Creating a Pitch

Give us your pitch for a new TV drama to be

launched in autumn 2018 on Netflix.

300 - 400 words Friday 30 minutes

 Creating a Pitch
Planning & Research Tasks DONE IN
BOOKS (but ICT research permitted)
1. What genre is your TV DRAMA going to be? ( sub-genre or hybrid genre)
2. What are the codes and conventions of your TV DRAMA
chosen sub-genre (.e.g. mystery and enigma, crime, explosions, romantic sub-
plots etc.?)
3. Provide and brief synopsis of the pilot episode of the first season:
Tell us the EQUILIBRIUM, DISEQUILIBRIUM and NEW EQUILIBRIUM
4. STARS
Who are the key characters?
Who will play them and why?
DIRECTOR
Who would you like to direct your pilot episode and why?
Why other TV series or films have they directed?
5. COMPARE YOUR TV DRAMA
What other TV DRAMAs is yours similar to?
Who is the target audience? (full demographics and psychographics) Why
would they be attracted to this TV DRAMA ?
What are the main selling points of your TV DRAMA ?
 Creating a Pitch
Planning & Research Tasks DONE IN
BOOKS (but ICT research permitted)
6. LOGLINE FOR THE PILOT EPISODE
a one sentence summary of the TV DRAMAs narrative
Remember a good logline:
Answers the question - what is your TV DRAMA about?
References characters in some way
May signal the genre
Can communicate the narrative

examples of loglines (from film):

A little boy is schooled in the art of wizardry
A young man and woman from different social classes
fall in love aboard an ill-fated voyage
A 17th Century tale of adventure on the Caribbean Sea where the roguish yet
charming Captain Jack Sparrow joins forces with a young blacksmith in a
gallant attempt to rescue the Governor of England's daughter and reclaim his
ship.
When a Roman general is betrayed, and his family murdered by a corrupt
prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek his revenge
 Creating a Pitch
Planning & Research Tasks DONE IN
BOOKS (but ICT research permitted)
7. Summarise in a short paragraph what types of adventures or storylines can be
expected in the rest of season 1. How will things be set up for Season Two? What
will keep the audience wanting more? What will bring new audiences in?