Hollywood Pitch Meetings: Pro Tip For Success

Just back from Real Screen 2015 (and both sides of the pitch table.) Having taken and overheard many “hollywood pitch meetings” gone wrong, we realized that most aspiring producers go wrong at the exact same point in their pitch meetings. Not you…not after today! Here’s the one thing you can do to guarantee you get something positive out of every single pitch meeting you take. It can be summed up in three words: Pivot Your Pitch You can instantly tell someone who’s been taking Hollywood pitch meetings for awhile from someone who hasn’t — and it’s the way they pivot their pitch to excite the buyer they’re sitting across from. How? Today we cover: * What it means to pivot your pitch * The right–and wrong–ways to answer questions in Hollywood pitch meetings * A true story of producers who did this all wrong * Whether or not it’s okay to brainstorm while in Hollywood pitch meetings * How our filmmaking friend just made one million dollars by being “hands on” and proving himself Hollywood Pitch Meetings: Make Them Count You’re going to learn the hard way that when taking Hollywood pitch meetings, (whether or not in “Hollywood”) you really only do get one shot at a first impression. (Even more reason to make sure you understand how to pitch a reality show.) Learn to pivot your pitch, engage your exec, and answer questions the right way, and you’ll be one of the pitch meetings execs (and production companies like ours) smile about. Hit the giant PLAY button above to learn how to pivot your pitch, and have great hollywood pitch meetings. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links Don’t Make this Pitch Mistake — it will keep you from pivoting your pitch in hollywood pitch meetings. Stop ruining your pitches — brilliant advice from a former Hollywood Exec who’s seen it all. Cheat sheet to pitch us reality TV shows and documentary series.. Check out our 8 episodes with a clickable table of contents on the Joke and Biagio Youtube channel. Subscribe to Joke and Biagio on Youtube. Seriously, subscribe. Biagio has talked Joke into going on camera. A minor miracle. Come on, you know you want to click this sexy subscribe button: Make Reality TV Shows & Documentary Series With Us!

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*Named "New and Noteworthy" across all podcasts, as well as TV & Film, Arts, and Education. Subscribe now. Ready to create, pitch, and sell documentary series, unscripted TV shows or reality series and specials? From creating pitch tapes to meeting with TV networks, developing your ideas to discovering reality TV stars, this podcast features tips on working in unscripted film and television that you won't find anywhere else. Get top-industry secrets and even pitch your shows to Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers and Unscripted Television Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina. Recently, the duo have helped both new and experienced producers bring projects to television on MTV, BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY, A&E, and CNN/HLN. Your show could be next. Subscribe now. ABOUT JOKE AND BIAGIO: With over a decade of experience in unscripted film and television, this married couple has made TV shows, specials, and pilots for CNN, HLN, A&E, The CW, Biography Channel, NBC, CBS, Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Discovery+, E!, IFC, Logo, Oxygen, Style Network, VH1 and MTV. Their feature length documentary DYING TO DO LETTERMAN played in theaters across America, was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award® consideration, and named “New and Noteworthy” on iTunes alongside The Dark Knight Rises, Brave, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Subscribers to this podcast will learn the secrets of the Unscripted TV and Film worlds, and how to apply them toward career success. Subscribe today.