Introduction to Creating for
Television
The "Creating for
Television" area of
TVWritersVault.com
provides a brief and professional perspective on
how to create, pitch and sell your ideas for
TV shows in a marketable format. It will help
you learn how to think and formulate concepts
and TV show ideas 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 TV show ideas 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 create
and sell a new idea for a show, as well as
knowing what the Producers are looking for. Most
importantly, you will learn to refine your ideas
into a language that TV Producers can sell
because they
understand it's potential.
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 the whole pitch.
The potential for a sale is in the originality
and power of the core idea, and that is where an
executive will see the project's potential
entertainment value. In the end, it is similar
to the broadcasting Network communicating that
very specific 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.
You can read more about creating and pitching TV
shows
here.
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:
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.
Synopsis:
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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Success Stories from the TV Writers Vault.
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Click
below to register your television show
idea/proposal for review by our
Industry Members...
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