This is just one tip I picked up from Bob Schultz when I was on his one day masterclass on pitching, creating relationships with producers… When you meet anyone powerful, and you have any kind of meaningful exchange, setup a Google Alert in their name that night (not the following day as you will likely […]
Ahead of the Great British PitchFest at the London Screenwriters’ Festival I thought I would share some of my own observations about pitchers who get the most success from their session. Get there early It’s obvious, but so many fail get there early, find themselves at the end of the queue, all of a fluster […]
What is the primary job of a story teller? To tell the truth. Every so often, someone tells us a story that stops us dead in our tracks. On rare occasions, the telling of that story is also a milestone for that person recounting the tale. And this act of sharing can be transformative. I […]
Recently I spent the whole day locked in a hotel suite with the Living Spirit team, discussing what feature project we should pursue. So why did we need to got to such extreme lengths as to lock ourselves away to decide? Editor Simon Reglar commented half way through the day that he could now see […]
Over the last few days there has been a lot of chatter about pitching in the LSF Delegate Network – lot’s of writers have been asking Bob Schultz for pitching tips and I have had a few emails myself too. So I thought I would share my most basic advice about pitching with the community […]
Over the last few days I have been training filmmakers from across Europe as part of a Euro initiative called Four Corners – and it’s been a blast! I have learned tons about pitching by listening to the filmmakers and mentoring them. So what where the big takeaways? 1. Get the genre clear Without the […]
In this short three minute clip from his one hour seminar at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, Rowan Joffe succinctly explains the power, value and use of a pitch above and beyond ‘selling your story’. I heard this session when it was being edited and what he says really chimes in with my own experience in […]
Recently I had the pleasure of being a ‘judge’ in a pitching session for a film school and I watched the pitches, I saw some trends… here is a list of those observations. 1. Very few pitchers could ‘read’ the panel being pitched to, they could not pick up on when we were confused, bored […]
With dread in my heart, I approach now, the writing of the next project… And I take the first step… While I can write, I find it very hard. Much harder than I think many other writers do. I find it extremely draining, emotionally and physically. And there is a maximum of about three to […]
