Creating a Pitch Document

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Learn to develop a pitch document, which serves as your roadmap for your pilot and series once it is sold.

What you can learn.

Use your current pilot script or idea to create a professional pitch document
Get tips on introducing yourself, your show's premise and show world, and main characters
Get insight into the requirements of studios, networks, and streamers as well as WGA rules
Get feedback from your instructor and classmates on how to make your pitch land successfully

About this course:

The most important step in selling an idea or script is creating the perfect pitch document. This document can serve as a guide for yourself during your verbal pitch, but it can also be a roadmap for your pilot and series once it is sold. In this workshop, you take your television show idea or pilot script as a foundation to create a professional pitch document. You learn the perfect way to introduce yourself and your idea, elaborate on your show’s premise, describe the world of show, create detailed character descriptions, expound on episode ideas and finally demonstrate your show’s tone by comparing it to other shows. We also discuss how to use your pitch document and the requirements of studios, networks and streamers and the WGA “no free work” rule. By the end of the course, you have a completed pitch document. Students must have either an idea for a TV series or a completed TV pilot at the start of the course.