telling stories
Excerpt from an article by Charlie LaPlaca of Wall.Patch.com
Allison Vanore to return in March for the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park
Wall can now claim to be the hometown of a Hollywood producer.
Allison Vanore, a 2000 graduate of Wall High School, has spent the last two years in Los Angeles producing various independent... [read more]
Today I was featured in the Arizona Daily Star - check it out!
by Phil Villarreal
Movie producer Allison Vanore left Tucson nearly seven years ago to make her mark on the Los Angeles film scene. She's paid her dues... [read more]
Events this week:
**January 20, 2011 - January 30, 2011**
Event: Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Hosts: Sundance Institute
Where: Park City, Utah - View the Interactive Festival Map
Monday, January 24, 2011
7:00pm - until late
Event: LA Actor’s Tweetup
Hosts: @TheJudalina, @LaurenDWebb, @TiffanyPrice, and @BenWhitehair & #ConnectionExperiment
Busby’s East
5364 Wilshire Blvd. 90036
(2nd floor. Go up the stairs and turn left)
Cost: FREE - RSVP here
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Event: The Treasure Hunt Premiere - Chad, Matt and Rob
Hosts: Rob Polonsky, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella
Where:
The Laemmle Music Hall 3
Thursday, January 27, 2011
7:30pm - 11:59pm
Event: New Media Vault
Host: Damian Pelliccione
Where:
Libertine
8210 West Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046
Cost: FREE - RSVP Here
Friday, January 28, 2011
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Event: Come celebrate GOLD and NOTZK! Official Wrap Party
Host: GOLD, a Web Series
Where:
Meltdown Comics
If you know of an event, are hosting an event or would like to submit information for next week, please email us here. Thank you for contributing to the event list! If there are mistakes above, please contact us here and provide the revised information. Thank you!
Check out my interview on the Replaced website... here's a short excerpt form the interview:
How did you become involved with Replaced?
I met Heath over a year ago at a lunch that was inspired by a Twitter conversation. A few of us were discussing how to market and promote our shows online. Bernie Su and Matt Meeks had amazing insight as to how they were promoting their shows and so we all decided to meet for lunch to discuss. At the lunch: Bernie, Matt, Jamie Fishback, Jonathan Nail, Heath Vinyard and myself.
Replaced SeriesThere is much debate and discussion over the monetization of video content on the web - even just today there were discussions at the NewTeeVee Conference on this topic. Brands, studios and distribution companies are slowly seeing our medium as a viable way to make money. Our community is making entertaining, well written and well acted content and our audience is growing. We're figuring out how to brand, promote and market our shows to our massive global audience.
While we continue to pitch and promote our shows we also need to keep doing what we do best. Tell stories. We're committed to telling stories that are unique and inspiring and we aim to build a positive creative force and an engaged fan base behind them.
This week we are launching the IndieGoGo campaign for Replaced Series in order to raise money to shoot pilot episodes of this show. We have received funds from a private source and so this fund raising campaign will serve as Gap funding to reach our budgetary goal. We know that with a show like this we can find an audience.
What is Replaced about? Here's a summary:
Still grieving from the death of his son and the divorce from his wife that ensued from the tragedy, U.S. Marshal Alexander Finche (Jon Briddell) finds himself the target in a genetic conspiracy and framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Alex leads a fugitive case and crosses paths with a former geneticist, but now convicted felon Jesse Sinclair (John T. Cogan), who was once an integral part of the plot against Alex, but has now been cast out of the organization, discredited and humiliated in front of his former peers. Alex and his partner Samantha Baine (Lisa Catara) are on the trail of a man named Darren Anderson, a powerful person with whom Sinclair is very familiar and whom he fears. Sinclair knows about Alex’s past, his divorce, the death of his son, and how his life has spiraled out of control since searching for Anderson.
On the hunt for Alex is an ex-military Special Forces veteran, Carter Bell, who now heads a government sanctioned private military agency. Bell, instrumental in causing the death of Alex’s son, is relentless and will stop at nothing to capture Alex, even killing those that stand in his way. Those that are not killed are simply REPLACED.
Now on the run with his own longtime partner Sam hunting him, Alex must unravel the plot against him, clear his name, and find the elusive architect behind this massive conspiracy that reaches the highest levels he didn't think possible.
With $8,500 in additional funds our team will be able to deliver top notch, exciting drama as seen in Vinyard's End Result and a collection of talent brought together by Casting Director, Laurie Records (SOLO The Series). Together with Producer, Allison Vanore (SOLO The Series, Hopelessly in June) this team is unstoppable. This may just be the next successful show on the web.
To donate a few bucks (or an entire suitcase full) please visit our IndieGoGo campaign for Replaced Series.
Become a Fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for the latest news surrounding Replaced!
When I attend an event where there are panels, screenings, Q&A's, etc. I always make sure that I'm Tweeting and updating on Facebook and the like about my experience. Part of the reason is that it helps me remember what I'm listening to and experiencing (like taking notes). The other reason is that I'm able to communicate the information that I'm taking in to my network.
For instance, while at ITVFest and NYTVFest this year I attended as many panels and Q&A's I could. At the beginning of each panel I would tweet who was on the panel - Name and Company. As the panel began, I would tweet key points, quotes from the discussion, including the name of the person talking and a hashtag or twitter handle for the event. Examples from ITVFest and NYTVFest:
@alliecine I'm at "Building Your Career as a TV Writer - panelists Mike Betancourt, Sarah Fain, Halsted Sullivan, Eric Wallace & Maria Ferrari @itvfest
@alliecine Coffee chat will be with John Axelson "Polish your Pitch" @itvfest
@alliecine "Show tape in your pitch. 4-6 min or less." -Scott, A&E @nytvf
@alliecine "We are moving towards realtime storytelling it's like sitting in a circle telling stories, getting feedback, feeding on energy." @nytvf
@alliecine "Brands don't see just video views as success. It's all about activating the audience." @nytvf
What happened when I did this? I had more ReTweets and new Followers in a week than I normally do. I had people thanking me for tweeting the information. I had people recommending that other follow me immediately if they wanted to get in on the information I was tweeting.
Also, as I was tweeting, if I found the panelists on Twitter I would use their Twitter handle when I was quoting them. What did that do? These people who I was tweeting were seeing what I was doing and therefore noticed me. I even had a panelist at ITVFest call me out for it:
@mikerotman I'm secretly hoping @alliecine will be highlight tweeting from my #itvfest panel on Monday.
I had the festival directors thanking me for promoting the festivals and their panelists. Win-win for everyone involved! And how it helped me even more... as I had an audience following my tweets carefully, when I did tweet about my show and screenings, I had people paying attention and sharing the information.
@alliecine Heading in for the 6:30 screening of @solotheseries at @itvfest!
@alliecine http://twitpic.com/2s0it1 - Us at the awards ceremony! @nytvf @robgokee
So if you're hosting an event, attending an event or looking for someone to help with all of the above - you know where to find me and hopefully these tips will help you promote your event and share the knowledge - after all, that's what Twitter and social media are all about.
After a successful IndieGoGo campaign we were able to put the $7100 raised towards shooting Episodes 4 - 9 of SOLO The Series which will finish out Season 1 of our series. Our goal was to raise $13K and if we had been able to do that in time, we would have been able to pay a small stipend to our cast and crew for their time, energy and creativity. Luckily, we have a passionate team that stood behind us regardless of the pay!
Here's a run down of our week of production:
Thursday
Production Meeting with our Team: Frederick Snyder (Director), Raphe Wolfgang (DP), Chris Szadkowski (Production Design), Andrew Seely (AD), Jonathan Nail (Creator) and me - Allison Vanore (Producer).
Friday
Meeting w/ Corina Spadoni - Wardrobe
Equipment Pick-Ups
Saturday
Prepare and send out Call Sheets
Finalize the remaining crew & cast schedules
Sunday
Pre-light: Spent the night lighting the spaceship in Jonathan's garage, building dimmers and eating pizza.
Art Load-in: We were wow'ed by Chris' props and techy/electronic capabilities.
Wardrobe fittings
Rehearsal on set / choreography
Monday - Day 1 - Spaceship
Call time 5pm
Wrapped at 4am
Tuesday - Day 2 - Spaceship
Call time 5pm
Wrapped at 4am
Wednesday - Day 3 - Spaceship
Call time 5pm
Wrapped at 5am
Thursday
Since we wrapped early in the morning this is a "day off" however due to running out of time on some coverage, our camera team decides to shoot for a couple of hours to get coverage of PHAL and Scott in the ship.
Friday
Call time 6am
The morning scenes were supposed to take place outside and included a pool and hot tub... this morning was extremely cold and the yard we were shooting in was shaded so the look and the performance of the actors was greatly affected by the location and weather. After discussing these problems, running through the first shot a few times and then trying to subdue an extremely excited and loud squirrel in the tree above, we decided to scrap the location and change the scene. This scene will be shot on an upcoming weekend in November.
Wrapped at 5pm
Saturday
Call time 7am
This day consisted of a lot of blocking and dialogue between characters, Gerry and Ratish, as well as a few new additions. We ended the night with a lot of laughs as we added a few touches to the Becks bedroom scene that has to do, yet again, with shoes.
Wrapped at 7:30pm
Sunday
Call time 11am
Sunday felt a bit schizophrenic because we shot Yakuza scenes in the dining room, Green screen in the living room and then Office scenes in the office and Ext. night shots... we were all over the place! At the end of the night, we were borrowing Jonathan's neighbor's car for the last scene and after about 45 minutes of the car sitting there with the headlights on... the car died. Go figure.
We didn't have the car on due to sound issues but the lights were on for the look. A dead battery ended our night a bit early and a shot or two short.
Wrapped at 11:30pm
After wrapping these 6 days we began the editing process with our editor extraordinaire, Frank Mohler. At the same time we have about 2 and a half days left to shoot so our time is spent location scouting and getting wardrobe and art set for the last few scenes of the show!
At this point I have seen rough cuts of Episodes 4, 5 and 6 - and I'm excited because it's looking great!
More to come soon! For more photos from the shoot, check out our Facebook Fan Page for SOLO and the official website.
by Allison Vanore, Producer of "Hopelessly in June"
There’s nothing better than a well oiled machine.
These two weeks in August are really the busiest and most important weeks of our entire production. With a sudden influx of talent and resources, we are kicking it into gear and pumping out the film in a few big days on set!
Really it all comes down to preparation. All of my work is done before we even set foot on set (for the most part). If we’ve done our job preparing then it goes smoothly. What this preparation means is having all of my duties complete. A peek at my “to do” list... [more here]
This Thursday (tomorrow) marks the beginning of the Independent Television Festival in Los Angeles, CA. We are lucky enough to be attending and screening SOLO The Series at the festival on Wednesday, August 4th at 5:45pm.
The festival starts with a Show Creator Luncheon where we will receive our credentials and information about what to expect at the festival. After getting my passes I'll head home to get ready for the ITVFest Gala that night!
Those in attendance from our show will me (producer & director Allison Vanore), creator & star Jonathan Nail, composer Rob Gokee, cast Michele Boyd, Jason Burns, Amol Shah and casting director Laurie Records. There will be a red carpet event prior to the Gala: photos and interviews for the cast. At the Gala I'll be mingling and networking with the other show creators, actors and producers. We'll be promoting SOLO to the party goers in the hopes that we will fill the theatre for our screening on Wednesday.
Outside of our screening I'm also looking forward to many of the panels/seminars they are hosting. Saturday there are two panels that I'm looking forward to hearing: Development: Selling Your Show and Building A Career as a TV Writer. Sunday I'll also attend Representation: Getting That is Half The Battle and The Studio System. Then on Tuesday I look forward to attending Getting Sponsors for your Show. It will be awesome to hear what the festival has to offer the show creators while we screen our shows and meet each other.
Shows I'm looking forward to seeing at ITVFest: Anyone But Me, Hamilton Carver, Fall of Kaden, Squatters, Cell The Web Series and Going to Pot. See the trailers here: Page 1 & Page 2.
If you plan on being at ITVFest please let me know so we can meet up! I'm hoping to hit up a few of the coffee mixers and a few of the night events.
Again, SOLO The Series screens Wednesday, August 4th at 5:45pm at Laemmle Sunset 5 for ITVFest. Buy tickets here.
Check out Allison Vanore in her interview about her work on Hopelessly in June.
An Interview with Allison Vanore
Check out the entire Hopelessly in June blog here.