Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Movie Idea to Hollywood - The Lecture
"Before you can get someone to read your screenplay you have to know how to pitch them on the idea. Ken Rotcop, an award-winning writer, is the master at teaching writers how to pitch. Remember, it's all in the pitch, it's all in the pitch!"
—Oprah Winfrey, the Oprah Winfrey Show
"Forget about snappy dialogue, characterization and plot. It's the pitch that gets a script read and a movie deal done. If were not for Ken Rotcop, most new writers would out of the loop."
—John Lippman, Wall Street Journal
"The art of pitching, it seems, is one part idea, one part delivery, and about ten parts chutzpah. Ken Rotcop coaches his students on how to make prospective producers fall in love."
—Patricia Ward Biederman, Los Angeles Times
The pitch is an executive’s first impression of you. He must decide whether he likes your story, likes you (very important!), and sees infinite possibilities to become rich. All within two minutes! Rotcop’s sure-fire tips on pitching will show you how to gently grab the executive by the throat and not let go until he agrees to read your script.
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Product Details
- Manufacturer: Creative Screenwriting
- Date available: 01/01/2010
- Publication date: 12/31/2004
- Return policy: 30 days
Meet the Author: Ken Rotcop
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Ken Rotcop, the acknowledged Grand Master of Pitching, is the creator and owner of PitchMart— Hollywood’s biggest screenplay pitch event for writers and development executives. His screenwriting workshop was the subject of a feature-length documentary, Talk Fast, which has won various film festival awards. STARZ network produced a two-part series on Ken Rotcop, Pitching Guru. As a screenwriter, Rotcop’s most prestigious production (which he both wrote and produced) was For Us, the Living: The Story of Medger Evers which starred Laurence Fishburne. Among the honors the film received were the Writers Guild Award, ... |
