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Practice makes perfect (hopefully)…
LAST MINUTE CHANGES!
Sound advice from Sibylle Kurz - don’t forget the basics and keep it wonderfully simple! Your audience are not experts.
DOC. CAMPUS MASTERSCHOOL #4 | LEIPZIG | DAY 1 | PITCHING TRAINING
Today’s Tutors:
We arrived in Leipzig quite late last night, due to foggy skies and a delayed Ryan Air flight, so we were tired and groggy by the time we got to the hotel. But we were quickly energised when we saw a whole bunch of our classmates outside the entrance – it was like our own little welcome party.
At breakfast this morning everyone was discussing the “P Word”. This week’s campus is all about pitch, pitch, pitch. By 3.30pm we’d already pitched our project twice, and received super helpful yet quite differing feedback. It seems we have the art angle nailed, but the universal story is yet to be conveyed. Later this evening we will have our one-on-one meeting with the Queen of Pitches, Sibylle Kurz – we’ve got 45 minutes to pick our pitch apart and figure out what the driving engine of our story is. We’ve got it in our heads; we just need to get it into the commissioners’ too.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be one step closer to engaging everyone in Paa Joe’s story.
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We’re here!!!! The final Doc. Campus Masterschool workshop. We have a feeling it’s gonna be a good ‘un.
Good luck everyone!
Day 4: Doc Campus Masterschool | Potsdam | meeting with Lawyer Dr. Stefan Roll and Producer Simone Baumann
DCM provided a fantastic opportunity to a have half hour meeting with a media lawyer, for free!! We were able to run some questions passed Stefan which has made us feel confident over some small contractual issues and the way we have chosen to run our production. Then after sneaking in some festival forum applications and changing our treatment, 8 of our projects were given a thorough dissection by Simone Baumann who advised on how to try and find finance to meet our budgets, informed us about distributors, and explained the mechanics of pre-sales and commissions from broadcasts.
The evening was finished off with lovely Thai food and some great conversations from the other campus guys’ experiences from around the world.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert. A wonderful, wonderful film that will make you cheer!
Day #3: Doc. Campus Masterschool | Potsdam | Individual meetings with Joel/Mark/Sam
Last night we watched Mark Atkin’s recommendation for a perfect film, Mrs Carey’s Concert, a wonderful heart warming story made by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond about a music school working towards a final performance at the Sydney Opera house. I can see many similarities with Paa Joe’s dream to come to the UK and build a coffin for exhibition.
We then had individual meetings with Mark Atkin and we discussed the treatment in detail and the elements that we need for the pitch. It’s difficult to figure out what information we need to deliver in our 7 minute slot at Leipzig!
We then had a fantastically helpful meeting with Joel Wykeham who went through our budget with a fine tooth comb. After that, we discussed how our project has developed with Sam Anthony and Andre Singer . In between these one to one meetings we made changes to our budgets/treatments and editing the trailer. We finished the evening with a wonderful BBQ at Donata’s house (the director of DCM), where we kicked back and relaxed together around a fire.
Our school for the week…
