All posts tagged "pitch"
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What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories... -
A Rising Tide: San Diego Makes a Pitch to Be California’s Next Big Filmmaking Destination
Think “San Diego” and the first thing that comes to mind is glorious weather, white-sand beaches and authentic Mexican food. Turns out... -
Breaking the Ice (Cube): How Fist Fight Director Richie Keen Survived the Most Nerve-Wracking Pitch of His Life
At 3:15 p.m. on July 1, 2015, my agent called to tell me that Ice Cube wanted to meet me in person.... -
High Concept, A Recipe: The Four Essential Components to a High-Concept Pitch
The single most in-demand quality of a script is for it to be “high concept.” But what does that really mean? That...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2