Life's a Pitch Briefing

Working in teams to produce ideas or concepts for an event, exhibition or creative opportunity (event with talks, meet up, podcast, reading group, walking tour, workshop, film screening, pop up, project room) in Leeds.
- The event you intend to pitch should be innovative address a local and wider creative community.

Need to prepare and deliver a 10 minute pitch presentation to an audience (what is the appropriate way to communicate the event through the pitch).
How you present your ideas should excite and engage the audience.
Pitches will be judged and successful ones will be taken forward to be developed by the whole year (budget will be supported by uni).
The pitch should consider:
- budget
- venue
- location
- logistics
- materials
- technology
- branding
- marketing
- a strong rationale for your ideas
Communication to the audience as well as to each other is key, needing to create a convincing pitch.
Demonstrate how you can make Leeds an exciting place to be for creatives.
Keep it realistic.

Deliverables:
> Pitch presentation presented by whole group
> Pitch uploaded to blog
> Design boards (done as a team) uploaded to estudio
> Blog - personal contribution to the project

SUBMISSION 10th MARCH

4th Feb - Visiting Professional Joe Gilmore / qubik 10am
11 Feb - SB2 Development & Planning your idea/event
18 Feb - SB2 Elevator Pitches and development
25 Feb - SB2 Final Pitches 1-3:30
3 Mar - Pre-submission Briefing
10 Mar - Submission Deadline
16&17 Mar - Assessed Presentations

What could we do to benefit Leeds' creative environment?
What is missing in Leeds?
> Cheaper opportunities
> Lack of workshops in Leeds
> Skill swap/knowledge - free resource
> Low pressure creative events
> Accessible community space, 8p per hour with facilities there, duke studios? With workshops on a specific day? Pay and display.
> Rapid fire workshops (subscription based) basic supplies, paint, pens, paper develop a quick portfolio
> Process based, not focusing on the outcome
> Creative get together for uni students
> Secret graphics club, skill/resource share
> A way to tie to local community to students
> Low stress and low budget creative events

Creative Space in Leeds
made by today
- contact her with an idea for a space wanting it to be used as a studio space for creatives as well as herself, people would pay to use the space daily or hourly etc.

Wanting to have a space for creatives in Leeds, wanting to make a community of creative people within Leeds.

Spoken to Searlait at made by today and she said she'd be interested in talking more about the idea, and potentially using her studio space as a pop up.

Thinking of developing something along the lines of Ziferblat in Manchester that Peggy went to, where you pay 8p per minute per person to be in the cafe, everything else is free. Thinking about developing this idea, translating it to a studio space rather than a cafe, allowing people to avoid committing to a 6 month rent contract etc.