The role of vision and sound in broadcast pitching
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A broadcast producer thinks in pictures and sound before they think in words. A story that reads well on paper can still be rejected for television or radio if it offers nothing visually or audibly distinctive, because the format demands more than a compelling argument.
Pitching for broadcast means describing what a camera would actually see and what a microphone would actually capture, not just summarising the news value of the story. A vague promise of good vision is far less persuasive than a specific description of a moment, a location or a sound that carries the story on its own.
This is why broadcast pitches so often fail when they are simply adapted print pitches with a shorter word count. The medium rewards a different kind of thinking, one that starts with what can be shown and heard, treating the written explanation as support rather than the main event.