It kind of depends. If you’re writing a serialized story, I’d suggest writing out season arcs for the characters and putting that in your pitch document / pitch bible. You can do it as episode summaries, but often it works better to do arcs for each character and/or each plotline. If you’re writing closed-ended episodes, you definitely want to write short descriptions of future episodes for your pitch. But in particular in the case of a procedural, a second script can be very helpful to cement how the show will work structurally, how you see the balance of “case” vs. “character”, and that the show really has future cases in it that you know how to flesh out.
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I recommend a good pilot episode and a show bible outlining your first season episodes. There are plenty of bible examples available online.
thanks
How many episodes in a season?
13
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So basically the summaries for few episodes will go into the series bible then? The Silvers Brothers
Yeah that's how I do it. Good luck!
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It kind of depends. If you’re writing a serialized story, I’d suggest writing out season arcs for the characters and putting that in your pitch document / pitch bible. You can do it as episode summaries, but often it works better to do arcs for each character and/or each plotline. If you’re writing closed-ended episodes, you definitely want to write short descriptions of future episodes for your pitch. But in particular in the case of a procedural, a second script can be very helpful to cement how the show will work structurally, how you see the balance of “case” vs. “character”, and that the show really has future cases in it that you know how to flesh out.
Thank you Anna Marton Henry