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We're Building a Creative Army (And We Want You In It)

We're Building a Creative Army (And We Want You In It)

Week 3: Welcome Week

This week's prize: a FREE Stage 32 First 10 Pages Review. Those first ten pages decide whether anyone reads page eleven, and getting professional eyes on them is one of the most useful things you can do for a script you're about to send anywhere. Every member who completes the mission gets one.

WEEK 3: WELCOME WEEK
Monday, September 14 through Sunday, September 20

Your mission: invite one person you know to join in on Introduce Yourself Weekend, September 18th through 21st. They can come from any part of your life, online or in person, and they don't have to work in the industry. Anyone passionate about film, television, theater, music, or any creative medium counts.

And if you don't know someone new to invite, inviting a friend already here who doesn't normally join in counts too. Some of the best people in this community are quietly reading and never speaking up. Give one of them a reason to.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

  1. Comment on this week's Creative Army post in the Producing Lounge by Sunday and tell us who you invited to introduce themselves.
  2. Share the link to your own Introduce Yourself post so the whole Army can give you a proper welcome. The celebration thread stays open all weekend.

That's it. Ashley will send your code directly. Prefer to keep it private? Email Community@Stage32.com instead. One prize per member per week.

Week 3 post: https://www.stage32.com/lounge/producing/The-Connections-That-Started-on-Stage-32-Creative-Army-Drive-WEEK-3

And while you're in the Introduce Yourself Lounge, say hello to a few new faces: https://www.stage32.com/lounge/introduce_yourself. Welcoming each other is the entire point.

The Creative Army Drive runs all September. Five weeks, five missions, a prize every single week, and a Grand Prize drawing at the end for members who complete three or more: a FREE Stage 32 Career Development Call.

Somebody out there is exactly where you were before you found this place. You might be the person who tells them how to find resources and support that they need.


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Colin Hussey
great moments in scoring - "MacArthur" (Jerry Goldsmith)

Last night, I watched the 1977 movie "MacArthur", starring Gregory Peck in the title role. He was great & the movie was OK, but it was one of those instances where the score was better than the film. It was written by the great Jerry Goldsmith (1929 - 2004). Here's the suite based on the score: http...

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Mark Gosney

Yes, the score to The Mommy is also really good. I love the way he put you in ancient Egypt or you felt like you were in ancient Egypt just by listening to the music. His use of Harmonic Minor and Phr...

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Sagar Jethani

Whoa, where did you find the conductor score? I would love to buy it!

Sagar Jethani

Thank you, Mark Gosney !

Mark Gosney

Sagar Jethani you’re welcome! There are some other great scores on there as well as you’ll see!!

Amer Yussef
Seeking Sync Representation: 22-Track Orchestral & Cinematic Catalog (Bridge.Audio)

Looking for sync representation for my orchestral and cinematic catalog!

I’m a composer with a 22-track catalog fully tagged with complete metadata on Bridge.Audio, featuring epic, dramatic, and ambient scores tailored for film, trailers, and games.

Before sharing the full link, I’d love to connect wi...

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Alex Recheal

Sounds like a well-prepared catalog, having stems and custom cutdowns ready to go is exactly what makes a composer easy to say yes to for supervisors working on tight deadlines. Epic/dramatic/ambient...

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Peter Sauleda

I would encourage you to make a small survey and identify 15-20 music libraries that are working in your genre. Once you have done that write a nice e-mail and a link to your 2-3 favourite tracks or even a reel with your best music. This is the best way to get started.

Amer Yussef

thank you so much , actually i already did research about other music libraries which i am willing to register them as exclusively with tunedge , i have 4 other songs registered with fliktrax as exclu...

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Peter Sauleda

There’s also a Facebook group I belong to called “A Composer’s Guide to Library/Production/Sync Music” that you might find useful. It could be a good place to exchange experiences with other composers...

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Amer Yussef

thank you so much ,, i have joined , i am waiting for them to accept me.

Kat Spencer
What’s Sitting on Your Hard Drive?

Composers are constantly creating, but not everything gets released, pitched, performed, or even finished.

Somewhere on our computers are probably songs, instrumentals, demos, fragments, and ideas we've almost forgotten exist.

When was the last time you actually went through your musical archives? And...

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Tushar Kansal
CARLIGHTS, Composing for Film

Looking Forward to Compose Music for Films, Recently joined here, I am CARLIGHTS, Mainly specializing in 80s inspired, Synthwave, Dreamwave, Y2K Early 2000s styled music, Reach out if it interests You

Sofyane Akar
The Story Behind the Silence

HELLO STAGE 32 I’m a Morocan film composer with a passion for creating cinematic music that builds suspense, emotion, and atmosphere.

I made this short visual experiment to accompany one of my original suspense tracks. I wanted to explore how music and a few carefully chosen images can suggest a stor...

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Emmanuel Obiejemba
Challenges encountered when transitioning from music production for songs to composing for film

When I first started transitioning from music production for songs to composing for film, I watched countless tutorials and read articles from experienced composers and industry professionals. And I learned a lot from those.

But there was this aspect of composing for film I rarely saw anyone talk ab...

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Peter Sauleda

Short Motifs and pedal notes, keep it simple :)

Anže Igličar
Stop Using Generic Plugins. Designing Real Sci-Fi Terror (Black Mirror Re-Score)

Industry standard has become code for sterile. Everyone uses the same digital plugins, the same stock libraries, and the same AI algorithms. The result? Dystopian movies and survival horror games all sound exactly the same.

I don't play by those rules.

I build the raw, visceral, and uncompromising s...

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Carlo Tosini
Stepping up on carreer

Hello everyone, I have some question about carrer development. I collaborated with lot of indies and emerging directors but basically they only did that prject with me and nothing else even with different composers. So how you guys menage to get some proper jobs. They told me you need to grow with d...

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Peter Sauleda

A way to go might be to start writing music for music libraries working for specialised agencies. The music is used ranging from Netflix series, trailers, Ads and all the way to Youtube channels, Ther...

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Carlo Tosini

I considered library music but I decided to not go into that. I want to get proper credits on movies as a composer; just writing some pieces and getting it somewhere does not feel good to me as an art...

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Jinsung Han
Same place (film music compose)

A melody that I came up few years ago

Rick Bontkowski
Composer wanted — 4-minute documentary teaser

I’m currently looking for a composer to create an original score for the 4-minute proof-of-concept teaser for I AM AMPUTEE, a documentary project exploring the lives, struggles, identity, resilience, humor, and humanity of people living with limb loss.

We have completed all primary cinematography and...

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Mark Gosney

Hi Rick, I too would be interested in helping out on this project. I’m a composer of orchestral film score and rock guitar instrumental music. Here’s a play list of some of my orchestral compositions....

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Rick Bontkowski

Mark Gosney Can I get your email? I really like your work, I think we might have a fit.

Mark Gosney

Rick Bontkowski DM sent with my email address.

Mark Gosney

Rick Bontkowski here are the other two guitar links to some other guitar pieces / ideas that I mentioned in my message to you.

https:...

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Rick Bontkowski

Mark Gosney these are definitely in that Satriani / Eric Johnson style. Plan on getting a rough cut of the teaser at end of October. Then we can see if there's a fit....

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Jinsung Han
Let go of your worries (film music compose)

This melody is about letting all of my anxiety

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