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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✦Chas and Stu explore the mechanics of pitching itself--how pitch decks and lookbooks function as tools to convince buyers and what those decision-makers are actually looking for.✦
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-86: Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product
How do you determine what is your MVP?
AI✦Stu and Chas share concrete strategies for pitching projects, drawing on their experiences to help writers understand how to present their work to collaborators and gatekeepers.✦
Listen for screenwriting lessons from 2021, strategies for pitching projects, and insights on running a writers workshop
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In their annual full backwater episode, Stu and Chas let out their pandemic hair, drop the ruse of objectivity, and allow themselves to have even more options about writing and the business of writing… →
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DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles
What can and should you do next?
AI✦The episode examines pitching strategies as a concrete skill emerging writers can deploy to gain traction, including how to use platforms like the Black List.✦
Listen to understand what you can control in your career--and what you absolutely cannot.
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In our annual Backmatter-only episode, Stu and Chas indulge themselves by offering personal opinions on the life and work of emerging screenwriters based on their own personal experience… →
DZ-27: Competing views on Screenplay Competitions
Can screenplay competitions be worth it?
AI✦The episode examines competitions as a form of pitching your work to judges and industry professionals who may champion your script beyond the contest itself.✦
Listen if you're considering entering a screenplay competition and want to hear from writers and industry professionals about whether it's a worthwhile investment!
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After being repeatedly asked by listeners for thoughts on screenplay competitions, Stu and Chas go full back matter for this special episode. They tackle the question - do comps just feeding the hope machine or are they a valid investment? - in their typical detailed (i.e. long) style. With their differing perspectives, Stu (a director looking for material) and Chas (a writer keen for exposure), talk to an impressive roster of guests. We start with Gordy Hoffman, founder and judge of the Bluecat Screenplay Competition; repeat Austin Film Festival attendees - first for the screenplay and now for the finished web series of EX BEST - Diana Gettinger & Monica Hewes; Launchpad 2014 finalist Tony Pitman; and Insite Competition winner Blake Ashford, whose winning script CUT SNAKE hit cinemas in 2015... ten years after winning the competition… →