Autorka čerpá z rozmanitých zkušeností, od práce zdravotní sestry na pohotovosti až po působení v televizním průmyslu v Londýně a New Yorku. Její cesta ji z operačního sálu zavedla do divoké přírody Afriky i do světa televizní tvorby, kde se podílela na vývoji mnoha dokumentárních a reality pořadů. Tato bohatá životní zkušenost se odráží v jejím psaní, které často obohacuje nečekané detaily a pohledy z netradičních úhlů. Její zájem o dokumentární film ji inspiroval k vytvoření pořadu o válečných veteránech, který získal ocenění.
The must have guide to traditional, emerging and creative TV funding models that are being developed and exploited by social media-savvy documentary filmmakers. Each chapter covers a different form of funding and offers practical tips, case studies and also reveals what grantors, brands and NGOs are looking for in a pitch.
Greenlit explains how to develop, research, pitch and sell your idea for any type of factual or reality television show. It gives the inside track on what channel executives are really looking for, stories of how hit shows actually came about and advice from channel commissioners and development producers.
""Blows the lid on so many TV secrets"" Tom Archer, Controller Factual, BBC ""If every first-time producer read this before pitching a program, I guarantee a greater success rate"" Gary Lico, President/CEO, CABLEready, USA In recent years there has been an explosion of broadcast and cable channels with a desperate need for original factual/reality programming to fill their schedules: documentaries, observational series, makeover formats, reality competitions. Yet television executives receive a daily avalanche of inappropriate pitches from pushy, badly prepared producers. Only 1 in 100 prop