How to Pitch a Screenplay - Hollywood Pitch Festival
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2012
- How to pitch a screenplay from Allen Ury turn your film festival films into life. To submit a script go to www.hollywoodpitchfest.com to sell your screenplay or script. Voted the best pitch festival in the world! Hopefully all screenwriters will enjoy this free script pitch lesson
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One thing that can really help with a pitch is to have a four page treatment of your screenplay. It's double-spaced with only the main characters. The first page is the first act, the next two the second act, and the last page is the third act. If your pitch doesn't go so well verbally, then you've got that nice little four page treatment that really does tell your story.
I could listen to this guy all day :>
Thank you so much for this advice. I'm pitching a script tomorrow to an animation studio boss, he's read the basic script already and their whole team is excited.
This video helped me a lot, specifically in splitting the Acts proportionately and also sticking to the story and allowing the listener to figure it out instead of trying to explain each character and 'what it means to me'.
Just great when everything clicks together and someone like yourself has taken his time to upload this great advice, bravo! :)
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I am planning to pitch in ten days...you have helped TREMENDOUSLY!!! Thank you!
Howdy it go?
@@ikemefunaumeadi4947 👍
how did it go?????
Richard, a story is a story. You won't be telling a story if you don't follow the powerful advice of this terrific storyteller. I get it and won't fail to apply it.
You have condensed the essentials in 14:47 min. Thank you so much!
OMG! Thank you Marty! Thank you, RUclips! I've been thrashing around for days! Years! Where have you been all my life?!
I'm in the process of preparing a pitch for my novel, "The Revised Kama Sutra." Listening to this was useful. Thank you!
Best description I've heard. Really helpful. Thank you!
Thank you this has helped immensely as a first time screen writer!!
Thank you! It was just great! Love your excitement when talking about story
Great advice! I will be using this at the film festival. Thanks for posting.
Great Advice. I'm attending the HPF in July and this is indeed helpful.
I really enjoyed this video. Confirmation that I'm on the right track.
This guy is the best. Period.
Great video. This is one I'll come back to watch again. A lot of useful information. Thank you!
Yep - I have archived this ... as I will watch it many more times. Thank you for your energy sir.... this is bloody awesome!
Haha that’s the first thing I do 5 mins into the video…
@@ricardorichmond2211 It's gold
Thank you Sir, Marty, wonderful explanation. I salute you.
I love the way you describe things
It makes a lot more sense to reveal the ending. Otherwise they don't know the entire story, so they don't know what they'd be buying until after they bought it, and they also don't want to take the risk of the twist being unsatisfying and undermining the whole film. It needs to be tested on them. I don't tell my friends the ending, but if I was pitching I would.
Very helpful. I'll see it over and over to became natural
Thank you Marty Kelly. Legend
Thank You so much for uploading this informative video
learned a lot in under 15 minutes. thanks
very good and simple explanation. thanks
You just saved me, thank you so much
Wonderful and to the point. Thanks!
Fascinating video. Very interesting stuff
Thank you for this!
really cool n helpful! thanks for the tips!
You are very good at this. Thx alot
Alan Yuri... You are wonderful. Well said sir, wow.
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Thank you so much Marty!
Great video!! Thank you Marty^^
The best. Thank you.
This has value and helped me rethink my pitch. However, I truly wish that it wasn't so dark and that the sound had been recorded better. Other than that, there is value for those who are trying to figure out how to prepare their pitch.
the way he describes loky from thore is awesome haha
Gold!
I have the Greatest Action Hero maybe the Greatest Movie that Hollywood has seen for a long time bar none! However, I must learn to pitch it perfectly and sell it maybe sell the sizzle more than the entire movie I have already written the script to let you know. I am still debating about this but I believe you have the best plan to make that happen. God I wish you were my mentor because we would make a fortune! Check You are starting to give me the confidence thank,you
His English language easy understand nice good guy!
Great advice....
thank you very much sir
Thank you :)
Of course, as mine is a coming of age movie, it is a bit harder to follow these rules precisely, but I am trying to use this advice to the extent possible.
unless, of course your character refuses to grow up
WHY IS THIS SCARY?? :(
+sunshinekiara You mean the intro?
Tomtheartist i think it's the lighting
he sound like lucifer
sunshinekiara
even just how dark his eyes are.
you just get the vibes that this guy probably murders people for fun
Because he gives off really bad vibes - there's a lot of toxic masculinity and satanism in Hollywood. He's kinda just typical, unfortunately.
good info
I have to create a screenplay pitch for my university interview. I have a solid story but not too strong on writing. Does anyone have any tips or advice?? thanks :)
I can hear him just fine.
Good instructional video and easy to understand. Of particular value is understanding WHO you are pitching the film to and WHY. Dave Stang, movie producer, 'BLACKLITE2017 Full movie".
8.04 to 8.36 is exactly what I did when I pitched to some development producers :-(
Wish I had seen this before then!
Great advice still, hopefully i'll pitch again so thank you!
loool Judd Apatow's face as you pitch Prometheus Part Two. 0____0
Really great advice, but for the logline why not drop the "top secret spy organization" part and just say "Six of the worlds greatest super heroes are recruited to fight -" and so on. Opening with the top secret agency makes it sound like the movie is about the organization rather than the heroes, to me at least.
Mannn great question because outside of the avengers this helps me a lot cause I thought something wasn’t right about my log-line… and taking out some words can change the feel to everything while still saying the same thing, just more clear and not changing a thing… thanks thanks thank you
Like about Pitch video, but question is remained at the same place
Script is a basic building bloc of a project and still the pitch video maker do not have any advantage of their hard work, if a pitch video selected it must be paid or must be selected for the big FilmFestival in a Pitch Video Catagories, a Script Writer need the encouragement, I also made a PitchVideoForAFM 2013 the world's most popular and prestigious platform
I got encouragement, even then I am waiting how to get start it into a full feature film.
is it ok if we dont reveal our twisting ending?
But what if you want to experiment with structure and not bore everyone with a traditional 3 act screenplay?
AVENGERS irony in a nutshell: Before they can deal with the megalomaniac from another dimension, they have to deal with the megalomaniac within.
I can only write a synopsis, not a full screenplay, what can I do? Who can I sell it to?
+Tomtheartist probably nothing. You need to study the craft and write it.
+SayNoToTroll You mean make a short-film?
SayNoToTroll
Actually, I made a few short-films and hope they will get discovered and turned into feature films. Please, have a look at my Acting stuff playlist.
You might try a service called MAD OLD NUT.
The image is not focused x(
my ending is insanely awesome!!!!!!! but i want to construct a better story
FULLER LETS FINISH THE IPHONE VIDEO PLEASE.
I am away to the races I am going for it! Thank you very much for your insider tips and fantastic insight! my hero is a Global Terrorist battling super hero... a Super Ninja with EM Powers named SHURIK`EN it rhymes with Hurricane. I have already a rough draft of the script. I had the title as SHURIK`EN the Super Ninja but I think it will be more powerful just as SHURIK`EN!
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Excellent advice. But boy its hard and scary to do it ALL in six to seven minutes. How fast can one speak?
Huge mistake to speak fast.
Someone should pitch a microphone into this room.
Only if you're making a cliffhanger
:)
I really don't like background music especially when I use a headphone. It's uncomfortable for my heart.
Bad sound is hurting you.
Excuse me 🤨 How is achieving quoting "can there be anything left in the movie? I think I've seen the whole thing?" a great job?! You said to put in all the good stuff, but I think it's the exact opposite because that's exactly why I hate trailers these days. For one, if it really makes me feel like I've already seen the whole thing, why would I still wanna go watch it? TBH it would make me go WTF? they have shown too much! The other thing is, sometimes when they actually showed all the good stuff in the trailer, then if I did end up watching it I often find it disappointing. Because! like you said I've already seen all the good stuff! There is nothing else in the movie that could top that. To sum up, I'd try to avoid watching trailers that are over a minute long and just stick with the teasers.
Hey fool, he was not pushing trailers.
He was pushing the structure of trailers, good trailers that have all that information in order to teach you how to craft your pitch to sell a potential buyer on the complete idea of the story.
Otherwise, if he were just talking about trailers, I would agree with you. But he wasn’t, so your comment was off target.
playback speed 1.75 makes this easier to watch
where the fuck is he?
Is he wearing a hat that is the same color black as the background, or does he somehow not have a top to his head but still have a very good functioning brain?
If someone gives you mouth-to-mouth are you honestly going to offer him a Certs after? He is offering information, not asking your opinion.
your voice?? auto tune
sooooo much banding......
wait what? your saying a trailer that spoils a film so by the end you feel "why do I need to go see it, I've already seen it" is good? how is that good? you want people to go to the cinema not to just see the trailers and be like "meh seen all the major plot points and it even tells me what the climax is so don't need to go and pay to see it now " seriously!
Very useful advice on pitching but... Not Scary at all!... But... don´t you think that this out of focus image aaaaaall the time is making the guy seem sort of a scammer or something?? ahahahahaha!!!
it seems a lot of work for a $15000 paycheck. And they can take it off you hands and totally rewrite it. May I suggest write a book instead.
Great advice, terrible lighting.
when, you people say There must be a wow factor in our story then why so much absurd and cliched movies are being made?
never trust a man who wears a hat like that
I really enjoyed this video. Confirmation that I'm on the right track.