Pitch Secret: Shift Your POV for Pitch Success

Your reality TV pitch can be derailed early on by one giant POV mistake… and so many of you are making it! A huge percentage of the pitches we receive suffer from this misstep. But not your pitches…not after today. Because you are going to… Shift Your POV and Mega-Improve Your Pitches TV has changed pretty drastically in the last 20 years. If you listen to Joke’s advice from episode 1 of this podcast Make Reality TV Shows & Documentary Series with Joke & Biagio, you know your big homework when starting out is to watch TV. Yet so many, many, many aspiring producers continue to pitch us shows that wouldn’t be on TV today (something we hit hard in our ultimate guide to pitching reality TV.) One of the main culprits of this phenomenon is people pitching shows from the wrong POV — and it’s one of the top reasons we instantly discard pitches as not worth considering. However, this will never happen to you — whether you’re pitching to us or any other reality TV production company in Hollywood. Here’s what we cover today: * “Looking At” versus “Living With” * Hosts versus Characters * Shifting your POV to create pitches that get noticed * Understanding how unscripted television works today * What extreme basket weaving has to do with any of this! Hit the giant PLAY button above to learn how to shift your POV when creating and pitching shows, and massively improve your chances for success. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links Develop Shows without Going Broke — no one needs to end up bankrupt just because they want to make TV. Don’t Pitch These Four Kinds of Shows — never, ever, ever, ever, okay? What TV Networks are Looking For — good to know, right? 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! We’ve even put together

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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.