This documentary pitch outlines the target audience, overall theme, length, distribution platform, research conducted, budget, and synopsis for a documentary. The target audience and theme will focus on a specific group and message. Research has been done to understand the subject area within any legal, ethical or representation constraints. Each segment of the documentary will advance the overall story and be tied together, with the full documentary planned to last a set length of time before being distributed on television, DVD, or the internet. A budget outlines how much producing the documentary will cost.

1. Documentary
Pitch
Hollie Payne

2. Target Audience
• Who is my target
audience?
• Why are they my target
audience?

3. Overall Theme
• What is the
underlying message
of my documentary?

4. How long will it last?
• Why will it last this
long?

5. Where will it been seen?
• Will it be seen on the
TV, on DVD or on the
internet?
• Why will it been seen on
this?

6. Research & Constraints
• What research have I
carried out to
understand the subject
area?
• Are there any
constraints? Legal,
Ethical or
Representation.

7. Cost
• How much is it
going to cost to
make?

8. Synopsis
• What is the overall
story?
• What happens in
each segment?
• How are the
segments tied
together?

9. Thank You!