Introduction to Pitch Deck - John Yorke Story

Introduction to Pitch Deck - John Yorke Story

Dates of training - Please note you must attend both days below

Saturday 9th March - Session 1 @ 10am to 5pm (Online)

Saturday 23rd March - Session 2 @ 10am - 3pm (Online)

Overview

A practical two-day training designed for anyone who knows they need to pitch more than a Word doc to gain the attention of commissioners. We welcome writers and producers working on a script, documentary, unscripted or format idea, series, pilot, radio, podcast or book proposal.

This training allows you to:

• Practise and perfect your pitching skills.
• Discover why your pitches aren’t hitting home – and ways to fix that.
• Learn how to see your story in a more effective visual way.
• Use PowerPoint (or Canva, Keynote, Photoshop or equivalent) to apply imagery, fonts and design styles that help your ideas jump off the page.
• Takeaway a template that can be applied to all your future ideas
• Refresh your story skills and use narrative principles to explain an idea to others.
• Distil your thoughts, and exert greater control over the drama of your pitch.
• Gain greater understanding of industry expectations and processes.
• Practise giving effective feedback to and receiving critical notes from others in the creative industries.

By the end of the training you will be able to:

• Demonstrate and describe what makes a successful story, and factors that attract producers, commissioners and financiers to an idea.
• Build professional-looking pitch decks from start to finish.
• Think about the pitch process and how the different elements within a pitch deck sell an idea.
• Adopt 'Out-of-the-box' thinking with imagery and design.
• Look at an idea in an entirely different way and make sure you know it inside and out.
• Utilitse pitch-building tools using your preferred software.
• Communicate a shared language and increased confidence as a creative, when working to pitch a story and in giving/receiving notes.

Participants will need to bring: an idea to work on, laptop plus software and basic competency in PowerPoint or your preferred equivalent deck-creation tool (eg Canva, Keynote, Photoshop).