Tips for pitching to a producer: a short thread #film #tv #producing #pitching #writers #directors
1. Don’t send us your life story, just a short sentence or two about your experience
2. Send a short synopsis of your project that gives us a clear idea of the concept
3. Keep it concise, don’t give us long treatments or scripts to read unless we ask for it
4. If you’re a director, include your showreel. If you don’t have enough material to make a showreel you probably need to make more
5. Make sure there are dialogue scenes in your showreel, a 2 min montage of pretty shots set to music doesn’t tell us if you can direct actors
6. Tell us what you actually need us for: a full producer, an exec, to help find finance, to develop etc.
7. Be realistic about what you want to achieve and what the producer can actually bring to it
8. Rejection isn’t always about you or the quality of your project. Often we just don’t have room on our slates
9. Only pitch us one project at a time, it’s not a lucky dip scenario
10. Don’t take rejection personally
Other producers, feel free to add to this list!
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