Pitching Crash Course with Alizée Musson

An overview of pitching and how to approach writing pitching documents.

Content: This session will cover verbal vs. written pitches with examples from recent pitching forums and different techniques to get over stage fright; loglines vs. taglines, writing synopses, treatments, and pitch decks. Participants will have the opportunity to start writing their own pitching documents (a logline, a tagline, a synopsis, and a verbal pitch structure) for a project of their choice. The aim is for them to have a first draft of each document by the end of the session.

About the tutor:

Alizée Musson is a script & development consultant, and writer. Working internationally in French and English, she develops films and TV projects with emerging and established talents in live-action and animation. She previously worked with Entertainment One, Amazon Studio, Ubisoft, and Walt Disney as a freelancer. An alumna of the MIDPOINT Feature Launch and the TorinoFilmLab Extended script consulting labs, she also mentors writers through writing international labs for organisations such as IFFR, Screen Yorkshire and Screen Ireland. In 2026, she will publish her first book on "The Art of Writing for Animation".

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