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Multi-RTS winning and BAFTA-nominated former Shiver/Wise Owl Films creative director Mark Robinson will share the secrets of how he has had nearly 200 (and counting) factual ideas commissioned - from access-driven music documentaries to daytime lifestyle formats, ob doc/reality series to talent-led travelogues.
From the original one line sell to the treatment, the sizzle tape to the finished production, this is the inside track on each step of the journey to getting commissioning editors to say ‘yes!’ - illustrated with examples of successful pitches.
From When Bob Marley/Nirvana/Blondie/ABBA Came To Britain to Last Laugh In Vegas, Yorkshire Firefighters to Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny; the recently announced commissions Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive & Kids to Anita Rani – The Brontes: Sisters of Disruption, this is how award-winning projects like these came to be commissioned.
It’s often said there’s only two rules to making successful TV shows. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. But, after 35 years pitching and making hit TV shows from the North of England, Mark probably has more of an inkling than most.
This course will be delivered face to face.
- The pitching process from the initial one line sell to commission.
- What to put in your pitch document.
- How to sell the idea with a sizzle tape.
- The ‘Columbo moment’ at the end of the face to face pitch. Shh, it’s a secret.
There are no essential entry requirements for this course, but it is recommended that you have a factual idea that you would like to develop the pitch for.
Please fill in the application form.
