A media pitch is a brief letter, email or phone call offering an idea to a journalist or editor at a newspaper, magazine, radio or television station.

The aim of the pitch is to create interest in the story and to find out if the contact is willing to use it.

MICHAEL:  Michael is 17 years old, he has dark brown short hair, dark blue eyes with a tint of green in it. He is wearing black jeans and a black t-shirt with a stripy red and white apron tied around his waist and he is also wearing white trainers. He has a best friend named Marlene and they have been friends for a couple of years, they met when they were 15. Michael had a twin sister who was called Michelle however she died in the womb.

MARLENE: Marlene is 17 years old, She has long brown hair which is tied up into a ponytail, she has brown eyes. She is wearing a black hoodie and black leggings with white trainers. Her best friend is Michael and she has known him for two years.

MICHELLE: Michelle is Michael’s twin sister who died in the womb

MARCO AND LORENZO: Marco and Lorenzo are workers who look after the patients like Michael and Marlene

Blurb:

A short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes.

Blurbs are normally located on the back of books or DVD cases.

Synopsis:

An outline of the plot of a play, film, or book.

SEMIOTICS

Ferdinand De Saussure (1900)

Signifier: What it looks like

Signified: What it means

Charles Pierce (1900)

Icon: Looks like what it signifies

Index: Logical relation between signifier and signified

Symbol: Arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified

(We learn the meaning of symbols)

DENOTATION: Literal or primary meaning

CONNOTATION: Secondary meanings

• TONE OF VOICE
• BODY LANGUAGE
• WARNING SIGNS (SOUNDS, LIGHTS)
• COLOURS
• SYMBOLS
• DREAMS
• CLOTHING
• MUSIC

SIGNS COMMUNICATE A MESSAGE AND STANDS FOR SOMETHING BIGGER

Visual story telling

• CINEMATOGRAPHY – FRAMING,(CLOSE UP, ESTABLISHING SHOT, MID SHOT, EXTREME CLOSE UP) ANGLES, MOVEMENT (TRACKING, PANNING, TILT)
• BODY LANGUAGE
• DIALOGUE
• SOUND – DIAGETIC (AUDIENCE AND CHARACTERS HEARS IT) AND NON DIAGETIC (ONLY AUDIENCE HEARS IT)
• COLOUR
• MISE-EN-SCENE (PROPS, LIGHTING, EXTRAS, COSTUME)
• LOCATION
• ACTION (ACTION + DIALOGUE + CHARACTERS = PLOT)

• Laugh track
• The lovable idiot
• Misfortune
• Inversion of power
• Spiraling consequences of small actions
• Fish out of water
• Family
• Sexual innuendo

I have been working on this script for a few weeks now and i am really close to finishing. I have to edit also and put a lot into each panel with a lot of description so the artist can get a good interpretation for each panel. I have described the sizes of the panels and what kind of shot it is, but now I need to merge panels together so its not too tight and it will help the artist when its being drawn.

Thargs future shocks was the name given to a long running series of short strips in the British weekly comic 2000AD in 1977

Publishing History

The series began in issue 25 of 2000ad titles Tharg’s future shocks in a single short story written by Steve Moore who also created the format. The series would be two or three pages short stories which were normally self contained

These stories would be a testing ground for new artists, writers and creators.

successful authors: Peter Mulligan, Alan Davies and Alan Moore