Question:
Ok guys, a few things that are missing from this website that needs to be here for your benefit as directors.

A) A section in the forum topics to find actors/actresses.

B) A section in the forum topics to find compusers.

C) A section in the forum topics to find crew members.

They all must stand out from each other.

These will be all discussion rooms to talk freely about the topic of what's listed above. This will be perfect.

You all need these things to make a movie, so everyone click yes so you can show the Moderators that you guys find this being a useful tool for directors.

Choices:
Yes!

 

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I do think those sections could be useful, but if you look at the classifieds forum it's not really jammed up with posts. What might be even cooler is a monster.com style listing. Where people can post their skills and locations, and others can search the database. I'd be willing to give it a crack on the programming side if it's something Chris thinks would be cool.

I think titanium's idea is a better one. There's already the classified's and they aren't used a whole lot as it is, so why split it up into more categories? A searable database on the other hand would make it easy to search and find exactly what you need. No going through a page or two before you find something (that is, if someone posted in there in the first place). A database would allow you to say what you can do one time, and that's it. Then people can find you easy based on that.

I agree with helio and titanium. The classifieds section serves the purpose for the points you made in you're poll, and a database would be quite useful in my opinion. However, Chris is busy as it is trying to handle working on a feature, collecting the regular submissions and putting together the contest, so it could be awhile before anything like this happens.

A search engine would be a useful tool, but that won't really help the issue, what you need is to encourage people to talk about those discussions, not add a search engine to an already water downed system known as the classifieds.

Let's say someone happens to stroll into these forums for the first time and just so happens to have the desire to act in films and he lives in a small town somewhere in Utah. At the same time a student director is looking to cast in his home town but theres a problem, actors in his small town somewhere in Utah are scarce and there really isn't any material to find them. So, as the actor scrolls through the list of topics, along with the director, the actor see's topics on directing films and a film director's classifeied but nothing that reminds him that he could act in these films, so he moves on. And that poor student director in that deserted town lost his only hope to find an actor hence his little brother staring in his film(that is if he has family).

Imagine that same scenerio but for composers and crew members. Yeah your right, you already have it in the classifieds, but then again it's really a smorgasbord of topics, if you think those suggestions should just be lumped up together into some smorgasbord called the classifieds then I think your in the wrong field of work.

That's just my two cents, if you are happy with the classifieds then fine with me, I was just trying to make your life a whole lot easier.

As directors, I would consider this a high priority in your process in making films.

Yeah, yeah, I see, but there's almost nothing IN the classifieds section. True, it might pick up if this idea was carried out.

What would be really good is if this small town actor from Utah could go to a separate section of the site (not in the forums), enter his location, age, description, and skills (lets say acting, improv and tap-dancing) into a database and also search for projects needing people like him in various states.

The advantage of this is that you could limit the results to only actors or movies which meet your criteria and which are in your area. No wading through forums hoping people used good subjects and not things like "HELP LOLOL URGENT"


That simple program (simple to use, not to write) could become HUGE in the student film world.

Wow titanium, THAT sounds like a really great idea. I would be all for trying to get something like that up on the site.

Yeah! It would totally rock! I know I could program in in PHP - but it would be tough.

Hey I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm all for it, that is until you establish this site a site where actors can come to. Great idea but it's like 10 steps ahead of it's time. So not a great idea at the moment.

You have to understand, these people looking for these jobs are going to want it easy just as you directors want it to be easy. But hey, I guess you guys aren't getting what I'm saying so I'll just leave it up to you all to figure it out from all angles. After all, you guys are directors and you probably know all these things anyway...I hope.

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After all, you guys are directors and you probably know all these things anyway...I hope.

Haha.... *cough* yeah, we do