Hey everyone - along with placing as a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition - I've won a free pitch! I'm terrified of a verbal pitch due to my speaking phobia - but I'm ready to kill it!! (The pitch, not the fear - I've learned to live well with it). Anyway, Please comment with your best pitch stories, links, advice, not about the speaking fear, please, just how to deliver the best possible pitch. Thanks everyone!!
Screenwriting : Pitch Advice! by Lisa Isaacson
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Congratulations Lisa. I'll be monitoring your replies as you are not alone in this phobia. All the best
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Congrats, Lisa Isaacson. One tip is to make sure you pause between sentences (very brief pauses so the listener(s) can think on what you've said). As writers, we want to tell and tell and tell without taking pauses (because we want to get everything in).
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Congrats, Lisa!
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Oh yay! Congrats, Lisa! I have stuff to send your way for this :)
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Congratulations. I used to be afraid of public speaking but I learned the hard way that if you don't get over yourself and speak up for yourself, you never get anything in this world. I went to a Pitchfest once. It was like speed dating. You had 5 minutes to get your point across. You didn't have time to be afraid. 1 minute to introduce yourself, 2 minutes to give the title, logline, and brief summary, and 2 minutes to answer questions. The worst thing that could happen was they said 'No'. Once you get several 'No's, you either get dejected and go home or you get fired up and start speaking up. I got 10 read requests out of 20 pitches. Not bad for a guy who was scared of the public.
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Congratulations Lisa!
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If you write down the main points of your pitch you really want to make sure you hit and practice your pitch over and over you will be more confident in your delivery, as you'll know you will cover what you want to say without worrying you've forgotten something. Remember this is something awesome that you've worked hard for and should be proud of yourself.
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Contrats Lisa!
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Lisa:
I suggest leading off with telling the pitch recipient somethingabout yourself. Be succinct on presenting your story idea and allow the listener ample opportunities to engage with you. Nicely offer the listener reasons why someone should make your script into a film and consider offering some comparison genre films and a unique selling proposition. Beyond that, look at this as a fun opportunity to learn and receive feedback.
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Leave them wishing they had more time to hear more . ..