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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…
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)
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
“The Ultimate Sales Letter” – Dan S. Kennedy
Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode.
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Nick – @_njwatson
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