How To submit a project for TV?

By Alexis Nunez Oliva
Executive Producer of Television

Among the dozens of emails that I receive weekly, a constant consultation is how a project for TV.

The apparent simplest things of this work are often many times unknown, not only scarce information on how to prepare a proposal for a television project, but in almost all the websites of the largest television companies did not find at least one space to post ideas, and less an explanation of the steps for the delivery of an argument or a synopsis.

There is a "form" within the general guidelines that can serve to occur interested in his ideas and producers to accept proposals. Every creative person has his own sense of what to write and each farmer would surely like to read in different ways a project.

Producers of television and consultants often receive many more projects of what we imagine. Most of the proposals lacked originality or at least of innovative ideas, bold, different. But more than that: they are poorly written, poorly structured.

The routine of everyday work makes the professional television, reading draft after draft, start to check with the prejudice that this is a repeat of anything previously read-which is also a mistake because this indisposition can blind front to the good.

After talking with some colleagues and television producers with knowledge of the "conditions" under which analyzed the proposals, seven points breakdown that could be implemented.

To take into account to submit a draft

1 - A CERTERO TITLE: The title leaves established from the outset what this is about the project. Lets understand if I read something else or close to their interests production.

2 - BE BRIEF: is the advice for all that is required to submit written or read in any work. The short time that all have today to meet others, brevity makes it determines who read about the ideas of others. Three pages is sufficient for an initial presentation.

3 - LARGE TYPE: Use a font of 12 points will be easier and quicker reading of the draft. The text is often harass and confused boy at first sight because it is assumed that there are more words. Conversely, a larger text is not very polite in sight, is confusing because it conveys despair.

4 - SHORT PARAGRAPH: Do not write paragraphs of more than five lines each. This allows very rapid advance in reading, without tiring.

5 - SEVERAL IDEAS FOR PARAGRAPH: include at least two important ideas or information in each paragraph. This prevents the write paragraphs that say nothing and end the infill and bored concerned that the draft reads.

6 - ORIGINAL IDEAS TO HOME: ideas that are considered most original of the project should be just beginning to catch the attention. We have to convince from the first words to read on the project. Some readings are usually left up to half ... and maybe at the end was the best of the proposal.

7 - CLEAR OBJECTIVE: it is very important that the project involves what are its fundamental objectives. A few points that indicate the overall purpose of the proposal is very useful for those who decide.

None of these seven points guarantee success in the presentation of a draft, but resolves any obstacles in development and is closer to that is not thrown away in a drawer and forgotten among old papers.

Two final suggestions: any idea should be registered under the laws and procedures of copyright in each country, before submitting it, stating in the last sheet registration data, and a week after he has given the project should get in touch who welcomed him to find out if you have any response or information from the process.

If these few pages and those few paragraphs, the idea draws attention, someone will contact the author for more details.

One might think that there is little room for surprise, but it is not. Whoever is unable to express in writing with passion and what it implies is a good idea, hardly will be presenting a good project for television.

Television is entertainment, and a synopsis that attracts is not the first sign of future production boring.

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