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DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4
How do you make effective pitch decks and look books for your projects?
AI✦Marc Furmie walks through the fundamentals of constructing pitch decks--what they are, how they differ from lookbooks, and what specific materials buyers expect to see.✦
Listen if you're preparing to pitch a project and want to understand how to create compelling visual materials
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Chas and Stu are joined by writer/director/producer/multi-hyphenate Marc Furmie of Rezistor Studios to talk all things pitch decks and look books. Coming from an advertising and music video background, Marc shares his experience in putting together visual materials to pitch a project. We discuss the difference between pitch decks and lookbooks, how they help you sell your projects, what buyers are looking for, television vs features, and how do we make yours better… →
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DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip
HOw does a writer work with a director (on a short film?)
AI✦Chas walks through taking an idea from initial pitch to green light, covering how the concept was sold and shaped before it became a script.✦
Listen if you are thinking of producing your own short film!
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This episode, Chas steps down as co-host (kinda) and is interviewed by Stu as a guest, alongside director Ben Mizzi, about the short rom-com that Chas wrote and Ben directed & produced. The episode covers taking an idea from pitch to screen, working with a director, directing performance on the page, and marketing and distribution strategies for short films… →
DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1
How can I develop my plot before writing the screenplay?
AI✦Part 3 will address how to write short documents for selling purposes, suggesting pitch materials are part of the broader conversation about pre-screenplay documents.✦
Listen to understand why a treatment isn't something to dread, but the plot-development tool that saves you months of writing.
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Stu and Chas are joined by fan-favourite, Stephen Cleary, to NOT look at what makes great screenplays work -- but what makes great “short documents” work. We draw on Stephen Cleary’s wealth of experience in developing work with writers, as a producer, as a script editor and as a former head of development… →