{"id":6949,"date":"2018-07-07T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2018-09-20T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:53:43","slug":"getting-out-of-the-zone-with-my-first-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/getting-out-of-the-zone-with-my-first-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Out of the Zone with My First Feature Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\/director William Lu gave the guest talk at the 77nd <a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/salon\/\">FWD:labs Salon<\/a>. &#8220;Getting Out of the Zone with My First Feature Film&#8221; covers picking the creative team, crafting a solid distribution strategy, and figuring out your end game from the start.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Getting Out of the Zone with My First Feature Film\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RTwjpjnMdNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About the Speaker<\/p>\n<p>William Lu attended the graduate film conservatory at Florida State University where he received his MFA in Film and Television Production. He spent three years at Herzog &#038; Company where he produced content for clients like Disney, Paramount, Dreamworks and Sony Pictures. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Armed with a Camera Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, he wrote and directed Asian Task Force, a half-hour mock pilot that paid homage to many of his favorite 80&#8217;s television series. In 2009, William made the transition to new media, working as post supervisor at Machinima on their Terminator: Salvation original web series. <\/p>\n<p>He was subsequently hired at Maker Studios, where he produced content for their gaming vertical. In 2012, he switched to freelance producing, serving as a co-producer for Rosanna Pansino&#8217;s &#8220;Nerdy Nummies&#8221; blockbuster YouTube series while simultaneously developing feature content that he could later direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\/director William Lu gave the guest talk at the 77nd FWD:labs Salon. &#8220;Getting Out of the Zone with My First Feature Film&#8221; covers picking the creative team, crafting a solid distribution strategy, and figuring out your end game from the start. About the Speaker William Lu attended the graduate film conservatory at Florida State University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-fwdlabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}