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TV Pitch Documents (PT82)
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Mar 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Alex and Nick discuss the content and formats of successful TV pitch documents, from one-pagers to pitch bibles.
How do you effectively communicate the vision of a TV show? What are the different formats of TV pitch documents? What should you include in your pitch? How do you structure a pitch document? What are the burning questions you need to answer? How do you write your pitch in a compelling and unique way?
Plus, we talk dramedy script categories.
The Paper Team gives their sales pitch...
SHOWNOTES
Content
Paper Scraps: Spec Lists and Script Categories (00:31)
1 - Formats of TV pitch documents (03:41)
2 - Content of a TV pitch document (06:35)
3 - How to best express your pitch: format, structure, and prose (19:40)
Takeaways and Resources (33:19)
Links
Leave a voicemail for Paper Team & TV Calling
Sundance Episodic Program
"Pitch Doc One" - TV Calling
"Meetings 101: Generals and TV Staffing" (PT62)
Terra Nova
Resources
"The Ultimate Sales Letter" - Dan S. Kennedy
Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode.
If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :)
You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex - @TVCalling
Nick - @_njwatson
If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co
How do you effectively communicate the vision of a TV show? What are the different formats of TV pitch documents? What should you include in your pitch? How do you structure a pitch document? What are the burning questions you need to answer? How do you write your pitch in a compelling and unique way?
Plus, we talk dramedy script categories.
The Paper Team gives their sales pitch...
SHOWNOTES
Content
Paper Scraps: Spec Lists and Script Categories (00:31)
1 - Formats of TV pitch documents (03:41)
2 - Content of a TV pitch document (06:35)
3 - How to best express your pitch: format, structure, and prose (19:40)
Takeaways and Resources (33:19)
Links
Leave a voicemail for Paper Team & TV Calling
Sundance Episodic Program
"Pitch Doc One" - TV Calling
"Meetings 101: Generals and TV Staffing" (PT62)
Terra Nova
Resources
"The Ultimate Sales Letter" - Dan S. Kennedy
Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode.
If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :)
You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex - @TVCalling
Nick - @_njwatson
If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co
Released:
Mar 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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