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What Is a tv show bible pitch deck?
Before any producer or production studio reads your script, you need to convince them that it has a good idea behind it. Just think about all of the scripts show markers and executives get. Why should they choose to read your pilot over all of the other pilots sitting in the queue? This is where the TV show bible comes in.
No matter how good your show idea is and no matter how perfectly crafted your pilot is, you have a better chance at getting struck by lightning than you do cold pitching a pilot on its own. It’s like going to see a movie without a trailer. If you can’t see the trailer and know what the movie is about, who’s in it, and what problems they face, you probably won’t watch that movie or that show. You don’t want to waste your time watching something that could be potentially terrible. Showmakers and producer execs don’t want to waste time reading a pilot that could very well be a stinker.
The show bible immerses showmakers and producers into your TV show. It puts them in the world you created with your characters and puts them into the conflict and challenges that your characters will face.
The show bible quickly conveys:
- The idea of your show
- The genre
- The style
- What is happening
- Where it is happening
- When it is happening
- And who it is happening to
It also actively defines expectations for genre, casting, audience, shoot locations, timelines, and filming budget. For example, you can describe a show as a “political comedy” like the show Veep. Or, you can say, “This show is like The Sopranos meets Star Trek: Voyager.” The show bible is all about combining visual references to visualize something new—which is your show.
The show bible also cultivates an experience for showmakers to intimately understand the depth and totality of your show on a level that loglines, script competitions, pitch contests, and cold elevator pitches can never do. With a show bible, you have the ability and chance to seduce potential investors and producers into reading your script. Without one, you just have a logline trying to convince a show exec that your story is clever among all the other clever loglines pitched to them on a daily basis. It’s simply not enough.
Your logline is the bait, and your show bible is the hook that reels showmakers into reading your pilot.
What goes into a tv show bible pitch deck?
A TV show bible should include the following items:
- Cover slide
- A one-page pitch
- A logline
- The tone of your show
- The main characters
- Themes explored throughout the episodes
- World-building
- Future episodes and season outline
A true show bible defines character relationships, builds out realistic worlds, lays out a long future of seasons, and stirs up plotlines and conflict in such a compelling lens that showmakers can’t help but beg for more: your show pilot.
When Should You Hire a Show Bible Designer?
After you’ve completed your pilot and have future episodes and seasons thought out, you should move along right into the show bible process. At this stage, take some time out to think about your show’s themes, tone, locations, and who should be cast for your characters. Reference other shows and movies as examples to establish what your show will be like in tone and style. Importantly, you should mentally cast actors who you think could potentially play your characters. Once you have all of this figured out, hire a professional film pitch deck designer to build out your show bible.
Why Hire a Professional show bible Designer?
“Can’t I Just Do This Myself?”
You know what it takes to craft an amazing screenplay and show pilot. You should also know that your pitch deck must accurately reflect your show strongly enough to sell it to a production studio. The perfect show bible pitch deck for your show demands skill sets that exist outside the world of screenwriting. You need a well-seasoned eye for cinematic visuals, strong design instincts, cinematographic knowledge, technological moviemaking experience, and an encyclopedic visual memory of movies, film scenes, film directors, camera lenses, and cinematic references across decades and genres.
A professional film/show pitch deck creative actively pulls the perfect reference, not just a good-looking one.
They recall specific scenes, frames, or performances from films and shows released decades ago that clearly communicate your idea. If you take selling your show seriously, you don’t lead with a weak pitch deck. You put your pitch deck in the hands of Pitch Treats specialists used by film directors, show production studios, and screenwriters around the world.
Show bible Pitch Decks at Pitch Treats
Pitch Treats delivers show bible pitch deck packages that support movies across all genres and budget ranges.
Show Bible Pitch Deck Services include:
- Cinematic design exploration through image and video pulls
- Emotive tone and thematic exploration
- Immersive world-building references
- Deep character and casting direction
- Immersive thematic dives into the psychology of the show
- Visual continuity and a unique one-of-a-kind pitch deck that showmakers will never forget
Pitch Treats combines movie pitch deck design with visual research exploration, story outlines, loglines, and narrative structure to create a cohesive, studio-ready presentation.
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