Justin Glenn: Actor, director and filmmaker in Portland, Oregon.

Eli Jakeman
Am I arrogant?

Working on a screenplay, and I have ideas about shots from certain angles. Is that arrogent of me to put those in as I'm not a director. Do Directors find this annoying?

Justin Glenn

I find that if you are using certain angles in a scene, it's best to use those for the opening establishing shots.

Paul Norman Rich

My constant fear when writing is "taking the reader out of the realm of the script.'" One single stupid typo can do that. One egregious format miscue can do that. Which is why I suffer "Fear of Submis...

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Erick Freitas

You're better off not doing it. Use screenplay techniques to heavily imply how to shoot it. For example, if I say "A hand grabs a fork" obviously the director will think a close up of a hand grabbing a fork.

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Justin. 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.

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Amanda Toney

Hello Justin -

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.

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