What is a Pitch - Lesson

Definition - A pitch is a concise verbal (sometimes visual presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screen writer or director to a producer or shadow executive in the hope of attracting development finance to pay for the production.

How to engage when presenting a pitch

Reference something that people know so they can refer you presentation to what they already know

Begin with a short sentence summing up what you are presenting in a nutshell, essential for your audience to understand what you are talking about

Audience should understand the building blocks of the pitch, they should understand what the film is about and should be able to reference the film concept to others with the use of analogue, synthesis, juxtaposition, combination. Such as Jaws in Space = Alien

Every film should have a sub context and every film does have a subtext. The subtext is everything to do with the film. “A message which is not stated directly but can be inferred”

Example 1 – avatar is about mankind’s pursuit to mess with things which has nothing to do with them and not there right to disrespect


Example 2 – The Mask is about a man who is uncool when not wearing the mask but when he slips it on he becomes cool, the subtext of this film is he didn’t need the mask at all to get the girl of his dreams