RB's Stage 32 News, Notes, Discussions and Other Fun Stuff (July 15, 2016)

 STAGE 32 NEWS

Screenwriters: Leave Your Mistrust at the Door -While most emerging writers who do their research and keep a level head come to screenwriting with a clear understanding of how the industry works, it does happen that a new writer will arrive on the scene, with his or her mistrust put broadly - if not proudly - on display. After all, there have been stories (rare but memorable) of screenplays being stolen (as well as story credit and payment being withheld and consequently and successfully sued for), screenwriters seeing their original idea suddenly fully realized and up in lights, or screenwriters being pushed out of a project that was once originally theirs. Click here to find the forms of Mistrust that are out there…

On Stage With RB (June 2016) is Now Available To Watch On-Demand! - The June 2016 On Stage With RB was one for the record books! RB spent 3 hours with the Stage 32 community and had on 2 special guests, first up was Development Executive Tiegen Kosiak (formerly of Zoe Saldana's production company, CineStar Pictures). The second special guest was Zahida Kazar, an Operations Coordinator with independent film distributor, Gravitas Ventures. Click Here to Watch It Now!

What Do Weinstein, Disney & 'Spotlight' Have in Common? - Hey guys. One of the things I love most about overseeing Stage 32's Next Level Education is getting to find some really great instructors for you. This week is no exception. I've brought in Holly Brown, Steve Desmond, and, James Kicklighter find out who these amazing teachers are and what you will receive for free by joining this webinar. 

STAGE 32 EDUCATION

Intro To Using Social Media for Your Low to No Budget Film (July 19) Jennifer Winberg - Social Media Executive

Jennifer has over 10 years of branding and entertainment experience in digital strategy, social media, and integrated marketing. Recently, she launched the Digital Marketing Team for the Day and Date Film Division - Lionsgate Premiere. Jennifer will teach you how to create a social media campaign that is right for your film. She'll outline a social media timeline for your film, when to start social media for your film and how to utilize interns to maintain your social media. You'll walk away knowing how to build a successful social media campaign including best tactics, tools and resources. If you are a new Filmmaker, Student Filmmaker, Producer, Small Budget Filmmaker or Interested in Film Digital Marketing this class is for you. Click here to sign up now!

Constructing Your Screenwriting Career: A Breakdown Of Breaking In (July 20) Lee Jessup - Script Consultant

Script Consultant, Lee Jessup is a career coach for professional and emerging screenwriters, with an exclusive focus on the screenwriter's professional development. Most screenwriters who have been at it for any length of time know the mechanics of writing a screenplay. But not everyone knows the specific steps one must take to go from screenwriter hitting the keys in off hours to become a working screenwriter working within the industry structure. Utilizing knowledge gathered over years in the industry working both in development and directly with emerging and professional writing clients, as well as insights from countless industry sources, during this 3-week session we will set correct expectations for the construction of a screenwriting career, and identify the various paths and opportunities available to writers eager to break into film or television. To register for this three week class, click here!

Strengthen Your Supporting Characters & Subplot (July 21) Jordan Barel - Producer

In this Stage 32 Next Level Webinar, Jordan Barel (Development, for Producer/Actor Paul Scheer and Abominable Pictures) will teach how to bring your supporting characters to life. You will learn how to create characters that are integral to the main plot and the shape of your screenplay. He will walk you through using your support characters to subtly deliver key exposition and give insight into your protagonist. In addition, Jordan will show you how to use your subplots to strengthen your second act and keep the action moving along. You'll break down various film genres to show how each utilizes supporting characters and subplots so you can apply it to your projects. You will walk away with the tools necessary to deliver a fully developed script! Click here to register!

HAPPY WRITERS PITCH SESSIONS

 July 16th

1st ever monthly Stage 32 Happy Writer's Meet Up! We are excited to announce the first monthly Stage 32 Happy Writer's meetup! Swing by and meet Stage 32 team members Erik and Matt, as well as your fellow writers!! Come have fun, be social and meet some great people! Bring your business card to enter into our raffle for a chance to win a FREE set of Development Notes or a script read + 30 minute call with the executive of your choice! Click here to register and get more information!

And...

2nd Annual Stage 32 Short Film Contest We are proud to open up our call for entries for the 2nd Annual Stage 32 Short Film Contest! Last year's inaugural contest produced entries from Stage 32 members in 29 countries and resulted in a curated program of 6 incredible and well received short films (made by filmmakers from 4 countries). The Stage 32 Short Film Program screened theatrically at the 2015 Raindance Film Festival to critical acclaim from Variety and Indiewire. The program also screened to the Stage 32 community and was exposed to over 500 working industry executives who had the opportunity to connect with any of the winning filmmakers. To read about this contest and register before the Wednesday, Jul 20 Deadline Click here! Early Bird Deadline!!! Deadline: Wednesday, Jul 20 - 11:59 PM PDT 

 STAGE 32 SUCCESS STORIES

Screenwriter hired through Stage 32 Jobs

Makeup Artist hired through Stage 32 Jobs

Director hired through Stage 32 Jobs

Screenwriter hired through Stage 32 Jobs

Actor hired through Stage 32 Jobs

Musician hired through Stage 32 Jobs

My latest script made the finals!

Script Supervisor hired through Stage 32 Jobs

RB and Stage 32 changed my life!

STAGE 32 MEETUPS 

• Woodbury, New Jersey
• Los Angeles, California
• Berlin, Germany
• Los Angeles, California
• Toronto, Canada
• Santa Clarita, California
• Los Angeles, California
• Los Angeles, California
• Safety Harbor, Florida
• San Francisco, California
• Brooklyn, New York

 POPULAR AND INTERESTING LOUNGE DISCUSSIONS

• ACTING: Help for freshman :)
• ACTING: What's the best question you've ever been asked at a Table Read?
• ACTING: Marketing
• ACTING: Am I doing enough!
• ACTING: Audition Attire
• ACTING: Actors in Europe
• ACTING: Homicidal Heist
• ANIMATION: The Present (A Student Short)
• ANIMATION: Animated Features
• ANIMATION: Advice for making animated short
• ANIMATION: Great side by side of the process.
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: Question about point of view in young adult novels
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: What grade level do you write at? It Matters...
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: What are some sites that can link freelance writers to writing opportunities?
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: Getting That Old Feeling Back
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: There's no Virgin Birth narrative in the earliest Greek manuscripts of the New Testament!
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: Actors Equity Fiasco--Playwrights should know about this
• AUTHORING & PLAYWRITING: Writing a fictional technical manual
• CINEMATOGRAPHY: LED Lighting
• CINEMATOGRAPHY: Shout Out!!
• CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sunset lighting
• CINEMATOGRAPHY: If it puts out a clean image, does it matter what camera you use?
• CINEMATOGRAPHY: Legendary Cinematographers share their personal perspectives on what they do and what it means to them.
• COMPOSING: Does anyone know what is the frequency of audio for film?
• COMPOSING: Music Libraries/Licensing
• COMPOSING: Composer pay
• COMPOSING: General Question
• COMPOSING: Digital vs. Real?
• COMPOSING: Understanding Streaming Music Income
• COMPOSING: Composition training
• DEVELOPMENT: Free movie budgeting software
• DISTRIBUTION: What's the future of indie distribution?
• DISTRIBUTION: Sundance hit INDIE GAME's case study on crowdfunding and self-distribution
• DISTRIBUTION: Shorts TV vs. Festivals
• DISTRIBUTION: Question about talking to Media or Film Buyers
• DISTRIBUTION: Has distribution changed?
• FILMMAKING / DIRECTING: Practical FX vs Visual FX
• FILMMAKING / DIRECTING: Copyright laws...
• FILMMAKING / DIRECTING: Canadian/UK films/tv
• FILMMAKING / DIRECTING: How do you decide which props are "'important" in your film?
• FILMMAKING / DIRECTING: The Key to Filmmaking & Artistic Success: Become a Craftsman
• FINANCING / CROWDFUNDING: Advice on funding?
• FINANCING / CROWDFUNDING: The #1 Reason Why Crowdfunding Campaigns Fail
• FINANCING / CROWDFUNDING: Summer 2016 Grants for Filmmakers
• FINANCING / CROWDFUNDING: Confused
• FINANCING / CROWDFUNDING: What?
• ON SET CREW: Learning quick because playback is a bitch
• ON SET CREW: Looking for contact with a 2nd AC in Hollywood
• ON SET CREW: Set Design / Construction for Theater
• ON SET CREW: Is this a scam?
• POST-PRODUCTION: Anybody have tips using Avid?
• POST-PRODUCTION: Anyone here use ready-made production music in the PP process?
• POST-PRODUCTION: VFX Breakdown of CG German TV documentary Gigant des Nordens
• POST-PRODUCTION: Converting MOV to M2TS?
• POST-PRODUCTION: Avid media composer certificate??
• POST-PRODUCTION: via falsa teaser VFX Reel
• POST-PRODUCTION: Any other sound designers out there?
• POST-PRODUCTION: Editor Reel Help??
• PRODUCING: VR Storytelling
• PRODUCING: How do I earn from posting online short films
• PRODUCING: ... Just a kid with a dream
• PRODUCING: Writing a pitch
• PRODUCING: Finding a Mentor
• PRODUCING: Movie A inspired by Movie B... Optioning
• SCREENWRITING: Should there be a reason for everything in a screenplay?
• SCREENWRITING: What if someone tells you your a bad writer?
• SCREENWRITING: VR Storytelling
• SCREENWRITING: Calling aspiring screenwriters - critique group?
• SCREENWRITING: Got a "will consider with revisions" on my screenplay!
• SCREENWRITING: Specs do sell.. Spielberg loves Sci-Fi
• TRANSMEDIA: New Transmedia Studio opening in Houston Texas
• TRANSMEDIA: What is transmedia anyway?

INDUSTRY AND ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'building blocks' of storytelling 

How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film 

Sundance Institute And Women In Film Los Angeles Appoint First-Ever Director Of Systemic Change Project

'Fresh Off the Boat' Showrunner Nahnatchka Khan Talks Being the "Only Woman In the Room"

Fox Settles ‘Black Swan’ Interns Lawsuit After Five Years

The 68th Emmy Award Nominations – Complete List

China Lifts Summer Blackout on Hollywood Films Amid Box-Office Slowdown

Chinese Financier of Bruce Willis-Mel Gibson Movie Faces Investor Revolt

How Virtual Reality Is Working to Fix Its Puking Problem

WGA Outlines Timeline For 2017 Awards Eligibility And Submissions

Movie About U.S. Constitution Shut Down After Student Crew Joins IATSE, Walks Off Job

Ohio Doubles its Film Incentives to $40 Million Per Year

When Agents Buy the Clients: WME, UFC and the New Hollywood Hierarchy

Post-Bankruptcy, Relativity Seems Stuck in Limbo

 VIDEOS

The Hollywood Reporter’s Actor Comedy Roundtable 

The Trailer for Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply

 TIPS

10 Motivational TED Talks to Start Your Morning

Cinematography – How Dystopian Romance Equals Was Lit Entirely by Luminescent LEDs

2 Tips to Book the Job With Self-Taped Auditions

17 Writing Tricks to Get You Through Your Screenplay

6 Tips for a Better Edit

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