It’s New Student Grant (NSG) time! Pitch packets for the two $250 Spring New Student Grants are due this Thursday at 11:59pm.
Please email completed pitch packets to studio22.exec@gmail.com.
Pitches will take place the evening of Tuesday, March 2nd.

Interested in being on next year’s Studio 22 Executive Board?
Studio 22 is holding Exec board petitions on Tuesday, March 9th. More info and applications coming soon.

Studio 22 Exec

$3000 Grant: Schrödinger’s Box
Written and Directed by Marshall Hilgemann

We would like to thank everyone who put countless hours into their pitch packet and scripts. As always, the competition was fierce and the board had a particularly hard time deciding. We encourage the community to embrace these scripts as they begin pre-production and crew petitions. It’s going to be a fun Spring quarter and you don’t want to miss what these students have put together!

Spring Pitches
Important Dates:
 
Thursday, February 4th
        -Pitch Packets due @ 11:59pm
        -Pitch Packets should be emailed to studio22.exec@gmail.com
        -Download the Spring Pitch Packet Here!
 
Saturday, February 6th
        -Sign up for Pitch Times online by this date
        -More information coming to projects that submit Pitch Packets
 
Monday, February 8th and Tuesday, February 9th
        -Two Night Pitch Process to Studio 22 Executive Board
        -Download information on the Pitch Process Here!
 
Wednesday, February 10th
        -Grant Recipients Awarded
 
February 10th – 20th
        -Pitch Feedback distributed for each Pitch Packet
 
 
Important Documents:
        Spring Pitch Packet
        Pitch Process
        Sample Questions
 
If you have any questions about the Pitch Packet, the Pitch Process, or anything involving Studio 22 Productions email us at studio22.exec@gmail.com

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Date: January 27th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Louis 119

Studio 22 is hosting a Short Script Fireside geared toward Freshman and New Students interested in pitching for the New Student Grant in March. The event will be hosted by the Studio 22 Script Co-Chairs who will be going over a variety of topics in screenwriting to help students be more successful in practical writing, especially for the 5-page script (the length of the New Student Scripts)

Topics will include: Structure of short scripts, feasibility, use of cliché elements, the economics of screenwriting, successful characters in short films, and examples of successful shorts.

Learn from the inside what Studio 22 is looking for when it comes to the New Student Grant pitches in March!!!

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Click HERE to go to our Scripts page!

Studio 22 wants to connect screenwriters with directors! The English department, theater department, creative writing for the media, film MFAs, etc. all work so hard on their writings and then put them in some folder on their computer to be forgotten about until a big Hollywood producer comes along asking for portfolios, while film students interested in directing struggle to find solid work to make into a film.

Studio 22 has set up a system on our website (Scripts) where writers can submit their scripts and directors can browse the synopses, network with writers that would otherwise be uninvolved with the student film world, and create some astonishing pieces.

Here’s how it works: Anyone with a script, short story, or play can upload their piece with a synopsis. Within 24 hours the synopsis will be posted on our Scripts page where directors can view them. If a director is interested, he/she will be able to contact the writer via email and request the rest of the script. (To avoid any sort of plagiarism/copyright issues, only the synopses will be posted on our website and only the writer has the authority to hand-off the entire script to an interested director.)

However, first thing’s first, we need content, so upload your scripts!!!

-Studio 22 Exec

Running Fox — Trailer from Chris Poole on Vimeo.

A Studio 22 Film
Written and Directed by: Pat Bishop and Chris Poole
Producers: Erica Hart and Russell Yaffe
DP: Travis Labella
Gaffer: Aaron Jaffe
Prod Design: David Marx

Coming June 2010

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Check out Studio 22’s upcoming events!

We’re having a Script Workshop (January 27th at 9pm in Louis) for the New Student Grants (Pitches: March 2nd). Come meet our script co-chairs and get advice on script structure and content. This is a great opportunity for new students who haven’t had the chance to be in RTVF 260!

Our Spring Pitches for one $1000 grant and two $3000 grants have been moved back one week from their usual 5th week date to the 6th week (February 8th and 9th). Pitch packets will be due on February 4th at 11:59pm and should be emailed to studio22.exec@gmail.com.

If you have any questions about Spring or New Student Grant pitches or any other Studio 22 related issues, come visit the Co-Presidents during our office hours on Wednesdays from 12:00pm to 2pm in Louis 128.

For the most up-to-date information on all of our events, check our Calendar page.

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Interested in Post-Production?

Do you want to learn more about being an Editor, Colorist, Visual FX Artist, or Audio Engineer?

Come learn from the best! Dave Sampson of Optimus in Chicago will be in Louis 119 to give a presentation and answer questions for students interested in working in the post-production industry.

Monday, November 30th
7:00pm in Louis 119

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We’ve had a great fall quarter thus far, here at Studio 22. Our fall grants have wrapped up their weekends of production and have begun their post-production phases. We would like to congratulate Running Fox, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, and Digital Decay, and the tremendous amounts of work their crews put in this fall. We are very excited to see the films continue to develop in the coming months.

In addition, our executive board made it through another competitive round of pitches to select our winter projects. Congratulations to the production teams of our Bindley Grant, Moment Capacity, and our $1000 Mini Grant, Yellow Room, on their strong pitches and projects. The films have already held their crew head petitions and will be holding general crew petitions next week. Make sure to come out to work on our winter quarter films! We are very excited to work with these projects as they begin pre-production. read more…