RB's Stage 32 News, Notes, Discussions and Other Fun Stuff (February 20, 2015)

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STAGE 32 NEWS
It’s that time again! Time for the February 2015 edition of On Stage with RB. Every month our Founder & CEO, RB, in a webinar setting goes over the best way to use Stage 32 to help your career. He brings on special guests who work in the industry, such as literary managers and development executives to offer advice to our community. Afterwards, he opens up the floor to you for a live Q&A session about anything and everything in the industry. Best of all, this is FREE, exclusively for Stage 32 members. To read more and to get a spot in February's On Stage with RB, click here: **On Stage with RB

Mark your calendars! Please join Stage 32 and Robert McKee’s STORY Magazine as we celebrate the release of the February 2015 issue featuring our own Founder & CEO, Richard Botto on the cover.** Open to all filmmakers in LA who are Stage 32 members, this is a fun meetup talking about film, writing, producing and all the things we love. In addition, there will be some great Stage 32 giveaways! You don't want to miss out! To read more and to RSVP, click here: **Stage 32 & Robert McKee's STORY Magazine Issue Release Party

Join Stage 32 for our 3rd annual Stage 32 Oscar Contest! Every year we invite our Stage 32 community to vote on your choice for the Oscar winners. The 10 entries with the most correct will win awesome prizes.** Last year's winner, Mike Breen, set a pretty high bar nailing 23 selections. Let's see if anyone can beat that for 2015! All you have to do is go down the list, point, click, and submit. It's that simple. To read more about the contest, click here: 3rd annual Stage 32 Oscar Contest

This week, our Founder, CEO and fearless leader RB was a guest on Stage 32 member Dave Bullis' popular filmmaking podcast. On the podcast, RB and Dave discuss a wide variety of topics including RB's experiences at this year's Sundance Film Festival, how to market yourself, the state of the film industry and were they think it's headed, RB's latest screenplay and then closed the discussion with RB going into depth about his new book on crowdsourcing. To hear the podcast, click here: RB on the Dave Bullis Podcast

NEXT LEVEL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
Tuesday 2/24 at 1pm PST Stage 32 Next Level Webinars presents How To Pitch Your TV Pilot To Cable Networks with host Jordan Barel, TV Dept. at Abominable Pictures (Burning Love and Children’s Hospital on Adult Swim). Host Jordan Barel will teach you both how to pitch your pilot and how to tailor your pitch to the right cable network. In addition, he’ll go over what kind of shows live on each network currently, and what may be the right fit for you. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how to pitch effectively (information you can take with you over to the Happy Writers Pitch Sessions!) as well as a clear understanding of how to make your pilot what each network is looking for. To read more about the webinar, see a video from Jordan and to sign up, click here: How To Pitch Your TV Pilot To Cable Networks

Thursday 2/26 at 1pm PST Stage 32 Next Level Webinars presents How The Pros Rewrite: Essential Rewriting Tools and Techniques hosted by Corey Mandell, screenwriter and screenwriting coach who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Walt Disney Pictures – just to name a few. Corey Mandell will walk you through the entire rewrite process – from first understanding how your story reads in other people’s heads (and why that is important!) all the way to correcting structural weaknesses in your script. He will break down rewrite memos, notes, and narrative cohesion, leaving you with a comprehensive overview of how to do an effective rewrite and how to immediately apply it to your own work. To read more about the webinar and to register, click here: How The Pros Rewrite: Essential Rewriting Tools and Techniques

Starting Thursday 2/26 the Stage 32 Happy Writers brings you the 4 week online intensive course How to Hook the Executive in the First 10-15 Pages taught by Joseph Perruccio, Creative Executive at Safehouse Pictures/SONY. This hands on 4 week course will give you these much needed tools and you will have the opportunity to mold your pages under Joseph's supervision. Every week the writer will be given homework assignments directly geared towards strengthening their pages. To read more about this class and to register, click here: How to Hook the Executive in the First 10-15 Pages
Saturday 2/28 at 11am PST join Stage 32 Next Level Webinars for Producers: How To Find and Vet Great Scripts with host Joe Russo, who has worked on projects with FOX, SyFy, A/E, Lionsgate Films and Universal Studios. In this webinar, Joe will explain from an executive’s point of view the best ways to find and identify a great script. He will also dive into how Hollywood producers analyze material and determine if it’s worth taking on, so you can learn to do the process just like the pros do. You will leave this webinar with a clear understanding of how and where to find great undiscovered scripts, as well as how to analyze the material to make sure you’re setting yourself up for success. To see a video from Joe, read more about the webinar and to sign up, click here: Producers: How To Find and Vet Great Scripts

STAGE 32 SUCCESS STORIES- CUE 3 PRODUCTION hired a Stage 32 actor! This is a paid job.

Happy Writer!
Camera Operator hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Screenwriter hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Actor hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Sound Mixer hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Production Assistant hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Producer hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Voice Artist hired through Stage 32 Jobs
Director hired through Stage 32 Jobs
short script LIMBO optioned and cast
Great exposure
Requested!
Requested by Valleywood Entertainment
Thanks!
REQUESTED by Intellectual Property Group!!
Script requested, much thanks to Happy Writers
One step closer!
Requested by Ramo Law PC!
Very Thankful to Get a Script Request
Requested by Whitewater Films

POPULAR AND INTERESTING LOUNGE DISCUSSIONS- ACTING: Where I can find theatre plays scripts for free?

ACTING: Building a relationship with your Agent.
ACTING: Travel security and payment for crew and actors.
ACTING: The Office's Jenna Fischer's Advice to Actors
ACTING: Stunt Coordinators, Stunt Actors and Stunt Performers
ACTING: How do you attract a cd in development stages?
ACTING: Acting: Oscar-winning actress learns (too late) how Hollywood works, what she did wrong
ACTING: Offered a spot as an Extra on upcoming film?
ACTING: Audition websites
ANIMATION: Don Hertzfeldt's "World of Tomorrow"
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Winter Is Bleak. But It Does Increase Production Value. Cybel DP’s Tips for Shooting in Cold Weather
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Can you recommend a Panasonic GH3 guide and lenses?
CINEMATOGRAPHY: A quick look at my GH2 with the new Tascam DR60D Mk2
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Diving into Color: DP Daryn Okada Shows You What Life Is like Color Correcting a Film
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lighting for comercials
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Low end 4K
CINEMATOGRAPHY: A Breakdown of the Beautiful Cinematography in "Drive"
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Canon C100 Mark 2, thoughts, experience ?
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roundup of Profound Cinematography Knowledge from the World's Best DPs
CINEMATOGRAPHY: DV Cameras
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brief Look at the Cinematography of "Birdman"
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Directing Movies: Few Know More Than the Cinematographer
COMPOSING: Synthesizers Killing Film and TV Music?
COMPOSING: Michael Mann On Picking a Composer
COMPOSING: How Hans Zimmer composed for "Interstellar"
COMPOSING: The Function of Film Music
COMPOSING: What is a realistic budget percentage one needs for music composition?
COMPOSING: Driven Into Paradise
COMPOSING: 12 Film Composers to Watch
COSTUME DESIGN: Why Costume Design?
COSTUME DESIGN: Predictions for Best Costume Design
COSTUME DESIGN: Post-Apocalyptic Badass Heroine
CREW: Does anyone have a good story from their first time on set?
CREW: The 5 People Filmmakers Need for a Tiny Skeleton Crew
DEVELOPMENT: Screenplay Rights
DEVELOPMENT: Simple Methods to Help Start Your Film Project in 2015
DEVELOPMENT: Doing the Dance
DISTRIBUTION: Tips on Film Distribution
DISTRIBUTION: VHX.TV - Have you used them?
DISTRIBUTION: Selling A film to Distribution before It's Filmed...
EDITING: Top 10 Editing Moments of all Time
EDITING: After effects and premiere pro tutorials
EDITING: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From 'Psycho' to 'Hugo'
EDITING: 10 Tips for Video Editing
EDITING: Editing Trailers to Music.
EDITING: How much should a new editor charge for this...
FILMMAKING: Filmmaking: Things that Old Hollywood Banned Onscreen
FILMMAKING: My bootleg short film
FILMMAKING: Documentary dilemma..
FILMMAKING: Equipment
FILMMAKING: Internship
FILMMAKING: Does the look/size matters?
FUNDRAISING: Kickstarter promotion idea
POST-PRODUCTION: File Management
POST-PRODUCTION: Why doing your vfx for free isn’t a great opportunity for me, my students or my grads
POST-PRODUCTION: Grading in an old version of Premiere Elements
PRODUCING: Acquiring Screenplays
PRODUCING: Better Call Saul- Networks move into Transmedia Storytelling
PRODUCING: 15 Tips on making your first micro-budget film
PRODUCING: Producer Workshops?
PRODUCTION: Fifty Shades of Grey set for $110m global debut as France gives film a 12 certificate
PRODUCTION: Hollywood Location Shooting Surges as Canadian Dollar Collapses
PRODUCTION: Actress Turned Director Launches a Female Production Company
SCREENWRITING: What Film Needs A Remake/Reboot?
SCREENWRITING: Agents and managers
SCREENWRITING: My Top 10 Films of 2014 & What They Can Teach to Screenwriters
SCREENWRITING: Learning the craft.
SCREENWRITING: Screenwriting and explicit topics
SCREENWRITING: Goals vs Needs - Great Article by Danny Manus
SCREENWRITING: Selling Your First Project
SCREENWRITING: McKee on Negaphobia
SCREENWRITING: Recommend a script
SCREENWRITING: The End of the Three-Act Structure (by James Hull)
SCREENWRITING: CPR misconceptions
SET DESIGN & PROPS: How long does it take to build these amazing sets?
SET DESIGN & PROPS: Antiques
SET DESIGN & PROPS: Creating the Hotel in "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
SOUND EDITING: Congratz to the Golden Reel Award Winners!
SOUND EDITING: The Sound design/Editing Behind the Film Inception
SOUND EDITING: The wonders of iZotope!
SPECIAL EFFECTS: FACE OFF on Syfy -- Are you a fan?
SPECIAL EFFECTS: And the Oscar for Best Visual Effects goes to... Autodesk's Maya
SPECIAL EFFECTS: Learning After Affects
SPECIAL EFFECTS: After Effects Tutorial - Mask Tracking
VOICE ACTING: SAG VO-Lab
VOICE ACTING: Will Siri ever replace real voice actors?
VOICE ACTING: Rate Sheets
VOICE ACTING: I'm so new I'm still in the box!!!
VOICE ACTING: VO gear question for home studio setup

STAGE 32 PLANNED AND PROPOSED MEETUPS- ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Oscar Viewing Party in Albuquerque

BUFFALO, NY: New venue for Buffalo & Canada February meet up *also includes details on how to subscribe to the meet up newsletter*
HUDSON VALLEY, NY: Hudson Valley / NYC
LAFAYETTE, LA: Lafayette, LA Meet Up
LAS VEGAS, NV: Las Vegas meet up
LOS ANGELES, CA: Creative partnerships
ORANGE COUNTY, CA: Orange County, Ca Screenwriter's Group
PHOENIX, AZ: PHOENIX AREA MEETUP w/Stage 32 & No BullScript Feb 20th
RICHMOND, VA: Virginia meetup
TAMPA, FL: Tampa, Florida anyone?
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Washington DC meetup on 2/26
CANNESS, FRANCE: Cannes
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: Meetup do Stage32 no BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro
SOUTH LONDON, UK: Meet up with anyone into experimental film in south london?

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS- David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58

VIDEOS- Watch: How They Did the Single Take in Birdman

TIPS- Why You Should Make a DIY Film That Matters

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