Filmmaking

The August edition of "On Stage with RB" is now live and free to view on On Demand in our Education section.  You can click here to view the video. Stage 32 Founder and CEO, RB spent over 2 hours going over site features and answering your questions. **We highly recommend you listen around the 1:35 mark for some incredible and powerful advice about Stage 32 – “What’s the #1 networking mistake people make on Stage 32 and what would RB’s best tip for networking on Stage 32 be?” We had an e...

5 Ways You’re Using Twitter Incorrectly to Promote Your Film’s Crowdfunding Campaign Avoid these costly mistakes and get those cameras rolling With the advent of new technology, including the capability to shoot and edit a movie on your smartphone, the barrier of entry for making a film has never been lower. And, with the advent of various crowdfunding platforms, raising funds for a film has, seemingly, never been easier. That’s the good news. However, a lower barrier of entry and technolo...

The Stage 32 community is diverse in talent level and runs the gamut from child actors to Academy, Emmy and Tony Award winners.  It's this range of talent that makes the network complete as we come together daily to share our fears, obstacles, accomplishments and lessons learned along the way in an effort to support and educate toward a common goal of success. It is with these objectives in mind that Stage 32 has decided to join forces with the U + Project to launch the Stage 32 and U + Trai...

As you know education is a huge focus of ours here at Stage 32. Last fall we introduced our Next Level Webinars and have had dozens of presenters teach thousands of Stage 32 members from all over the world. In addition, over at The Stage 32 Happy Writers, we’ve brought in managers and agents as well as industry executives from some of the top studios and production companies to instruct Stage 32 members regarding various disciplines of their craft.  Now, we're ready to expand our scope. Toda...

Today is August 5, 2014. My name is David Rountree and I am ranked 5th on the Top 10 Up-and-Coming Directors under 40 on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).    With two films of completely different genres receiving theatrical releases this year, and winning the Best Film and Best Director award at the 2014 Independent Film and Television Festival, I was recently interviewed about how I became an overnight success as a writer/producer/director. The irony is that my journey in achieving moder...

When I was asked to write a blog for Stage 32 I was extremely honored, but worried that I, as a writer/actor, would have NOTHING to say. Nothing that hasn’t been said before. Nothing unique, fresh or original, but I remembered that so much of what I teach to actors is: WALK THROUGH THE DOOR! My entire career has been based on the “YES” principle. Yes, I’ll take that role, yes, I’ll commit to the path, yes, I’ll write the blog. Yes, Yes, YES. Actress Ruth Gordon got booted out of The Acad...

INT. ANDY’S HOUSE – MORNING. CAPTION: Saturday 19th April 7:00am. I picked up the final item - the camera bag and drove down to the cricket club field. The sky was part cloudy. It looked like it might be a good day. Once at the pavilion I unpacked the essentials. The batteries in the biscuit tin were replaced with biscuits. By 8:30am all the crew were there and things were looking busy. The first scene’s details were written onto the clapperboard. The actors appeared around 9:00a...

FADE IN: INT. ANDY’S HOUSE – MORNING. CAPTION: Saturday 19th April 6:30am. It’s all a bit messy… I’ve never had quite so much stuff in such an assortment of bags as when Saturday the 19th of April 2014 rolled around. The GoPro, Nikon D610 and lenses were in there somewhere, along with their various memory cards.  I was putting spare batteries into a biscuit tin when I realized… things were getting out of hand. All this because I was about to cut my teeth directing a short fil...

The July session of On Stage With RB is now available FREE On Demand.  This is another 2+ hour session with our Founder and CEO, RB. During a nearly 30 minute opening, RB covered the following Stage 32 topics: New navigation bar Searching the Lounge by keyword How to set up and search for Stage 32 Meetups How to best complete your profile How to promote your Stage 32 profile to other social media to "complete the circle" of promotion Happy Writers pitch sessions Then, in a...

1st AD: Theory, Thought and Practice: the position, power, responsibility, trials, tribulations, and troubles of being a 1st Assistant Director (1st AD). The 1st Assistant Director position is widely regarded as the most difficult and least enviable on set. It is one fraught with compromises and negotiations; where politics and artistic visions collide with practical realities and necessities. What exactly does that mean and why is it that so few people seem to know how to do the job compete...