Pitching A Movie Idea To A Manager Or Producer

Pitching A Movie Idea To A Manager Or Producer - Peter Katz

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Peter Katz is CEO of the management and production company Story Driven. Story Driven clients have worked with studios and streamers including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Universal, Lionsgate, Orion TV, A&E Studios, Landmark Studio Group and Stage 13. Story Driven clients have worked with production companies including Atomic Monster, Gunpowder & Sky, 87Eleven Entertainment and Ghost House Pictures. Story Driven clients have screened their films at festivals including SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, TIFF, AFI Fest and Fantastic Fest. Press outlets who have covered our clients include Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Empire, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire and Vulture. Many of our clients are multi-platform storytellers. They create stories that live across the media landscape, as books, comics and podcasts.
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@AnyDayNow360 3 жыл бұрын

Love when Peter said: "Your goal is to active their imagination, not to filibuster" 🤣 that's a good example for comparison

@filmcourage 3 жыл бұрын

We love that part as well. Those are the nuggets that sometimes happen toward the end of a video that a lot of people miss.

@Comedyschule 3 жыл бұрын

I really like the way ?Karen? does the interviews. The Voice, the questions, everything. One day we will meet hopefully for an Interview 😊

@SamAntics4 3 жыл бұрын

Peter deserves an award for this one! Thank you Sir!

@jonathanmartin-ives8665 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I like this guy's style. He's not all snotty and straight forward. Peter seems like he would take time to pro and con you before throwing you out of his office😁

@kalebarancelovic 3 жыл бұрын

I have to say Karen, I wouldn't have asked for the script based on your original pitch, but after listening to 10:50, I'd want to know more because the story is actually really interesting

@Comedyschule 3 жыл бұрын

Heres a little food for thought. The smartphone is a time machine already. You stare at it for 2 Minutes and 1hour is gone. 😊

@daniellatteo_thefilmmaker 3 жыл бұрын

You nailed it perfectly my friend!! I'm not sure I would want to make a film about it, but that is exactly how it is.

@Comedyschule 3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellatteo_thefilmmaker your roght that is not a film idea. But it is reality somehow. I feel like since smartphones are in our lives, time past much faster. 😅

@edwardbrown1288 3 жыл бұрын

He is truly a creative. There have been other guests who weighed the pros and cons of positioning a pitch from a business perspective more effectively. My favorite guests make the business case to align with the creative endeavor via transplatforms.

@TruthWillOutAllways 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video added to my KZfaq playlist 👍🏻 I’d think of it as any business, gotta have a great elevator pitch that’s quick and to the point. Like a Nolan teaser trailer, give just enough to convey 10% of the idea so people start asking questions/theorizing.

@lesperdants 3 жыл бұрын

That was super interesting, looking at it as a trailer is something i'll definitely remember

@mr.b6789 3 жыл бұрын

Great questions and I love your log line example 👍 And while being from Europe and not knowing what kind of place Chilli's is, I would love to take you there or some place better even if it were just to hear to talk about these interviews 😉

@victortitimas6904 2 жыл бұрын

awesome idea!

@rusalkin 3 жыл бұрын

his face does not move, not a single wirnkle, the most perfect poker face there is, spooky

@letsdiscussit1 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@tymkoc3293 3 жыл бұрын

I really liked this pitch, however, the host revealed too much about what the script is about. It wouldn't surprise me to see a very similar show along the lines revealed in this pitch/trailer, pop up on one of the major streamers in the next year or two. And become a hit show too. That's the problem with pitching, you're serving up your story and imagination for someone to dine on and make millions off.

@filmcourage 3 жыл бұрын

What is your favorite time travel / horror movie?

@AnnoyingMoose 3 жыл бұрын

From Phil Connors' perspective Groundhog Day was a horror movie.

@mr.b6789 3 жыл бұрын

Back To The Future, all parts, basically..

@alwaysbewriting4811 3 жыл бұрын

Triangle

@AnyDayNow360 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda like this idea, lol

@meg-k-waldren 3 жыл бұрын

Ironically The Terminator (1984) plays like a time travel horror movie.

@MunroeE-do7so Жыл бұрын

How do you get to the networking event?

@leebishop7591 3 жыл бұрын

lets go to CHILIs!!! Peter's kinda dry; sheesh, lighten up bro. good interview segment nonetheless.

@filmcourage 3 жыл бұрын

How would you improve this pitch?

@rakscyn 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Karen, for tyour question (and opp to respond!). Here are some thoughts. I would improve the pitch by making it more holistic, so that in addition to the inciting incident, it nutshell's what the protagonist's goal is, how reaching that goal will be thwarted (ideally repeatedly) and what are the climax and resolution. For example, the protagonist may initially just want to return back to his own time (and perhaps knows that if he delays the proceedings long enough, the time machine will auto-pull him back). But then (say) along that process, he falls in love with a woman from that time (see Kate and Leopold) and decides to risk failing to prove his innocence so he has a change at eternal love. Of course, some sort of escape hatch twist might need to be MacGyver'd near end (for suspense!) such as him remembering details from the original history that only someone from the future could possibly know (a la A Connecticut Yankee...), humbling all around, the trials all stop (thus he saves everyone, history is now changed) and he and his lady love go on to have a loving family (a la "Passengers"). To close: the point of a pitch (IMHO) is not to tease the producers ---- it's to hand then the concept on a silver platter (via few minutes elevator pitch) that is so appetizing they are compelled to order the meal (just showing them the parsley, as allusion to the rest, isn't enough). Love your videos, I am a huge fan!!!

@rakscyn 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for typo's!!!

@mr.b6789 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest? I'm just here to learn, I should be over the top if I could improve log lines on the go. Although I realized that a true log line has the premises of the plot and the accompanying emotions. Luckily you can always add such emotions as adjectives 😉

@footofjuniper8212 3 жыл бұрын

Trash it. This is basically addressing the statement Doc Brown makes in BTTF 3, when he says that he could have been sent to the middle ages and burned as a heretic. The "Oh look how intolerant those pilgrims were" bit has been squeezed dry. This is without even getting into the logistics of it, which is something a good time travel movie needs to spend at least a little bit of screen time explaining, especially if it's an invented device, not just some wormhole that appears. How does an app create time travel? How does he "accidentally" fall into it or whatever? How would he be able to pitch it to the financiers without the government stepping in and taking over? Would the ancient people all have perfect teeth and hair, and speak 20th-century English? Would he catch their diseases, or would they catch his? Would he jeopardize his existence? The time travel genre has been told every which way, and very few of them are particularly well-conceived.