Guy Palace's Lounge Discussions

Mike Romoth
Greetings and good luck with your projects!

I imagine there are many like myself who took the last year to hunker down and get those projects finished. Now, it's "go" time, right? Go make that happen, go make that real. Nice to see some familiar faces/names from back in the day on Stage32.

Guy Palace

Still hunkered down on first draft of first script. Plan is to finish, then participate in an online course for what I need to look for, beats, story arcs, etc.

Daniel Stuelpnagel

I built a visual outline and concept art for a sprawling sci-fi epic during quarantine, pages of notes and outline and wrote scattered scenes, but then this year shifted to some feature scripts in my...

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Karen "Kay" Ross
Final Draft 12 Crashing?

Has anyone else had issues with Final Draft 12 crashing on their PC when using the Beat Board? Any tips on how to prevent the crash?

Thanks in advance!

Chaun Lee

Karen "Kay" Ross I thought it was my PC. Ok, so this must be something with the program. CJ Walley thanks for the suggestion. I've never heard of Prewrite....

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Jim Boston

Karen, I'm a big Prewrite fan...and if you take CJ's advice and give Prewrite a try, you're sure to love it!

Doug Nelson

I upgraded to FD12 because of all the buzz about how good its Beat Board system is. I'm 'old school' so I learned to do beat sheets with a #2 lead pencil & a note book. After struggling with the FD sy...

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Karen "Kay" Ross

I found a thread that mentions turning off the Outline function while using the Beat Board, which seems to allow it to work without crashing. So far so good.

Also, just signed up for Prewrite - thank y...

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Guy Palace

And here I was, just about to invest in FD. Prewrite. Will look em up tomorrow. Thanks.

Dustin Quinteros
Pitch Deck, Series Bible... Is there a difference?

I have my opinions regarding pitch decks, not a fan but, that's another story. My question is, does anyone really see a difference in the two? Isn't a series bible and pitch deck essentially the same thing? Besides a few minor differences... thoughts, am I wrong? If so, set me straight.

Maurice Vaughan

You're welcome, Dan Guardino.

Nguyen Townsend-Paley

Chris Mack, Director, Creative Talent Investment & Development for Netflix International Originals at Netflix... In his latest pitch workshop he went on to say the difference between the two was simpl...

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CJ Walley

Seems you closed your account, Dan. I can reactivate if you want and you can upload your pitch decks.

CJ Walley

Account reactivated, my dude.

Donnalyn Vojta

Yes. They are different in terms of some of their contents. A series bible includes short summaries of upcoming episodes and ideas for future seasons. For movie lookbooks (not known as "bibles"), you...

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Paul Meskunas
First post

Hi Everyone,

So glad to be here. I joined the Stage 32 community a couple months ago. I am really enjoying the webinars and other educational offerings here. I submitted my first completed screenplay, Lush Life, to the Stage 32 Comedy Feature Film contest. That felt so great. Can't wait for the feedb...

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Guy Palace

Who's the biopic on?

Jose Saldivar

Congratulations! Getting that first screenplay out is exciting. Best of luck to you.

Paul Meskunas

Thanks everyone. : )

Paul Meskunas

Guy Palace Sorry, too early to reveal!

Guy Palace

Paul Meskunas I live in DC. If research leads to LoC, let me know. Just saying.

Dustin Quinteros
Know your genre, Old School thought, or words of Wisdom?

We've all heard the saying, "Know your genre", but why pigeonhole yourself? Why limit your story telling? If you write horror, but you have a great idea for a comedy or drama, should you not write it? Art is art after all. While most of us have a particular style of writing is that style limited to...

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Guy Palace

Read comments and it appears "voice" is the common thread, followed by style and genre. Although clichés, know the genre well enough (what the reader, producer, lit agent etc. are expecting to see) so...

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Miroslav Trcak

@Guy Well said

Dustin Quinteros

Lot of responses on this one, was hard to keep up but, the consensus seems to be good story telling is good storytelling. Now we just need to get the rest of the industry (the gatekeepers) to figure that out.

Jane Allyson

I DONT WRITE ANYTHING IF I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. HATE WASTING PAPER

Melody Mundy

I must be a 1000 people because I'm comfortable in whatever voice I want to write about. My first short is about two Asian women, my next about two African American brothers and my next feature about...

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Guy Palace
Writer, Actor

Hey folks! Brand-spanking new to these here parts. Working on first feature and LOVED the Netflix webinar. Need more info on Pitch Package as, boy, do I have an idea to pitch. (Just show me the end of that line and I'll take my place, thank you).

Karen "Kay" Ross

Hey, Guy Palace! My name is Kay, I'm the Community Manager here at Stage 32. If you'd like to learn more about myself and the Stage32 Team, we have an intro blog: https://www.stage32.com/blog/Meet-the...

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