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The "Creating for Television" area of
TVWritersVault.com provides a brief
and professional perspective in how to conceive, create and sell your ideas for
TV shows in a marketable format. It will help you
learn how to think and formulate concepts for today's thriving and competitive
television
programming world, as well as understand the inner-workings of the television industry
to streamline your creative efforts in the most viable directions.
The most valuable tool in
learning how and why companies will buy and produce certain ideas is experience.
Pitching your concepts to executives in the industry will also build
relationships regardless of whether or not your idea for a tv show is purchased.
It is creating and building those direct relations that enables the creator of
concepts to better understand how to pitch a tv show, as well as what
specifically the buyers are looking for. Most importantly, you will learn to
refine your ideas into a language that the executive can sell because they
better understand it's potential.
Having a completed TV or Movie script can
help a project along in development and enable a producer to better see the
projects potential, but unless you are able to concentrate your story or program
format into a brief synopsis with a highly marketable "logline", a producer will
never invest the time in reading the entire script or treatment, and there is no
chance of the project being produced.
The foundation of any project's success is
built on the ability of the executives and producers to communicate the project
efficiently throughout the development process, not to mention the fact that if
a busy executive isn't interested in the basic concept or premise of your show
they will never invest the time in reading a full script.
The sale is in the
originality and power of the concept, and that is where an executive will see
it's potential entertainment value. In the end, it is similar to the
broadcasting Network communicating that very basic and original concept to the
viewing audience in the advertising and marketing of the TV show.
At the
Television
Writers Vault we help the writer bring the "idea power" of their project to this form of
presentation, and provide the industry executives with exactly their preferred
method of reviewing materials for development and sale.
The following is a simple
structure (content not included) of presentation for any project, and is similar to the
registration/submission form used for the
Television Writers Vault. Most
project outlines describing a show will be
1 to 5 pages in length:
TITLE OF
SHOW :
FORMAT OF SHOW
("Reality Series", "Game Show", "Made-for-TV-Movie", "Drama Series" etc.)
:
Reg.Writers
Guild of America # or
www.CreatorsVault.com registration number (Recommended, but not mandatory):
AUTHOR NAME:
LOGLINE:
(1 or 2 sentence description of your concept. Similar to what you might see in TV Guide
or on a poster for a movie, but a bit
more descriptive of content).
TREATMENT: (Synopsis,
Outline) A detailed description of your show as we would see it on TV. Usually 1 to 3 pages in length. It's important to be efficient with your
descriptions, yet give enough information to provoke interest of the reader. The
golden rule: Show the reader what we are watching-
There is no “right” way to form a
TV pitch for the various reality-based and scripted genres in television.
However, there are philosophies and formats that will help the buyer see more
clearly what your TV show idea is, and it’s potential.
Please refer to the
additional menu items within the "Creating for Television" navigation bar to the
left, for insight into creating projects for all genres of TV.
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