This semester, I have a Professional Development class, which is preparing me for Hollywood. We do a lot of brainstorming and developing ideas that we can pitch in the future. Right now, we're doing practice pitches. They're really nervewracking, because we're in a room alone with a person, but we're being video recorded, and the rest of our class and our professor is watching a live stream in the Writer's Room downstairs.
I've gone yesterday and today, and although I've been super nervous beforehand, once I've gotten in the room, I didn't feel nervous anymore. Pitching is actually kind of fun, believe it or not.
What we do is go in and talk a bit about ourselves and ask what the person wants to hear and then we go into some of our movie ideas. Some of the pitches last ten minutes and some just a few minutes. We have 30 minutes total in the room, so we do whatever we need to do to fill up that time. The person will ask questions sometimes, and we have to work to just move it along and tell them as much as we can about our projects we're pitching.
So, we'll do these mock pitches for about a week or two, and then we'll be pitching to some industry professionals, just for practice. I'm excited.
We also have a feature class, and we have our intensive class next week for that, so I'll be writing a lot of pages. I have about 25 pages so far on my new script. I'm excited to keep working on it.
This weekend, we get to help with interviews for incoming students. I'm really excited, because I was on the other side of this twice, and I'm just happy to meet these people and see what it's like to be on this side of the room.
This semester is going by super fast, and it's crazy, because that means there's only one to go after this until graduation! Eek!
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