From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production
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Developing your documentary pitch
From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production
Developing your documentary pitch
- Once you've decided on a documentary topic it's time to being to really plan it in terms of it's content and structure and to start explaining the film to others. There are several tools that can really help us out with this; the pitch and the proposal. First, the pitch. Now, the pitch, which is a short, persuasive speech is often presented to potential funders to describe the film project and convince them that the film is worthy of sponsorship. And even if fundraising via a pitch wasn't a large part of your initial filmmaking plans, I want to say that you may want to consider it. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars available in grants for these types of film projects. And if you become skilled at selling your idea, you can take advantage of this. You can also tweak many of the tips that we talk about here for other types of fundraising platforms like crowdfunding campaigns. Whatever your approach, finding a way to package your film as a saleable product is often an…
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