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MAKING SHORTS TO LAUNCH YOUR CAREER

A chat with entertainment industry veteran Guy
Magar, Director/Writer/Producer & Action/Cut
Short Film Competition Founder. Hosted by Philippa Burgess of Creative Convergence in Los Angeles.

Hi. I'm a screenwriter whose latest script now has an A-list director (John McTiernan -- "Die Hard" series, "Predator") attached. I'm now looking for a new agent, homes for my various spec scripts and my next writing assignment. Do any of you have someone in your network you would feel comfortable refering me to for any (or all!) of these three goals of mine?

Thanks and good luck to all of you with your own projects.

Regards,

Rob Tobin
[email protected]
714-717-4289

The Vine Entertainment, a subsidiary of The Vine Studio, a full-service production company in Santa Monica, CA calls for entries to our First Annual VIne Shorts Fest! Accepting short films and short screenplays from around the world, in all genres. Films from any year of production are eligible, and must be under 30 minutes in length; Screenplays must be in English, formatted to industry standards, and be no more than 30 pages in length.

Shutter Magazine is looking for YOUR help!

Here's the open positions:

1) New writers - start writing articles about anything film related that you feel could teach an aspiring filmmaker, or that you feel is noteworthy, or something that's satirical like Todd Voltz's 10 ways to seduce a casting director (lol); write about what you love about film!!!!

2) Layout designer: Someone familiar with digitally laying out a magazine and how it needs to be designed

3) Reporters: In addition to article writers, we need to have people that take it upon themselves to cover events and to keep all of us up to date on what's going on in the local film industry

4) Sales people / Street Team - so that the magazine will generate revenue and provide writers and layout designers with compensation, so that we can cover the expense of the print and the expenses. Sales people should earn 15% of their sale.

5) Music - Someone who will oversee what local bands and acts would be willing to donate their music for independent films and make sure they get a listing in Shutter's music for your film page

6) Publishers - You will oversee the printing, the layout design, and work with the Editor-in-Chief to make sure that the magazine is properly distributed

7) Web Designer - You will oversee the Web Design, and make Shutter's awareness known on the web, keeping the myspace page up to date, sending out messages via the facebook group, etc.

Shutter on MySpace

We're seeking moderators for our tech crews and blogs. We’re looking for experts to facilitate discussions, post videos, and answer questions in the Final Cut Studio, Editing, Animation, Chroma-Key, Online Distribution, and Production Equipment forums.

Moderators will contribute a certain number of posts per week; they will also be responsible for recruiting a minimum of 5 new members per post. This is a chance to be one of the founding members in a rapidly-growing community.

To apply, please create an account with REELEDin www.thedailyreel.com/REELEDin and send a link to your REELEDin profile to Michelle DeForest: [email protected].

There is an amazing program for those of you that might not have final draft, but even for those who do.

http://www.celtx.com

Here's the description:

Combines full-feature scriptwriting with pre-production support and also enables online collaboration. Mac, Linux and Windows.

You can write a script, import a script, break it down, storyboard, schedule, and there are web services that allow you to back-up your project, share with others to collaborate, and publish you project to be public or private.

On REELEDin user Keven Nalty's blog WillVideoforFood.com, Nalts announced that he will now be doing seminars on the capabilities of online video as a tool for marketing products. Nalts is truly the man when it comes to all things web video, and is ahead of the pack in stretching the medium. Check out his sheet here and add him as a contact, and read more about his seminars here.

Check out this site that lists a variety of different documents and files that your production could find VERY valuable.

http://www.dependentfilms.net/files.html

Some include:

-Location Contract

-Talent Release Form

-Call Sheet Template

-Location Release Form

-Personal Release Form

-Location Scouting Sheet

-Production Budgeting Proposal

-Cast/Crew Contact Sheet

-Continuity Log

-Daily Progress/Production Reports

-Story Board Tools/Templates

-Film Budget

-Palm Pilot Databases

-I could go on....but I think you can already see that this one website offer a lot!

Enjoy and thanks to Dependent Films for this wonderful Resource!

The web may be great for gaining global attention, but it also works well when trying to get the attention of locals. That's why the recent rise of local "neighborhood" comedy blogs - many of which regularly feature videos from local performers is something worth keeping an eye on. In particular, the Apiary network - which includes New York-based The Apiary, Chicago-based The Bastion, and Los Angeles-based The Coming do a great job of covering their respective local comedy scenes. Those three sites also regularly feature new videos every Wednesday and it's a great way to get some attention for your work. Tell 'em the Daily Reel sent you...

On a side note, the Bastion recently put out a call that they are looking for some new writers for the site in case anyone in the Chicago comedy scene is looking to contribute.