Why are comparisons to other shows not allowed in the pitch?

Because they describe other people’s work and they make the poster and the drafts imitate it. Mood words say what your show feels like in your own terms, and they work better as prompts.

Is the public pitch page indexed?

Yes, once you set the pitch to public. Private pitches have no page. You can switch back to private at any time and the page stops resolving.

Can I pitch without a poster?

Yes. The poster is optional and costs three credits when you want one. The page shows a plain title card until then.

How many pitches can I keep?

Fifty per account, each with up to sixty episodes.

Who owns the pitches and posters I make here?

You do. Everything the service produces at your direction belongs to you under our terms of service, and you can publish it, sell it or keep it private. Because copyright is handled differently by each country, check with a lawyer in yours before signing anything that depends on ownership.

Show pitch generator

A pitch is the one page that sells a series before a frame exists. Show Creator builds that page: logline, tone, mood words instead of comparisons, audience, a rendered poster and a cast sheet with roles. Then it lets you shoot the pilot underneath it.

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Every episode, same five acts

Cold openAct oneAct twoAct threeTag

Twelve beats, one take each, four to fifteen seconds a take.

The shape of a pitch here

Every series on Show Creator begins as a pitch rather than an episode. The pitch card has a fixed set of fields: a title, a logline of a sentence or two, a tone line, up to six mood words, the audience you are writing for, an optional longer synopsis, a poster and a cast sheet. Nothing else. The constraint is the point: if a show cannot be explained in those fields, it is not ready to be shot.

You will notice there is no field for comparisons. Pitches that lean on “it is like that show meets that other show” describe someone else’s work. Mood words (“salt-stained”, “brisk”, “deadpan”, “velvet”) describe yours, and they feed straight into the poster prompt and the drafting model.

Poster and cast sheet

The poster is rendered from the title, logline, mood words and tone for three credits, in a 2:3 one-sheet ratio, with no text baked in so the title sits cleanly on the page. Add an art-direction note if you want a particular image (“the lighthouse at dawn, one figure on the gallery”). A new poster replaces the old one.

The cast sheet holds up to six people from the library, each with a role you type next to the name: the lead, the foil, the mentor, the one who knows. Roles travel with the names into every draft, so the model writes the mentor as a mentor. The same cast sheet is the picker on the take desk when you shoot.

Title and logline (one or two sentences).
Tone line and up to six mood words.
Target audience in a phrase.
Poster in 2:3, three credits, no baked-in text.
Cast sheet of up to six with roles.

The public pitch page

Switch a pitch to public and it gets a page at /pitch/your-slug: the poster, the logline, the mood words, the audience line, the cast sheet with portraits, the five-act structure with your beat headings once they exist, and the finished pilot playing at the top once it is cut. It is the page you send instead of a deck.

Everything on it is yours to change. Edit the logline and the page updates; cut a better pilot and the new file replaces the old one. The series page at /series/your-slug lists every public episode in order with the pilot first.

From pitch to pilot

The pitch and the pilot share one room. Below the pitch card sits the act sheet for episode one. Draft it for two credits and the model reads the pitch fields and the cast sheet before writing a beat. Render takes, cut the pilot, and the pitch page is finished: a one-sheet with a proof of concept playing on it.

Sample takes

Rendered from beats like yours

Open the showcase

A bright development office at midday. Thea, early 30s, dark hair cut to the jaw, uncaps a marker at a whiteboard covered in a series arc and tells the room, "We have one afternoon to make them say yes." Coffee cups, a long oak table.

A late-night radio station lobby, the ON AIR lamp glowing red. Jericho, late 40s with a grey goatee, holds the studio door half open and says into the dark, "If you are listening, I know it was you." He lets the door close.

A cramped thrift-store stockroom under a bare bulb. Esme, mid 30s with a blunt black bob, pulls a hand-drawn storyboard flipbook from a coat pocket on the rack and whispers, "This is the pilot. He never lost it."

Dawn on the iron gallery deck of a lighthouse. Dagny, a weathered woman in her 60s in a navy duffel coat, lowers a pair of binoculars and says quietly, "That boat was not there last night." Gulls wheel; the sea is grey.

Questions

Why are comparisons to other shows not allowed in the pitch?: Because they describe other people’s work and they make the poster and the drafts imitate it. Mood words say what your show feels like in your own terms, and they work better as prompts.
Is the public pitch page indexed?: Yes, once you set the pitch to public. Private pitches have no page. You can switch back to private at any time and the page stops resolving.
Can I pitch without a poster?: Yes. The poster is optional and costs three credits when you want one. The page shows a plain title card until then.
How many pitches can I keep?: Fifty per account, each with up to sixty episodes.
Who owns the pitches and posters I make here?: You do. Everything the service produces at your direction belongs to you under our terms of service, and you can publish it, sell it or keep it private. Because copyright is handled differently by each country, check with a lawyer in yours before signing anything that depends on ownership. Read the terms of service.

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