Professional Pitching for Documentaries
The Concept
A course by Marco Spagnoli , Journalist, Screenwriter, and Documentary Director
About the video: The Concept
Overview
“Here I will show you how to write the concept of the project, collecting all the elements of the story in a clear, concise and direct way.”
In this video lesson Marco Spagnoli addresses the topic: The Concept, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Pitching for Documentaries. Learn to draft a clear and effective pitch to present your documentary and tell a story from an original point of view.
Partial transcription of the video
“The concept You now have all the elements available to create the pitch of your story. We will go and review them together and in this lesson we will start from the concept. The concept must be concise, legible, and must contain clearly and directly all the elements of the story you intend to tell. For many, this is the hardest part, but it is important to be able to summarize your ideas in a few lines, because you don't necessarily have a lot of time available from your interlocutor. So, the more succinct you are, the more confident you will be that he will succeed to understand and unders...”
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Course summary for: Professional Pitching for Documentaries
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Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Film, Video & TV, Script, Storytelling, Writing
Marco Spagnoli
A course by Marco Spagnoli
Marco Spagnoli is a journalist, screenwriter, and documentary director. Although he studied engineering, through a series of events he ended up working in radio, which led him to film journalism and gave him an insider's view of the film industry, as well as the opportunity to personally meet famous directors and industry professionals.
He later began to frequent film festivals and in 2000 started writing for the magazine Giornale dello Spettacolo, eventually rising to the position of director. In 2009, he filmed the documentary Hollywood sul Tevere, which launched his career as a documentary director. Since then, he's produced over 40 projects, some of which have been featured on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
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