Solomon Fix

I’m good at pitching. Given the hundreds of pitches I’ve performed (yes, it’s a performance) it would be torturous for my audience if I wasn’t good at it. Don’t lose hope, because you don’t have to be great at pitching to pitch, in the end they’re buying your idea not your salesmanship. In fact, I’ve known folks who’ve brought in ten masterfully sculpted and painted maquettes, animation clips, commitments from Bruce Willis to do voices only to get thirty seconds into a pitch and hear, “We already have three ‘pig’ properties.”

Here’s a couple of posts I’ve done on basics of creating stories and pitching (These are based on my opinion, your results may vary):
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Be Mercifully Short

Want to see me in an actual pitch? Melissa Wolf video-taped some of my last Frederator presentation This is the ONLY known video of me pitching. My wife watched it and put her head in [Read more…]

Hi, I’m Doug TenNapel and this is my second day of pre-production on my Oh-Yeah short. So far it’s easy. I’m looking out my window and daydreaming instead of working. Thinking about my father who swung a hammer every day of his life to make half of my salary and I’d say I had it pretty good.

I’ve got two things to do on my official schedule: 1. Re-pitch the show. 2. Pre-cast the show.

Re-pitching is to remind all of the executives what this show was about…it’s been a month since I first brought this short to them and they have old feeble minds and need a refresher. Working with them is kind of like if Memento was applied to the leadership of a production studio. I’m making a few changes to the boards from the last time they saw it, and they will not likely notice that completely threw out the stuffed [Read more…]