Perfect Your Pitch: One day Masterclass with Bob Schultz
- Region:
- London
- Start dates:
- 18th Aug 2018
- Course:
- Perfect Your Pitch: One ...
Get yourself in prime pitching position with this essential one day Masterclass with founder of LA’s Scriptfest and LSF Pitching guru, Bob Schultz.
Spend a f
Get yourself in prime pitching position with this essential one day Masterclass with founder of LA’s Scriptfest and LSF Pitching guru, Bob Schultz.
Spend a full day developing the skills you need to pitch your project to producers, agents, actors, and more. With a focus on general pitching and networking skills in the morning and a full afternoon applying those strategies and techniques to your project, you will finish the day ready to convince anybody to say “send it over.”
This one off Masterclass is guaranteed to make all the difference when you sit down to pitch your projects at LSF (or anywhere else for that matter). Make sure you walk into the room a lean, mean, pitching machine and make it a game changing LSF you’ll never forget.
When: Saturday 18th August 2017
Where: Ealing Studios, Ealing W5 5EP
Passes £69
This full day of Pitch Development will include:
* CULTIVATING YOUR SKILLS: Pitching isn’t about memorizing a monologue, it’s a combination of knowledge, confidence, energy, and professionalism. Let’s get you out of your writerly solitude and into the business of networking!
* FINDING YOUR STORY: Distill your 100 page screenplay into one concise sentence, easy for anybody to grasp in a meeting, in a pub, or on the phone!
* PITCHING YOURSELF: Production can be a long, stressful endeavor. It is critical to be a team player. What is expected of you, beyond writing a quality script?
* DEVELOPING YOUR LOGLINE: Every writer hates them, every producer wants them. What belongs in (and out of) this critical sales tool?
* UNEARTHING THE PITCH IN ANY PROJECT: Identify the exciting details of an existing project and pitch it right there on the spot. Pitching someone else’s project requires the same skills as pitching your own. The only difference is, yours hasn’t been produced yet.
* CREATING IT: Apply your newly-perfected skills to your specific project, and create your iron-clad pitch.
* DRILLING IT: In our boot camp environment, perfect your pitch with your fellow writers through repetition and critique.
* HUSTLING IT: learn and develop the strategies necessary to get pitch meetings — and build your professional network — with the producers, agents, actors, managers, and directors who will hear your pitch. Every pitch is a conversation. You are learning what to say… here’s how to find the right professionals to LISTEN!
‘Bob can fix holes in your logline before you’ve even had time to blink’.
Lynda Kennedy, Screenwriter
It’s time to take control of your career and get those scripts off your hard drive and into the pipeline.
Consider, the only thing standing in your way may just be your ability to both network and pitch effectively.
And yes we get it, none of us love either pitching or networking, but they are required skills for professional creatives.
Masterclass Schedule
* 10:00am – 11:30am: The Building Blocks of Pitching
* Knowledge of Structure, Character Arcs, and Theme… OF A PITCH (not just your screenplay). How you can build confidence, maintain energy and optimism even when it’s not going as well as you hoped. And most importantly, How to pitch yourself.
* 11:30am – 12:00pm: Networking Break
* Not just a coffee break but an exercise to get to know three new people in the room by effectively pitching yourself. Don’t worry, it’s fun!
* 12:00pm – 1:30pm: Distillation Of A Story
* Study the best and see how they pitch for success. Then flex the muscles in an intensive ‘on the spot’ idea generation and pitch exercise that will reveal your innate ability to pitch powerful stories with simplicity and urgency.
* 1:30pm – 2:30pm: Lunch.
* 2:30pm – 4:00pm: Pitching Toolkit
* What is your story? What is your logline? Who are you? Who do I pitch to? How do I find them? Build on the foundations of who you really are and what you are passionate about to reveal both the killer story AND the confident pitcher. Learn the tools, the tips, the tricks and the strategies for effective pitching.
* 4:00pm – 4:30pm: Break and Pitching Practice.
* Again, why just have coffee when you can pitch to your peers and get feedback.
* 4:30pm – 6:00pm: Pitch Perfect
* Comfort through repetition. Improvement through providing and receiving critique. Pitch to exhaustion, and push through!
* 6:00pm Drinks and networking at the pub
Your Outcome: To know how to refine your ideas into a pitch that gets ANYONE to lean into the conversation and create a desire in them to want more. Do this an confidence and success become inevitable.
Your Tutor: Bob Schultz has been the President of ScriptFest & the Great American Pitchfest (GAPF) for a decade, helping to develop a community of screenwriters and make the GAPF the #1 rated PitchFest and screenwriting conference in the world. Bob has written two movies, and produced four. When he is not engaged in screenwriting conferences in Los Angeles, Canada, and London, he is writing, producing, and teaching at colleges and events around the world.
- Course Type:
- short
