Since I came here planning to use the pitch process to focus my writing, I didn’t have a lot of material ready to hand out. I have two television series and two features that I can’t decide between for my next project and I thought this would be a great way to focus myself.
Pitch all four at the wall and see what sticks.
The point is that C. was impressed with the idea for my boxing/organized crime series and wanted to see a treatment… but I don’t have a treatment with me.
He was not so impressed with that.
So the moral of the story is to always have at least a treatment to give them. I’m beginning to see that a solid treatment is the lowest level of preparedness that you should come to these with. And for a series, you might want to have one paragraph breakdowns for the first five episodes after the pilot.
He took my email address and said that he might be it touch with me. Heavy on the might.
I ain’t saying that for the lack of a treatment, a sale was lost… but it was a mark against me here.

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