Hi, I Like To Pitch.
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):
notecards
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 her hands in embarassment, “THAT’S what you do for a living?!”
Yes, it’s what I do for a living.
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On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Thanks SO much for those.
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Your wife SHOULD be embarrassed.
That didn’t look like a tarantula at all!
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
…that must be why everyone in the room crossed their arms and scowled at my tarantula.
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
well…i was a little dissapointed. you don’t sound enough like Hulk Hogan in that clip.
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Work with me Doug…work with me. You’re a tarantula. Grrr.
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
I forgot to use “the method” when chanelling the tarantula. There goes my shot at Actor’s Studio.
Host: “Doug, what’s your favorite curse-word?”
Doug: “Writer-driven.”
Speaking of tarantulas, all Nick people need to go to the pet store on the corner of Victory and Magnolia…they have a bird eating spider…bigger than your hand! It’s abdomen looks like a cue-ball…SICK!
On October 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am
What was his face doing? HUKKUKHHKKH! HUKKUKHHKKH! HUKKUKHHKKH!
Haha classic! I think it’s pretty clear that you really enjoy what you do.
On November 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 am
Haha, that rocks… you can’t pitch if you don’t have energy and creativity, and you’re like the source from which those characteristics spawn…
That’s awesome. And you got good sound effects; that’s always a plus.
-lepaNneT
On January 26th, 2006 at 12:00 am
hey, the video is down. and i’m pitching next week! i need to seeeeee!!! any idea why the link isn’t working anymore? would love to check it out still…