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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Television: Inform, Form and deforms

By Alexis Nunez Oliva
Executive Producer of Television

The last comment "The hypocrisy of demanding a television," I brought a flood of e-mail messages and letters, demonstrating not only the perennial interest in television, but it's controversial topic.

While someone named Katy tells me that "television is entertaining, but comes to see her expensive" (referring to the strain that can cause), Adriana, graphic designer, calls "personal and professional ethics" to those who produce programs, and Rosa, announcer, says that it can bring, "as well as information and entertainment, a bit of culture and education."

While the television commercial, created to entertain, has no obligation to educate or to be a center of learning, it has a duty not to warp, and it is here where the use of ethics in creativity, not to mention that Parents should be implemented as translators for their children in front of the television reality show where it on the news or through social characters that usually appear in soap operas and series (the murderer, the envious, the traitor).

Questioning the hypocrisy of demanding to television because I intend to insist on those teachers and family members to the restless child, they take as a remedy, with ignorance, turn on the television to evade its responsibility to "entertain", and then collide with a regular programming that criticize the discovery of the damage that could result in the formation of the individual.

Mauritius Alatorre, Director of Production of a television company, clarifies that lacked say that I am referring to the broadcast television (which is free and we view with a simple antenna), and rightly so, because the pay-TV (cable or satellite) has a marvelous diversity where we can learn from and how was the formation of the earth, to the efforts of caring for his flock lions, usually done with a great sense of entertainment, learning by impersonating a way of narrating stories compatible with television. Channels are known as "niche" that go directly to the public interested in certain topics.

A television commercial (open signal) can ask whatever is happening to us, but you can not meet everything we want. Stroke among its objectives to teach not to lie or to commit crimes, it is a valid aspiration and every day I see more social commitment in almost all the programming world, in its writers and producers.

The same television criticized in recent weeks has been instrumental in mobilizing countries and continents to recent natural disasters in the Caribbean and other land, and he succeeds precisely because its power of conviction, on hearing of its success, because people who watch their programming understand we must move towards solidarity. These are the moments in which commercial television can "train" exhibit positive attitudes and consciousness.

Today we applaud that, thanks to television (and other) many leaders and bureaucrats to be more careful in their actions, because the transparency of crystal television screens typically reach their offices, their pockets and bank accounts, when in the informational space discovers and reports of corruption and denouncing the power of the image. That's one way to inform forming against deformation.

Someone anonymously wrote to me saying that "the media are a direct influence on how people perceive things, change ways of thinking, creating fashions ..., but this also happens with the classes of teachers in schools The talks between friends and family, and with millions of photographs and articles on the Internet are just a click to occur if you do not watch and care for the "contents" to a simple reunion weekend.

Television, to have an identity and an own sound, with moving images that live in the home, produces a "credible" special assimilated by the viewer. That's communicative power, we must assume our responsibility in the upbringing of children, thus avoiding any recurrence, as adults, manageable beings and imprecise, as could happen with any other experience in their lives that deformed his character, and not only because of television.

Parents must take responsibility perennial selection: what programs in which channels to see what times and how much should be allowed daily, according to the ages and habits of every school child care is just like opening a porn magazine in home or bring children to a bar for adults.

The television never be in the strict sense of the education of women and men. It's always more to limit warp if their content is not discussed in families or is not limited to those who still, because of their age, are unable to analyze and choose with maturity.

As I said Maru, in another e-mail I received, a Mexican who lives in Italy, "the challenge of television is rediscovered, win back the hearts of viewers and through this, trace", to which only add: a footprint that always allows us to continue to enjoy television, without ever losing its sense of entertainment, even at the risk of distortion, as with the tasty foods you eat ... even though we know that we fatten.

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The Des Remote-control

By Alexis Nunez Oliva
Executive Producer of Television

When in 1893 the Serb Nikola Tesla developed the first remote control with patent filed, with the aim of controlling vehicles on the move, I could not believe after so many years that human beings depend on the remote control and can depend on your pillow, your partner's sentimental or some addiction.

Although in 1956 the first device that appeared to distance could change some channels timidly, and with a mechanical system that sounded outrageous, it was not until the late seventies when the remote control started to acquire the shape of a threat to the television and gave comfort to viewers, but allowed just go up and down the volume and change the channel to the next or previous.

Whenever we talk in the television industry point rating and share, almost never interact with the remote, small Pad with ever more options.

The remote control can be considered a real tyrant by those who produce television. It is the lethal weapon that shoot with viewers to take in less than a second, the decision to change the channel.

When the channels had to change them through a button that seemed to be a key gas cooker, spectators granted more time to programs, sometimes relying on a re interesting as the minutes passed.

Lifted the seat meant a physical effort when he had to do it several times and sometimes children became assistant to the parents say ... "change the channel?".

In those times the rates of obesity were lower (I do not believe that only by the exercise of changing channels) the pace of life was more tranquil, and diversity of television channels was small when compared with the hundreds of signals that almost anyone have in your house when you decide to sit down to watch TV.

And why do people change the channel? The issue is much deeper and involves several conditions that match, appealing for further comment on his scientific analysis.

Only the firing of a weapon is as fast as you change channels. It depends on a finger of a thought. Depends just to get bored without knowing that you are bored, and sometimes even an accident, when pressed a wrong button and arrive at a program that surprises us and makes us forget exactly who we're armed and still experience the adventure continuing search .

It is proven that women are conservative in using the remote control. Take longer to change a channel. The spirit of the mother has a patience that we see every day when they decide to do zapping.

The men, when they have a remote control in their hands, acting as in the west, between gunmen. Nothing stops. All of them are interested. Enloquecen betting on what follows. Are smoked with your fingers the buttons that move up and down the canals.

There is something more appealing on television for a man that the program is not watching at that time and he wants to come soon without knowing what or where it is.

Men suffering from zapping early, and result in women, when they see television as a couple, dissatisfaction and anxiety. Sometimes women get tired and leave ... for another TV installed somewhere in the home. Starts well infidelity of husbands and viewers each decides to entertain with different schedules.

Living in this modern assumed, households of any mortal have an invasion of remote controls. The stereo, DVD player, each more computers, engines, electric curtains, the air conditioners until the alarms of the cars was appropriated on the remote, to make life more enjoyable and somewhat sedentary, creating another kind of relationship between people and computers.

But no remote control creates emotional dependence that builds the remote control of television. His brief straying on the bed on the floor or on the couch, causing palpitations, anxiety, anger, guilt and responsibility.

At the same time, in this 21st century there is perhaps a more democratic tool that remote control, it allows the viewer to vote every second for the best program, choosing the most popular, and condemning the disappearance to the forgotten.

We know that the use of the remote control does not determine the quality and depth of content, and less scope, but who is allowed to each viewer vote for the most entertaining, showing their tastes and preferences without using the spoken word, without write their thoughts, without confessing to the priest.

Perhaps the day is not far when using a remote control can shut neighbor scandalous, or turn off the friend who never fails to criticize everything and who knows if we serve up to change government policy when we invade exactly out of control.

While this does not happen, people will continue to play to control the television, but the reality is almost always available to us television monitors, despite the distance.

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The Essential Television

By Alexis Núñez Oliva

Executive Producer of Television

Television remains the only member of the family that remains inside the home, without losing the affection, calling the meeting, motivating, so that time elapses entretenidamente.

Even in societies where the family has been fragmented, television still belongs to the core of confidence and highlighted as a being who speaks and moves, than a simple piece of furniture or electronic equipment.

It's hard to imagine someone who can live without television.

From soap operas to news and sports, we need all of it with the same force that we criticize. The love to the limit of odiarla.

The hate within the limits of love.

Those who work in television and viewers (we also remain hardened viewers) feel the same passion every day concerns and daybreak with illusions, but always with the certainty that at some stage of the day the television will allow us to a new meeting, with the risk that the following quote is an enigma.

The television is not a religion or a political affiliation, but collects, creating spaces (other destroys), becomes topic of conversation and participates in the lives of people with greater influence that schools and parents.

I do not know of another issue about which we know less each time, and on which all feel as if they knew more.

No one dares to question how a doctor explains the plight and solutions, but if an expert on their television sets criteria for a television program and its quality, feel with all the right not only to say, but to contradict and provide as suggested by the professional.

This only happens with television, because we have all the nearby live with it, we cry and we suffer, brings us joy and warns us, as never before, the last bomb that fell on the world or just a few seconds of calving again Multiple happened in a hospital in name unknown.

The television made the Earth smaller, more round and just calling it what we are not able at times to require governments nor to our family. We want to shout it silent, and that street who we are and hide.

On television is our universal language: us, betrays us, challenges us, we hope and we license to commit the seven deadly sins.

Despite the disputed views on the strength of the Internet and the use of cell phones, there's no risk, because television will remain this daily event attended by the same illusion of emotions that cause the early romances.

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