The Art and Craft of Pitching for Film and Television (FILM 3471 R)
Term: 2018-2019 Academic Year Fall
Description
The first step to getting any project made is having the goods—a screenplay, an original television pilot script, episodes of a digital series, a short film script, a documentary treatment or proposal—and then developing a rock-solid pitch. By asking important questions—What is your story? To what kind of viewer will it appeal? Is it practical? Has it been done before? What makes your project unique? Why am I the right person to tell this story?—this course will introduce students to the fundamentals and practicalities of development and pitching. Through a collaborative workshop process and by using their existing scripts and projects, students will engage in table reads, script analysis, and verbal and written pitch exercises. Students will learn about and create the elements that will make their particular projects and stories resonate and become marketable. Through this process, students will also learn how to develop a project into a pitch package and how to pitch that project and