Text and photo software for pitches

[Michael Coffee]

Hi everyone, does anybody know of a good/easy to use software for making music video pitches like these ones?

http://djbooth.net/news/entry/how-a-music-video-made-treatment-rapsody

http://www.slideshare.net/Maah246/music-video-treatment-15425578

Something where its easy to resize and place photos etc, and simple enough to use without having to feel like a pro graphic designer? Drag and drop, or easy to use templates?

Regards,

Michael

 

[kaylee]

are you using a mac or a pc? ipad/tablet? you prolly already have software thatll work fine, not quite as simple as drag and drop, although Pages on a mac is pretty close

anyway, this stuff is super simple. i bet if you tried using ~any~ word processing app you could do this just fine... its just some text and photos! dont be intimidated i promise its super simple

 

[Michael Coffee]

Thanks Kaylee - I might pages - have a pc desktop and a mac laptop.. I will keep trying! Cheers

 

[The Chris]

There is storyboard specific software, but as mentioned pages or word works fine. You could create a custom template (or just modify an existing one) with photo and text boxes, so when you drag images they resize to fit the box automatically.

Edit - a quick google search shows others have already done the work, find your favorite and bust a move.

 

[dahlfors]

If you have Mac, I'd recommend Keynote. Then you can run it both as a presentation - as well as export to PDF for digital delivery.

[Michael Coffee]

Getting there with ms word - thanks for the suggestions! I bet after messing around for hours on the pc with word, it will take about 5 minutes on the mac

 

[dahlfors]

1 minute ago, Michael Coffee said:

Getting there with ms word - thanks for the suggestions! I bet after messing around for hours on the pc with word, it will take about 5 minutes on the mac

As a designer, I've actually been surprised quite a few times by non-techy creatives and business people making really good looking stuff - and quickly - with Keynote. It's excellent for presentations and presenting ideas.

[Michael Coffee]

Hey thanks Dahlfors, it took literally 1 minute to get Keynote to do exactly what I wanted! Cheers!

[Zak Forsman]

I usually build stuff like this in Photoshop. This is not a music video pitch but it follows a similar layout. It's the 2-page "sell sheet" I made that was used to pitch Down and Dangerous (my microbudget crime drama) to cable and satellite VOD providers across the US & Canada, as well as, Paramount Pictures for international distribution. Fortunately, we happened to have the type of movie they were looking for, but I'm sure this didn't hurt. Anyway... I find Photoshop makes this sort of thing pretty easy to create, and revise, and revise, and revise...

[Jonesy Jones]

One more to add to the list..... Keynote. Obviously you need a Mac, but I prefer this to most of the others just because of speed. Super easy to move things around, resize, image adjustments, text, etc. and you can export as a pdf at whatever page size you want.