PITCHING your proposed coursework track

Former Pres. Bush, son of a pitch... Aiming right I see

IN THIS POST:
Updated May 2015.

• KEY ELEMENTS OF A GOOD PITCH
• DURATION AND DELIVERY/FORMAT
• PAST EXAMPLES OF PITCH VIDEOS
• LIST OF POINTS TO ADDRESS
• TREATMENTS + OTHER FRAMEWORKS FOR INITIAL NOTES
• CROWDFUNDING PITCHES

You'll find there are multiple guides to pitching on this blog and other DB blogs. I'm aiming to make this a straightforward but comprehensive guide.

A2 pitch preparation from DB3igs

GENDER (w)rapper in a dress: pop gets queered

There's nothing new in rock and pop stars transgressing and undermining normative gender expectations: David Bowie, Iggy Pop, all those 60s 'longhairs', Janis Joplin, Marilyn Manson, Perry Farrell, Boy George, Little Richard, Annie Lennox...

Nonetheless, in an era when a bearded woman won Eurovision, Judith Butler's provocative pronouncement that gender is a fiction we learn to act out has clearly won some high profile fans.

We need to be careful when judging representations: Miley Cyrus would mock a feminist male gaze reading of her controversial act, rejecting sexual and gender labels which underpin this.

...Which doesn't necessarily make her right, and Sinead O'Connor (who wrote am open letter to Cyrus on exploitation by male record label bosses) wrong. Without denying Cyrus agency, as Stuart Hall would argue, your response (or reading) will be partly guided by your own subjectivity, background, identity

Female fury and a gangster in a dress: meet the pop stars toppling gender stereotypes http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/13/sex-pop-gender-stereotypes-young-thug-tove-lo-mykki-blanco-deap-vally?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

SPOTIFY Fans plan 400m streams to pay Nelly $2m tax

Personally I wouldn't fancy hearing it once, but fans of the nose-adorned rapper are pledging to try and play just one of his tracks 400m times to pay his $2.3m tax bill.

So, Nelly takes money out of your pocket twice over - smooth work.

A single fan could achieve the same outcome by streaming in constant repeat for 2076 years...great figures for bringing the streaming debate to life...

And how many times is that? Somewhere between 280m and 403m.

That’s quite a lot of Nelly. Yes it is. Indeed, it was calculated that if one person were to pay off Nelly’s tax debt by themselves, simply by streaming Hot In Herre over and over again and accumulating the microscopic royalty that goes with each stream, it would take 2,076 years to settle the debt.

Nelly fans hope to pay his taxes – by repeatedly playing Hot In Herre on Spotify http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2016/sep/14/nelly-fans-hope-to-pay-his-taxes-play-hot-in-herre-on-spotify-savenelly?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

AUDIENCE Radio Gaga fans fake mum profiles

Lady Gaga fans pose as soccer moms to drum up radio buzz for new single http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/07/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-new-single-fake-twitter-fans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger