Introduction to Canva: How to Build a Pitch Deck

 Learn design secrets from a former Google, Uber, and Verizon web designer turned filmmaker and pitch deck expert!

Get a Pitch Deck Font Guide and live Q&A with Bri to help you build a deck that looks industry-ready!

Your pitch deck might be the only shot you get to make a first impression—and right now, it's competing with hundreds of others for a producer's attention. In an industry where buyers, investors, and collaborators are scanning decks in minutes (sometimes seconds), how your project looks can matter just as much as what it says. A beautifully designed deck signals that you're professional, prepared, and serious about your project before anyone reads a single word of your logline. If your deck isn't pulling its weight visually, you could be losing opportunities before you ever get in the room.

If you've ever stared at a blank Canva template wondering where to even start, you're not alone. For most filmmakers, the hardest part of building a pitch deck isn't figuring out what to include—it's making that information look cohesive, polished, and intentional. You might find yourself second-guessing font choices, wrestling with image placement, or ending up with a deck that feels cluttered instead of clean. The good news? You don't need years of design training to fix this. With a handful of practical principles, you can transform your deck from "homemade" to industry-ready.

You'll be learning directly from Bri Kaisen, someone who genuinely lives at the intersection of design and storytelling. As Associate Creative Producer at Life Out Loud Films, Bri designs filmmaker pitch decks every day alongside producer Sara Elizabeth Timmins, helping indie projects get packaged and positioned for real buyers. Before that, she spent years as a web designer and developer building large-scale digital experiences for brands like Google, Uber, and Verizon—so she knows exactly how strategic design builds trust and guides an audience. Add in her MFA in Screenwriting from Hollins University, and you get an instructor who understands your project as a story first and a visual product second.

In this webinar, you'll walk through the exact design fundamentals that separate amateur decks from professional ones—contrast, layout, white space, and visual hierarchy—along with how to choose images and build a visual brand that captures your film's tone from cover to close. You'll also get practical, inside-Canva techniques for fonts, color, and layout, plus guidance on exporting and presenting your deck like a pro. By the end, you'll walk away with the confidence and the concrete tools to build a pitch deck that looks like it came from a design studio—and a font guide handout to keep those skills close at hand.

PLUS! You will receive this handout to help you:

• Pitch Deck Font Guide