DEVELOPMENT SIZZLES ARE NOW A KEY TOOL IN SELLING TV IDEAS
Whether you're producing drama, unscripted formats or premium documentaries, the rip-o-matic development sizzle has become a crucial way to get your idea noticed. I've spent 5 years exclusively honing the dark art of the development sizzle. Across the genres. From high-end docs to formats to drama. Using found footage and creating high-end graphics, I make an idea look like it already exists. And it looks epic.
3 people, rolled into 1 people.
development exec , editor and expert clip-ripper.
at your service.
Mr. Rip-o-matic is me, Spencer Austin - a Development Exec with 20 years of experience in the TV biz. I have created and produced shows internationally - from prime time entertainment to sports to an award winning documentary. For networks like ITV1, C4, Fox Sports Asia, MTV and from the UK to the U.S. to Canada to Australia and Singapore. From hands-on production to devising formats to international format producing. For the last 5 years, I've been using my years of programme-making know-how to produce specifically short-form development sizzles. This is now all I do, and I love it.
A UNIQUE BUSINESS MODEL
We all have our favourite editors, but often they're incredible longform masters who struggle with making punchy promos and the shiny graphics that go with it. Some task junior editors with development sizzles to save money. But with huge commissions on the line, why compromise on your company/department's development slate? I am dedicated to this medium. I can tailor any genre to make it look like a trailer on Netflix (or whomever you're aimed at) just dropped. I understand what the networks want - because I've done the pitch meetings and all that development slog - and I can make your idea not only fit, but smash it with movie trailer impact.
Crucially - I offer an all-in price that includes as many changes as required to get the sizzle signed off.* No day rates here. This means you don't have to worry about extra days hiring a suite and editor or a producer to sit with them. Even for internal costs, this can spiral. I want this to work as much as you do.
I can work with as much or as little guidance as you wish. Some give me a card or voiceover script, others just give me a book that they've optioned. Working remotely and with minimal overheads, a payment-per-job basis works out deliciously economical for everyone, and we can work together to get just the right sizzle finished far faster and shinier than most in-house set-ups.
Why not get in touch now to discuss your next big commission?
Crucially - I offer an all-in price that includes as many changes as required to get the sizzle signed off.* No day rates here. This means you don't have to worry about extra days hiring a suite and editor or a producer to sit with them. Even for internal costs, this can spiral. I want this to work as much as you do.
I can work with as much or as little guidance as you wish. Some give me a card or voiceover script, others just give me a book that they've optioned. Working remotely and with minimal overheads, a payment-per-job basis works out deliciously economical for everyone, and we can work together to get just the right sizzle finished far faster and shinier than most in-house set-ups.
Why not get in touch now to discuss your next big commission?
SOME OF THE COMPANIES SPENCER HAS WORKED WITH:
*It's sometimes neccessary to limit the layers of editorial input to prevent a sizzle being passed around a hundred people and all of them making their own changes...but that's usually an easy discussion.