'The Pitch' is the essential guide to pitching stories in the film and TV industry.
'The Pitch' is an entertaining guide to pitching stories within the film and TV industry in Britain and beyond. A lively, confidence-inspiring and demystifying canter through the pitch process, this unique book is aimed at every aspiring and practising storyteller/film-maker setting out to turn their Big Idea into a reality.
Based on a series of how-to lectures developed by the authors over the last decade and interwoven with interviews with many well-known film-makers, the book's approach is two-fold. Firstly it looks at the requirements and psychology of buyers, and how successful sales techniques can be adapted to the film industry, providing a detailed analysis of the actual Pitch Process from preparation to delivery. Secondly, it incorporates the experience of big name industry practitioners who relate their 'best and worst' pitch stories and advice, punctuated by a series of entertaining illustrations from the Guardian cartoonists and animators Berger and Wyse.
Film students, artists, distributors, script executives and producers will find the insights of 'The Pitch' utterly invaluable and refer to it again and again each time they go out to market their Big Ideas.
