When it comes to the development of movies, you’ll hear things like “pitch”, “synopsis”, proposals, etc. Which is which? Read below.
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Pitch is a verbal, short, exciting, pitch. The maximum is three minutes.
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Treatment is a pros description of the project. Its about a page in length.
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Synopsis is primarily for fiction. [...]
There are different ways to finance your movie. The truth is the fewer the investors, the safer you are.
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What about documentary and non-fiction financing?
Email people for donations and financing
NEH (National Endowments of Humanities, a government grant)
Development can go up to $80,000 – but must be in the area of humanities (religion, literature, etc), [...]
It’s a legal document that gives you the exclusive rights to a property, for a specific period of time in order to develop that property into a film or television program. Read below for details.
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Your idea has probably come from one of four sources:
It’s original and you though it up on the way [...]
Where does a producer get their material?
There are many placed that a producer may get their inspiration and material for their projects. Among some of the sources are:
News Articles
Religious Texts
Books - If the book happens to be a best seller, then it’s probably bought by the big studios. They don’t let this sort of thing [...]
(The one who reaches for the stars.)
The following information is via an article that was given to me in my “Film Finance, Marketing, and Distribution” class about what is a producer.
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From some small notion, idea or concept, producers see something great, something noble, something worthy of the months and years of struggle that [...]