I have to agree with Grin and Roy. Ain't nobody gonna buy your ideas unless they're packaged with script treatments, show formats, budgets, experienced crew attached to the project, and quite possibly even a pilot episode(s).
We've pitched some ideas to cable networks and gotten as far as having executive producers assigned from TLC, but that project took us a year to develop and we had a 16 minute pilot that was basically a complete show missing one segment from our show format. Ended up we couldn't agree on what it would take budget wise to produce the shows and TLC was unwilling to partner in the production, only buy a complete season of episodes.
I know Grinner just recently sold an idea he wasn't even pitching! But only after years of pitching other ideas and making many contacts along the way. Not to mention accumulating years worth of samples to show he can actually get the work done.
Nobody here wants to dash your dreams. But you'll have a lot better chance of success if you know the obstacles up front, and go into pitches prepared. If you pitch ideas to networks or other producers and you don't have all the details thought out, they're not going to have much confidence the idea can get out of your head and onto a TV screen or website.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com
