Kristina Stagg: Author and screenwriter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Nightcrawler Screenplay: Overrated or a great piece of writing?

I’ve talked shop with several screenwriters who say not only is Nightcrawler one of their favorite films, but it’s also one of their favorite screenplays. I’ve attached a link here for screenwriting forum dwellers to check out this Dan Gilroy script. Read the first five to ten pages and see if you n...

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Kristina Stagg

I love Nightcrawler! I recently took a screenwriting course for school that I used it for. I love to read scripts in general. IMSDB.com is one of my favorite websites for finding scripts to read (they aren't always the final version, but it's still a good way to learn).

Stephen Olson

Looks like he does not use slug lines and inserts camera directions but then if he was directing then it would make scense to put in the camera directions.

Christian Conte

Enjoyed reading the script. Not sure an unknown can get away with liberties in formatting. Or maybe they could? I wonder.

Kristina Stagg
Reintroduction

Hello all! Since it's Introduce Yourself Weekend I thought I'd reintroduce myself. My name is Kristina Stagg, and I'm an aspiring author and screenwriter. I'm currently working on a MA in English and Creative Writing (including screenwriting courses). I've also started considering my hand at manuscr...

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Amanda Toney

Hi Kristina Stagg, it's nice to meet you! There's so many great, creative people in Wisconsin. Have you ever attended the Flyway Film Festival in WI? It's a great place to network: https://www.flywayf...

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Kristina Stagg

Thank you, Amanda, I just sent John a network request, and I'm going to look into the Flyway Film Festival. I appreciate your recommendations!

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LOGLINE:

Dooley, a longtime member of the Child Protection Force, must decide whether or not to fulfill his mission, but doing so would break the number one rule.

Kyle Climans

Rated this logline

Kristina Stagg

Thanks for the rating Kyle! It's in short story mode at the moment (for a creative writing course), but I'm going to transition it to a script soon.

Callum McKay
Writing Peeves

Hi all, so last night my sister was watching a film that I won't mention the title of here, but it got me thinking of things that are included in stories that really bug me, and was wondering what are people's biggest peeves in scripts or stories? So for example my biggest peeves are stories that in...

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Adi Tantimedh

Major peeve in thrillers: when a character pulls a gun on someone, they insist on getting close to the person they pulled the gun on and end up getting disarmed.

This is one of the most stupid things t...

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Jurij Fedorov

Characters needing to be good to seek redemption. The most overdone storyline ever and more often than not it just ends up being cliche and boring because the writer doesn't really understand any of t...

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Hitting the minimum page count

Hi all, its been a while and i hope you are all doing well.

So i finally received my Screenwriters Bible (yay), and what a great read it is. However, once again i find myself hitting a wall and seek you're collective knowledge.

My current project is 84 pages long. Im just 6 away from the recommended m...

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Anthony Lucas

Thats awesome Eric thanks mate i'll take a look. It looks like im getting caught up in the standards and not the story itself. I'll give a couple more run throughs and start prepearing it for the next stage. Thanks again everyone, you really do help me move forward.

Peter Roach

You worry too much. There is a great small movie "Good for Nothing." Sparse dialogue, taught me not to expand dialogue for dialogue sake.

Anthony Lucas

Yeah i guess im trying to over egg the pudding to make sure it fits all the standard formats and lengths. I'll press on with it as it is, im satisfied its finished and we'll see what we'll see. Thanks for the advice mate

It's so exciting to see women kicking ass in Hollywood. Such an inspiration!

Kate Rees Davies

Thanks so much Kristina, 2018 is going to be awesome for us! Dream Big, anything is possible :)

Rachel Goldberg

Whoo whoo!!!

Shea E. Butler

We love kicking it! Cheers.

Kristina Stagg

It was absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and expertise.

Prema Rose

Such an awesome panel! Thanks for all the in depth information, delivered in a fun format.

Richard "RB" Botto

So glad you enjoyed it, Kristina! Thanks for commenting!

Richard "RB" Botto

We always try to keep it informative AND fun, Prema. Glad to hear we hit the mark!

Kristina Stagg
Greetings!

Hi, all. My name is Kristina. I am an aspiring screenwriter (read: very green) looking to learn as much as I can and network with people. I live in Southeastern Wisconsin, but I grew up as an Air Force Brat (born in South Carolina). I'm really excited to be here!

Mike W. Rogers

Hello Kristina, welcome!

Kyle Climans

Welcome to Stage 32!

Robert Parera

Ms. Stagg, it's a pleasure to greet you. Stick around and learn. Lots of folks with great advice and wisdom. get to know them.

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Kristina. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Li...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Kristina -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you...

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Kristina's network

Kenneth M Sutton
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J.R Meek
Dave Aquino
Matthew Parvin
Joshua Young
Delores Wheeler
Daan Van 't Einde
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