- Verbal Pitching – What is a verbal pitch? What should a pitch include? How do I get the best out of a pitch? We answer these questions and discuss the psychology and structure of pitching and give you a total approach to pitching you can take away with you and over time make yours.
- Written Pitches – An analysis, using lots of examples, good and bad, of how to write a one page pitch. We give you guidance on essential elements of a successful written pitch.
- Special Guest – Ceri Meyrick, Story Producer on Holby City, discusses what she looks for in a successful pitch. Ceri ran the BBC Writers Academy with John Yorke for five years. She’s also worked on Ballykissangel, Pocoyo, Dirty Tricks, Bertie and Elizabeth, Wales Playhouse and Screen Two. She’s currently about to go into production with a new daytime detective series, Father Brown.
- Elevator Pitching Workshop – Time and help with rehearsing and delivering your own, personal elevator pitch to our guest producer, with feedback on what they thought, and why.
- A Conclusion and Q&A – The basic points of the workshop, summarised and underlined.
When?
Saturday the 30th June, from 10.00am to 5.00pm
Where?
One KX Centre, 120 Cromer Street, London, WC1H 8BS Tel. 020 7520 3070 Here’s a link to a map.
Don’t Miss Out – Book Now!
Once again, we are strictly limiting the places to 20 on each workshop, so don’t miss your chance to nail all those questions and worries you have about the dark side of your chosen profession. Learn how to pitch a movie idea and how to pitch a TV show in a safe, supportive environment!
This great course costs a very affordable £129, but, as always, we are giving an early bird discount if you book for either course up to a week before the event, which brings it down to a FANTASTIC value £97
Click here to reserve your place:
To your writing,
Phil Gladwin
Phil Shelley
P.S. Pitching is the traditional achilles heel for a lot of writers. More and more these days producers don’t have time to read more than a one page pitch, and if they can short circuit that with a quick verbal pitch, even the better. Those writers that can’t deliver like this are lengthening the odds against themselves dramatically. Get ahead of the game…
‘Phil & Phil’s script pitch seminar was simply excellent! Real world professional advice, on how you take an idea and mould it into a punchy, sellable, killer pitch. Valuable insights, great workshops and no nonsense feedback for anyone thinking of pitching a script to anyone. Loved it!” David Early, London
‘The workshop provides invaluable guidance and feedback on taking a script idea from basic outline to an effective and professional pitch.’ Peter Smith, Belgium
‘This is just to say how much, once again, I enjoyed your course.As someone who has finally reached the moment when they feel about as ready as currently possible to send out my first script to production companies and the like, I find your pitching course has really given me the confidence to make this step, both verbally and orally. I particularly appreciated the way the day was structured – beginning with an easy-going creative exercise using a newspaper picture/article to spark off ideas for a script scenario, pitch it verbally and join the tutors and other participants in constructive critical discussions on all the pitches. More formal talk and discussion on how to do written and oral pitches helped feed know how into further pitching practice and group/tutor criticism before we ‘performed’ a formal pitch to the very astute Ceri Meyrick As on your script writing course, I enjoyed the friendly atmosphere and your realisation that participants are important to each other on these occasions – for support, wide ranging critique and potential contacts. In short, I appreciated out-of-class exchanges in both the lunch hour and at the pub at the end of the day.’ Margaret (Folarin)
‘Informative, enlightening, very inspiring, and great fun – what more could you want? I found it well worth the time and money.’ Ayad Andrews, London