What to wear to pitch meeting?
Lukememi
somebody please tell me if there are certain dress codes one must follow, like
that of a professional interview or is it a come as you are kinda thing?
Thanks.
LM
potato
Skip Press
luke...@aol.com (Lukememi) wrote:
I always walk in eating a burrito and smoking a cigar.
I dress any old way (ask people who know me) but to pitch meetings I
bring naked pictures of myself, which I pass around. I start the pitch
by telling them that if they don't buy the pitch, I'm taking off the
clothes.
--
What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I am dissatisfied with.
-- Cecil B. De Mille, returning a writer's script.
All the best,
Skip Press, the Duke of URL
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trajan
I was told at a writer's seminar at FADE IN: Magazine to "look
like a writer." When pressed, speaker Allen Ury said: no suits.
Jeans, sneakers, and sport coat were fine. (Assuming you're
male.)
(But don't do this and blame me if you don't get the job.)
Regards,
Trajan
Thomas L. C.
been offered on the matter:)
"There are uniforms here, but they tend to be segregated by profession and
change on an annual basis... The best way to know how you should dress is to
see how your competition is dressing. Try to blend in. You never want to
be mistaken for something you're not.
"For Example, one screenwriter we know - having just recently transplanted
himself from the midwest - arrived at his first big studio meeting dressed
in a three-piece suit. To the outside world, that was the standard uniform
of anyone going to a business meeting. However, upon his arrival, he was
immediately mistaken for a studio executive and undoubtedly laughed at upon
his exit from the exec's office. After that, he had a hard time convincing
anyone that he actually had an original or creative idea in his head. It
wasn't until he learned to dress in jeans, a long-sleeved cotton shirt,
running shoes, and a team jacket that people began to actually treat him
like a writer.
"As a creative type you should always wear one - and often only one -
expensive piece of clothing at a studio meeting. For example, jeans, a
black t-shirt, black converse sneakers and a $500 blazer are a classic male
filmmaker's ensemble. And Black is the color of choice in Hollywood, so
make sure you own lots of it.
"Of course, none of this artifice is any substitute for talent. But no
one's going to discover your talent if your image repels or confuses them."
--
Thomas L. C.
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"Lukememi" <luke...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Martin Kunert
Be neat and casual. No ties.
Rebecca
>male.)
Okay? What about chicks?
I've got a sale under my belt now. Say I'll progress, hopefully, and get to do
these pitch meetings.
If I show up wearing a stylish black blouse, black leather skirt, and awesome
black heels are they gonna say, "nice writer?"
:-)
What about us chicks? Huh?
~Rebecca
MC
Leather jacket. Jeans. White shirt. (Or was that last year?) -- in any
event, the *uniform* is pretty casual. Just so long as it looks clean.
They expect writers to be less formal, but you don't want to gross them
out.
Yet.
Maj. Bushteaser
--
Steve Richer
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sricher/home.htm
PhD in Depravity
"Rebecca" <lionjul...@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
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Harb7707
>> If I show up wearing a stylish black blouse, black leather skirt, and
>awesome
>> black heels are they gonna say, "nice writer?"
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> What about us chicks? Huh?
You certainly have an eye-opening coming your way.
In the meantime, I suggest you wear sensible shoes.
Harb