Sizzle Reel: Budgets, Investors, and More…

Should You Get Investors For Your Sizzle Reel? We’ve finally received this question enough times that we realize you want the answer. Forgive us for being slow! Today we spell out our thoughts and give you a bunch of tips to help you decide how much time and money to budget for your sizzle reel — your tool for presenting your TV concept to TV networks and production companies. Your Sizzle Reel — How Much to Invest? Priceless info we share today: * should you get investors for your sizzle reel? * how much money should you spend on a sizzle reel? * how much time should you spend on a sizzle reel? * how much cash did we spend on our first sizzle reel? * to what level should you polish a sizzle reel before sending it to us? * do we respond more favorably to a highly polished sizzle reel? * why do the two of us have mushy brains right now? Hit the giant PLAY button above and learn the right way to budget your time and money when making a sizzle reel to sell your TV show concept. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links Contemplating making a sizzle reel? What Goes in a Pitch Tape? Should You Make One? Here’s how you make sizzle tapes and develop shows without going broke. Making a pitch tape? Don’t forget your awesome paper pitch — 5 steps to making them great! Every sizzle reel will likely have interviews. Here’s a guide to getting great interviews for documentaries and reality TV. The easy step-by-step guide to pitching us shows. Our all important first 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: Come Make a Show With Us! Now that you know the ins and outs of sizzle reels, let’s make some TV together! We’ve even given you 7 simple steps to pitch to us, boiling it all down into one post. So you know what’s next:

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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.