How to Pitch

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The secret in getting your story made into a TV show, film or online content is the pitch.

A bad pitch can ruin your project’s chances in the marketplace, whereas a great pitch can propel your project to be funded, commissioned or produced.

This workshop is a one-of-a-kind session where you will learn trade secrets from industry professionals on how to sell your ideas in a clear, dynamic manner.

  This Pitch Workshop is for:

Content creators of TV shows & online platforms
Junior writers
Junior producers
Students or aspiring screenwriters looking to break into the industry


Topics:

Successful and unsuccessful loglines
What goes into a pitch
Samples of pitch deck sold to networks
Logline exercise
Pitching practice

THE Trainers

Adeline Foo has 28 published books and six book awards. Her screenwriting credits include ‘The Diary of Amos Lee and Whoopie’s World’, ‘Two Boys & A Mermaid’, and 'Scrum Tigers’.

Her research and concept arising from the inaugural WritersLab 2017 was produced as 'Last Madame', recently released as Toggle’s first M18 series. Outsourced by a production house, four episodes of ‘On The Red Dot’, a series on Singapore’s strata-titled malls was also written by her.

Adeline’s non-fiction book tracing Singapore’s cabaret women’s role in social history, The Lancing Girls of a Happy World, was published in 2017.

Kane Wheatley-Holder is Head Scriptwriter of Big 3 Media and helms the company’s short-form, long-form, corporate and social media content.

In 2012, Kane won Cartoon Network’s SNAPTOONS competition for his project ‘Maxine Starr: Last Vanguard of the Zodiac’. Kane also wrote for spin-off series, ‘Zoomoo's Got Brains’, which won “Highly Commended” prize at theAsian Television Award 2015.

With Big 3 Media, Kane is the co-creator and scriptwriter for children’s animation ‘Stickers Together’, sci-fi drama ‘Glitch!’, and suspense thriller ‘The Intruder’.

Workshop Details

Date: Saturday, 2 Nov 2019

Time: 10am to 4.30 pm

Venue: Big 3 Media
625 Lor 4 Toa Payoh, #05-01 GenMag Bldg, Singapore 319519

Fee:

$35 for general public
$25 for Lasalle-IMDA WritersLab members
FREE for members of Screenwriters Association

Bonus: One FREE PitchFest submission entry for the first 40 registrants

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General Public Admission: $35

Lasalle-IMDA Writers Lab members: $25

Screenwriters AssociationOctober 10, 2019