Storyboard Tutorials
If you can’t film a pitch tape (trailer, sizzle, mood tape, whatever you want to call it) for some reason – perhaps it’s too expensive because your location is too remote, or you need to build a...
View ArticleGreenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch by Nicola...
There are some simple principles to successfully developing and pitching your ideas, whether you are working for a global 'super-indie' production company, or are a documentary filmmaker pitching a...
View ArticleMaking a Pitch Tape? The Stakes Just Got a Little Higher…
As you set about making yet another pitch tape destined to gather dust on some commissioning editor’s shelf, take a look at the lengths the US networks go to in order to pitch their upcoming shows to...
View ArticleNeed to Make a Pitch Tape on a Shoestring?
Think you need to spend a load of cash making that pitch tape? Think again. This short film was made, edited and scored using an iPhone:
View ArticleFunding 101: Lost and Sound – The Art of Finding the Right Partners
Director/Producer Lindsey Dryden is a documentary filmmaker who has worked on documentaries for broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 4 and Current TV, but when she started making her first feature...
View ArticleTen Tips For a Tasty a Taster Tape
One of the most popular panels at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 was the Taster Tape session run by the BBC Academy. This is probably not surprising given that a few years ago a taster tape was the exception...
View ArticleThe Development Toolkit: Proposal, Trailer, Pitch
The three key elements of your pitch are the paper proposal, the trailer and the verbal pitch. In this panel, which took place at Sheffield Doc/Fest’s DFG Day in 2011 three experts talk about how to...
View ArticlePitching Tips For the Terrified From Danish Producer Sigrid Dyekjær
If you are planning to pitch your documentary to funders you'll no doubt spend much time on displacement activities such as dusting and doing the washing up rather than knuckling down and actually...
View ArticleHow to Pitch and Sizzle
When pitching a TV show or independent documentary it is now almost impossible to get away without having to make a pitch tape of some sort (sometimes several over the course of your production). You...
View ArticleTrailer Tactics From the IDFAcademy
As you often only have approximately seven minutes to pitch (particularly in a formal forum format such as IDFA Forum or at HotDocs in Toronto), you don't have time to talk about all the different...
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