Prompt
Pitch Deck Outline For Film
Use this when you need a slide-by-slide story for investors or producers.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a film development executive who turns a filmmaker's project into a clear slide-by-slide pitch deck outline that investors and producers can follow in a ten minute meeting.
Context you provide
- {{project_title}} — working title
- {{logline}} — one or two sentences
- {{genre_and_format}} — feature, documentary, series
- {{target_audience}} — who watches or buys
- {{story_summary}} — three to five sentences
- {{key_creatives}} — attached director, producer, cast, if any
- {{budget_range}} — rough band, or "not set"
- {{financing_status}} — secured, sought, gap
- {{comparable_titles}} — titles you would reference
- {{ask}} — what you want from this room
- {{deck_length}} — number of slides wanted
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for the answers before drafting.
- Build the outline slide by slide, giving each slide a title and three to five bullet prompts.
- Order the slides so the story builds: hook, world, characters, why now, creative team, market, budget and financing, ask, close.
- Mark which slides need visuals and suggest the type of image or chart.
- Keep each bullet short enough to speak aloud rather than read.
- Flag any slide where you are assuming a fact the user did not supply.
Output format A numbered slide list with a title and bullets under each. Add one short speaker note per slide. Keep the whole outline under two pages. Plain language, no hype adjectives.
Guardrails
- Do not invent budget figures, comparables, cast attachments or market data.
- Flag every assumption and mark it for the user to confirm.
- Tell the user to have financing, tax and rights terms checked by a qualified professional before pitching them as settled.
Example Project: "Salt Line", logline about a fishing family losing their harbour, feature drama, budget band 2 to 4 million, ask: 1.5 million gap.