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Q: What's a movie pitch?
A: A pitch is an original IDEA for a movie, verbally presented to a studio executive, with the goal of generating enough interest that a screenplay and/or a film might be "green-lit". A pitch can be as short as a single sentence, or sometimes much longer—whatever length best helps to sell the idea. (I.e. "A small, seaside New England town is terrorized by a giant, man-eating great white shark during the height of the Summer vacation season. The local sheriff must band together with an unlikely collection of rouges to kill the shark and deliver the town from terror." That would be the short, "elevator-pitch" for Jaws.)
For the purposes of this project I have kept the definition intentionally broad. Some of these pitches are half baked, or knowingly absurd. Others are just the first hints of ideas about to surface. And some have grown too long to really be called pitches at all. But for all of them, the priority has been to get each movie idea down on paper quickly, without over-thinking them—and then, if there's time, to find the strongest, most intriguing thread(s) running through each narrative.
Q: What's the deal with this?
A: This project is inspired by The 100-Day Project, which invites participants to define any creative task for themselves (pretty easy), and then repeat and document that task every day for 100 consecutive days, (really, really hard). It was originally conceived by the brilliant graphic designer, educator and PENTAGRAM partner Michael Bierut, who used the project as an assignment for his graduate design students at Yale.
A few years later, Michael's example inspired the artist Elle Luna, along with the magazine The Great Discontent, to create a social media version of the project. And so on Monday, April 6th, 2015, the 100-day project leapt from classroom to massive social experiment. Think of it as one giant, creative derby, with thousands of participants galloping together in solidarity. If you want to see what other people have come up with for their 100-day projects, just search the hashtag #The100DayProject online, (Instagram, twitter, Facebook, flickr, etc.) The project provides a great reminder that the most important (and often most difficult) part of the creative process is just showing up day-in and day-out.
Q: Who are you?
A: By day, I am an Art Director of book covers at Penguin Random House, the largest English-language trade book publisher in the world. Along with my team of talented designers, I am responsible for designing the book jackets and covers for three publishing imprints, about 100 books a year. I also run my own freelance design practice with a diverse client list including other publishing houses, art galleries and The New York Times, among others. And yes, I may be working on a screenplay or two. ;)
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