Screenwriting : Written Screenplay Pitch Samples by Shirley Beatty Collier

300 word real pitch In the 1920's A New York doc dock worker helps his friend another doc worker to open up his own speakeasy. Louie is smart while tommy is risk taker as far as buying booze, taking care of booze truck hijackers with his gang. paying of cops and going after other speakeasies. Louie hires a sultry sexy jazz singer as a main attraction and both compete for a sultry jazz singers hand in marriage; Louie is smart and recruits his other dock workers to build out the interior of an old warehouse he leased. He used flyers and word of mouth to hire his staff. once built he finds Lannie a beautiful long legged red headed jazz singer. He also call the police chief and invited him down to the club as it was built out and empty of people, he ends off buying the police chief to keep out cops or have him call ahead before a raid. Tommy was the risktaker his club was rough but he also had a gang of mobsters to guard the booze trucks from hijackers

Dej that Louie found at a bus station was a daughter of a distant cousins friend that died. she was meek, poor and seeking a new life as Louis took he in, treated her a family and she started to use her talents to do the books, sew the cigarette girls dresses and eventually became Louie's manager

Into this storm steps Dej, a meek young woman Louie discovers at a bus station. Poor and seeking a new life, she proves invaluable—keeping the books, sewing dresses for cigarette girls, and eventually rising to manage Louie’s club. Her quiet strength anchors Louie’s operation, turning his speakeasy into a thriving business.

As jazz fills the nights and gangsters guard the doors, the story becomes one of ambition, loyalty, and love. Louie and Tommy’s choices—brains versus risk, romance versus rivalry—set the stage for inevitable conflict. In the shadows of Prohibition, survival demands more than liquor and music; it demands sacrifice, cunning, and the courage to face betrayal.

I've gotten advice from Stage 32’s written Pitch Sessions that helped me make my pitches and scripts better, Shirley Beatty Collier.

Stage 32 has two written pitch examples (one for a show and the other for a movie). Stage 32 also has a verbal TV pitch beat sheet and a verbal feature pitch beat sheet. You can get them by emailing success@stage32.com.

Here's three Lounge posts with pitch advice:

www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/Pitch-Advice

www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/Pitching-44

www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/Why-Pitching-Matters-And-How-to-Mak...

The Pitch Practice in the Writers' Room is the best pitching resource in my opinion. Pitch Practice is every Thursday night at 5:30 P.M. PST/8:30 P.M. EST. You can sit in and listen to members practice their projects and give them feedback. You can pitch your project too, but you have to sign up. The hosts, Noel Thompson and John Mezes, take names during Pitch Practice for people to pitch the following week. You have to sit in and listen at the practice one or two times before you can pitch.

The Pitch Tank in the Writers’ Room is an incredible pitching resource too. The Pitch Tank is where you pitch your script to an executive and get feedback. The Pitch Tank is once a month.

Stage 32 has a free webinar called "How to Write a 2 Page Pitch for Your Television Series" (www.stage32.com/education/products/free-stage-32-webinar-how-to-write-at...).

Stage 32 has a free webinar called "How to Create a 2 Page Pitch For Your Feature Film" (www.stage32.com/education/products/how-to-create-a-2-page-pitch-for-your...).

Stage 32 also has a free pitch webinar: www.stage32.com/education/products/pitching-tips-from-the-pros-your-blue...