Pitches
Who you are
This should include how you came up with the idea and give context to why it’s an important story to tell.
The genre
Your introduction should tease this information but your next line should confirm it.
The plotline
And by this, we definitely mean a brief summary but not a deep dive. You should introduce characters and talk about the rise and the fall without giving away too much detail.
Existing movie examples
While your masterpiece will be different, in an elevator pitch for a movie, providing existing examples of successful films can quickly illustrate your vision.
A closing that serves as a call-to-action
Is it a meeting? Sending over the manuscript? A cliffhanger? You choose but make it clear
Title Pending — the anti panopticon
A dystopian hellscape of information override, with inane and largely fabricated news and politics becoming inescapable. The world is so overrun with extreme opinions that everyday discussion descends into chaos, with almost every individual person unable to speak to anyone else about anything meaningful. Our protagonist was a smalltime journalist before abandoning the world and electing to leave with after convincing his girlfriend to move away from the city with him to live on the outskirts, avoiding other people as much as possible. Camera drones fleet through the skies finding and ‘disappearing’ anyone heretical to whichever stream of government is currently in control. Most books and physical media is banned — nothing can survive if it cannot be posthumously rewritten. Our protagonist is blindfolded and abducted, and taken to what sounds like an operating-theatre-meets-scrapyard. While the streets burn outside, our protagonist is plugged directly in to a server, feeding all news coverage simultaneously into his mind, in the hope that a human brain would be able to process all this information and come to a conclusion. We see, through his mind’s eye, the camera point of view of drones, police body cams, CCTV, news network cameras, social media live streams, radar and sensors from frontline tanks, all together, all at once, overlayed and choppy, flooding his mind with simultaneous extremism, building him into the ultimate vessel of truth, by seeing all lies at once, becoming the anti-panopticon.
It is Fahrenheit 451 meets 1984.
Is it always necessary to learn the truth?
“When ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise”
Why him?