#17 - Interview with Actor & Filmmaker Adam Sinclair, Part 2

Welcome to Pitch, connecting storytellers with the world. For today's episode, we're gonna finish our chat with our friend Adam Sinclair. Adam is an actor who has appeared on the TV shows Rosolian Isles and 24 amongst many others. He's opened a flight school in the past few years and has recently been developing a program to help train people from historically underprivileged communities how to fly. He's been shopping this program as a television series that follows people from having absolutely zero experience in a cockpit, all the way to becoming certified airline pilots. We pick up where we left off last episode with Adam giving his thoughts on exactly where a pitch needs to be by the time you sit down with the decision makers. Let's jump right in. By the time you're sitting in front of somebody who's gonna write a check, it has to be so fucking lean. Mhmm. Like, just lean. Just like it's like a laser of an idea. What define lean for your project. What are your three bullet points for this pitch? When that person has the time. Okay. This okay. So we can I mean, I'll I'll talk about generally for both Yes? For both drama and docuseries or documentary or reality, whatever you want. Reality has a bit of a tarnished tying to it, but you know what I mean. Yeah. Decide your narrative. So So is your narrative the story or is it the person? Or the character's character driven? Once you decide that, push into that. That's If it's about a place, then you need to explore that place. It's pushing to that. That's the bit you're gonna spend the most amount of time on. The statistics backing up to get to them and why you wanna follow these people or follow that place. They're one sentence bullet points. It's like it's like what I said, what was that I say in Australia? 3.2% world's pilots are African American. 3.4% of world's pilots are women. That was my opening. That was it. Just the statistics. Those two statistics. And that and that's what and then the Martin Luther King quote right after that. And that was it. Boom boom boom boom boom boom. They were in. They were bought. Yeah. We know where we're going. I bought them. With that stuff. I bought them. And then when I did my character base, my pilots are gonna be the trainees. It was made up. So I was kinda going in the heartstrings and that sort of sort of things. And But we will be looking for people in genuine situations who do need to break. But, yeah. And as I said, basically, my whole end to the whole thing was two statistics. That's amazing. So simplicity. That's lean. Those are powerful statistics. I think when your story leans towards something that has that massive backing to it, it does kind of sell itself. It sells that sells itself because …