The Jess Harnell ideas are great! I would love to watch a sitcom that takes place at an animation studio. Either modern day, Indy, or 1940s. I like watching actual animators on youtube so seeing the animators, directors, voice actors and producers all as characters making a show would be funny. Either a studio sitcom or a mock documentary style like the Office.
That was pretty much the idea. I think it had potential. The closest thing I can think of was a short lived Bob Newhart series called “Bob” where he was a comic artist, it no one must have cared because by season 2 they made him a greeting card illustrator before canceling it.
I can see where making a pitch bible would be good for the creator as well. Help to constrain the ideas and get them more focused. I wish I knew about this when I tried making a comic strip many many years ago.
The pitch bible makes sense. Piggybacking a little from last week, I came up with another pitch variant I wanted to run by you. "In an age before the dawn of womankind, raised to be a princess, she wore a hooded cloak of crimson, werewolf howls in the pale moon light. You think you know the trope. But before Leia, before Lois, before Sleeping Beauty, and before… Carmilla, there was another. The fable they locked away. Was the first damsel in distress pure, or was she pure evil…" What do you think?
It’s intriguing. I would tighten it up a little more. Lose “in an age” start with “before the dawn…” I don’t care for the word “trope” in this instance I would use “story” or “tale”. It’s getting there.
Hey Scott, I was wondering if the pitch bible has to be for a finished project? I've seen this used for novels called a series bible. Has a similar idea, just for novels in the fantasy and sci-fi genres.
Typically pitch bibles are used for a property that needs funding or the green light to help fully produce a story or concept that is already fleshed out. Like an animated series, the concept is ready however a studio will likely want to further develop it and make changes, So in answer to your question no it doesn’t have to be fully finished.
@@ScottSerkland I'll keep that in mind, I might do an updated version and add some extra pages with strips or excerpts from past comics. I probably got the file folder idea from the pitch episode of Making Comics 101, I also saw that idea in a Free Comic Book Day comic around that time. I only steal from the best!
