{"id":1586,"date":"2008-07-28T01:19:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T05:19:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-28T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:30:39","slug":"turning-tricks-the-black-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/turning-tricks-the-black-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Pitch: The Black Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYou ever see any of the Matt Helm<\/ins><\/strong> movies? It occurred to me the other day how perfectly simple the Hollywood pitch was for these films: “What if Dean Martin was James Bond?”<\/em> Let’s make a picture!<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a Hollywood pitch, it’s simple: Describe your project in the most succinct and appealing way possible. One trick is to reference previous well known successes.<\/p>\n

There are some examples in here:<\/p>\n

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Following are a few tracks from a band called The Black Angels<\/ins><\/strong>. If you were their manager and had to sell them with only words what would your pitch be?<\/p>\n

Young Men Dead<\/a>
\nBlack Grease<\/a>
\nManipulation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QQnQ8xX3-k8] You ever see any of the Matt Helm movies? It occurred to me the other day how perfectly simple the Hollywood pitch was for these films: “What if Dean Martin was James Bond?” Let’s make a picture! If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a Hollywood pitch, it’s simple: Describe your project in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}