Recognize the scripts that should become movies and stories that should become scripts to save heartache. Evaluate projects with the right pitch deck.
Get Ready to Pitch
Often, professionals focus on bridging the gap between writing a movie script and having it financed for production. Audience and intent affect the cinematic deck format. Packaging a mediocre story or financing a weak package can limit success.
- Story Discovery Deck
- Use this to evaluate whether a concept is worth pursuing.
- Focus on premise, characters, themes, expansion potential, audience, and comparable titles.
- Assumes no screenplay, director, cast, financing, or distribution is attached.
- This is where the ClinicalNovellas producer materials sit.
- Packaging Deck
- Create after a project is selected for development.
- May include screenplay status, producers, director attachments, talent targets, budget ranges, financing strategy, and market positioning.
- The intent is to attract partners, talent, and financiers.
- Investor/Financing Deck
- Primarily financial.
- Recoupment models, tax incentives, comparable grosses, waterfall structures, risk mitigation, insurance, sales estimates, and distribution plans.
- Often, what people mean when they say “investable.”
Many emerging creators are told their materials are incomplete because they’re being compared to a financing deck rather than a discovery deck. The result is that development stages become blurred together.
Every stage answers a different question:
| Stage | Primary Question |
|---|---|
| Story Discovery | Is this story worth developing? |
| Packaging | Can this project be assembled? |
| Financing | Can this project be funded? |
| Distribution | Can this project reach an audience? |
Many projects never reach packaging or financing. Asking every early-stage story to arrive with a director, cast, budget model, and distribution strategy is premature.
ClinicalNovellas are uniquely positioned in the discovery phase, providing immersive features and evaluative materials often introduced only after screenplay development begins. This allows executives to experience and assess stories before committing resources to scripting, packaging, or financing.
Stories available through Cinema Membership include discovery decks designed for producers and development executives to evaluate scriptability and cinematic expansion—not funding.
