London Screenwriters Festival 2011: Day 3

I'm awake at 5am. 5. A. M. And my watch is telling the correct time. I blogged Day 2 at 1.30am, for god's sake. What is wrong with me? I suspect it's the curry and the beer, and the general adrenaline buzz of being around such great screenwriting folk. Whatever the case, I'm awake.

Anyways, I don't feel too bad, and I watch the repeat of Match of the Day to keep me going 'till brekkie. I'm all bright eyed and bushy tailed, and make it to the festival just after 9am. I'm the first in the green room, and all seems quiet enough, but there's plenty of fresh coffe and I get stuck in.

The first session I attend is 'Hollywood Pitching' with David Reynolds (Pixar), Jonathan Newman (Foster) and Stuart Hazeldine (Exam). It's a lively, funny and informative session, full of tips on pitching in general, regardless of whether it's Hollywood or not.

Plenty of networking opportunities between sessions, and I enjoy an early lunch with Philip Shelley, Roland Moore, Lawrence Timms and Evan Leighton Davis, and grab some quick hellos with new friends.

After lunch, it's straight to the 'You're Commissioned!' panel (smoothly hosted by Jan Gilbert) with Roland Moore and Red Planet's own Robert Thorogood where they share their experience of creating and writing their own series, the lucky bastards. It all seems so simple. Well, um, not really. But it is possible! At the end of the session, I do a sneaky announcement of the impending launch of this year's Red Planet Prize (full details next week!).

I take it easy for a while, allowing myself some sugar to keep me awake, and then it's to the main stage for my final session (and the last of the fest) about 'Your Script and The 20 Most Common Pitfalls'. Hey, I started the festival on the main stage hosting a session and now I'm finishing it on the main stage as part of a panel. Now THAT'S the Chicago way. Or something.

It's a cracking panel that includes Paul Andrew Williams, Daniel Eckhart, Evan Leighton Davis and Steven Russell. We do a broad chat on some common mistakes, covering plenty of ground between dodgy creative choices in a script to equally dodgy approach tactics when you're trying to get a producer to read your work. There's some really good questions from the audience, too. Very enjoyable.

The discussion ends, and everyone gathers for the final send-off from festival guru Chris Jones. Sadly, I don't have time to stick around, and I head for Waterloo to get the train home (with Dom 'Schmoozer Is My Middle Name' Carver for company).

My phone is still playing silly buggers with its Bluetooth so, with muchos regret, I have no photos to share. My favourite photo of the festival is on Tim's iPhone, where he happily poses with his new agent Janice Day. But I'll let him fill in the details there.

HUGE thanks, and hats off, to Chris and his festival team for staging a terrific event; really slick, friendly and well-organised. Let's hope the festival becomes a firm fixture in the screenwriting calendar for many a year to come. As for now, time to go offline, go to bed, and tomorrow - get writing.

London Screenwriters Festival 2011: Day 2

Had to endure truly appalling weather on my way to the train on Thursday night. So much so that once I hit the nation's capital, I had to buy a new pair of shoes to avoid walking around the whole weekend with squelching feet.

On Friday, Day 1 (keep up, yeah?), I had dutifully broken in these substitute shoes (£25, JD Sports, BARGAIN) by shlepping around Regent's College and Maryleborne High Street, happily teasing fellow delegates with the promise of delicious kebabs.

Saturday morning, then. Day 2 of the Screenwriters Festival. I'm ready to rock. That is, I'm ready to write! Instead of going directly to the mother ship, I stay put at my hotel, trying to make up for a few hours of work that the shenanigans of Thursday and Friday sucked up.

Despite being mildly hungover and not having much sleep, I have a Full English and load up the laptop. I put the #LondonSWF on standby to keep me up-to-date on anything that I might miss, and I get cracking on my current rewrite. Three hours later, and I've done solid writing work, and am ready to join the throng.

First up, at 2pm, 'Don't Wait to Be Discovered' by Christian Routh. Here, Mr Routh laid down his key tips about sales and marketing, and what a writer might need to consider when packaging or developing a script. Loglines, taglines, synopses, teaser trailers, etc. Useful stuff all round.

A brief networking break followed, and I was all set to attend 'Writing Fantastical TV' with Messrs Arnopp et al, until a unexpected twist of fate right at the last moment found me at the 'Failure to Launch' session, about why the first ten pages of your script are crucial. This had some golden nuggets of wisdom and advice, which was suitably packed-out in the main hall.

The subtext to the whole day though was 'FREE BAR' and this affected many people's choices of attending the final sessions of the day. Unsurprisingly, a good handful of delegates (me included) formed a random queue for the free bar that was being lined up by the Wellcome Trust at 6pm. There was a sudden scrum of orders, and poof, just like Keyser Soze, the free bar was gone, just like that. Cheers!

Lots of networking and good banter available here, and I finally get to catch up with Robert Thorogood, writer of Death in Paradise (via Red Planet Prize!), who I literally haven't seen since we had one too many cosmopolitans at Working Title's Christmas party in 2007.

By 9pm, with beer flowing, I need me some food. Luckily, Tim Clague agrees, and we rope in writing pal Rudolf Kremers for a curry down the road. It turns out the to be the BEST CURRY IN THE WORLD, no word of a lie. Tim's photo proof:

As I digest, I try to programme my new digital wristwatch (seen above) to accommodate the clocks going back but I get myself into a muddle, and suddenly, by my reckoning, it's 8pm. Tim and Rudolf mock me for my pathetic understanding of time, and we head for our hotels.

On my way back, I bump into fellow writing Corkman, Brian McEvilly, who tries to tease me into a local pub where a merry band of screenwriting delegates are enjoying a nightcap. Do I accept? HELLYES. Hey, you only live once you know, 8pm or not. One pint later and the barmaid says it's midnight and we have to go. MY WATCH SAYS IT'S 9PM, SHE HASN'T A CLUE, HAHAHAHAHA!

I fix my watch to the right time and return to my hotel, having a good chinwag with punk-haired Sean Kelly on the way (not Irish, or Cork, as far as I know).

For some reason, my WiFi service at the hotel is improved but my Bluetooth on my phone isn't working, so I can't update my photos of the day/evening. Instead, I can only regale you with photos stolen from Tim's Facebook. What time is it again?

(Me and an empty tub of yoghurt. It was raspberry.)

(I share an HILARIOUS joke-text with Chris Hill but he remains unmoved)

London Screenwriters Festival 2011: Day 1

The second London Screenwriters Festival got underway with a lot of style today. Here's what I did:

10:30am I'm hosting the first session of the day, after the keynote speech. The first session! And it's in the main hall! No pressure, then. Hey, pressure's for tyres. OK, so I'm a bit nervous.

I've never actually moderated a panel before and the line-up's pretty impressive: Martin Gooch, Vadim Jean, Berni Corbett and Chris Hill. We're there to deliver 50 tips about breaking into the business. It's officially 'Another 50 tips', as they had a similar session last year, but they only got through around 7 tips and had a general chat.

I'm determined to get through 50 tips, so, with the help of my fellow panellists, I've compiled a list beforehand so that the audience get bang for their buck (list available as handout via the festival). Tim bets me a tenner that we won't get through all 50 tips. We get through around 40, which is pretty good going, but the chat doesn't feel like a dull list checkpoint. I think it went OK. I officially brand it THE BEST SESSION OF THE FESTIVAL, mainly because it's the first session, and there's no other session to compare it to yet, but hey, whatevs.

We have a scriptchat afterward with a few eager scribes who have questions, and then it's lunch already. I bulk up on the salad bar. It's this kind of detail that keeps you glued to the blog, I know.

(Tim tweets for @UKscriptwriters!)

After lunch, it's straight to the cinema for a Q&A with Edgar Wright, a last minute addition to the schedule. Edgar is easygoing, charming and candid, and gives good detail about how his career started, how it developed and how he's got to Hollywood.

(Photo of bald man with hat, watching Chris Jones & Edgar Wright)

The next Q&A, in the main hall, is with Joe Cornish, the perfect sequel to Edgar's Spaced-out chat. Joe is equally easygoing, charming and candid, and gives good detail about how he wrote Attack the Block, and what it was like writing for Spielberg (for TinTin, which he wrote with Edgar). The key theme that I take away from both their talks, however, is the VALUE OF RESEARCH, and how it can inform everything, even the most mundane or trivial research topics.

(Joe Cornish hides his pet hamster inside his jacket before the Q&A begins)

There are half hour gaps in between each session, which gives everyone plenty of time to network, get caffeinated or take time-out, or all three.

Tim's hosting a talk about writing for games, so I head along to that with Chris Hill, and we enjoy the wit and wisdom of Tim's vastly experienced panel.

(Tim finally figures out what hashtags are for on Twitter)

Time for the bar! After a couple of sherberts, I duck out for a kebab on Maryleborne High Street - delicious! - but even though I'm only gone for a half an hour, the bar crowd has significantly thinned-out on my return. Me, Chris Hill, Alli Parker and Andy Conway stick around till closing, and are the last to leave the bar. We're, like, so not tired, so we grab a nightcap on Maryleborne High Street (although we lose Alli along the way). I pitch Chris and Andy the delights of my earlier kebab and now they want a piece of the action but when we follow the trail, the kebab shop's just closing up. Denied!

There you have it. A terrific day of screenwriting buzz, and in great company with new and familiar faces. Roll on day two!

Prices Will Continue Declining: VHDA Presentation on Conditions in the Charlottesville Area Housing Market

Barry Merchant, the senior economist for the Virginia Housing Development Authority, made his annual trip and offered an update on housing and economic conditions to the CAAR.

Fascinating presentation covering headwinds to the economy, to mortgage lending, and the difficulties facing homebuyers and sellers.

The upshot:  Prices are still declining.  Sellers need to keep this in mind when listing

Third Quarter 2011 Median Home Prices In Virginia

The Charlottesville / Albemarle MSA is included for these purposes by the Virginia Association of Realtors in "Central Valley."  Note: Micromarkets (neighborhoods, areas) vary considerably; this is an aggregated view as part of the association's marketing materials.

And the prices, which include all property types (detached house, condo, townhouse).

Images copyright VAR.

Congress Has A 9% Approval Rating

A new poll by NYT/CBS finds a shockingly low approval and deep distrust of the government by Americans.

Now You Can Buy a Home For As Little As $100 Dollars in 28 States...But Not Virginia

No kidding.  Another genius idea from the Housing and Urban Development Administration (HUD) to help banks offload the depreciating assets they don't want.  The US GOV will waive the 3.5% downpayment, and the 3% closing costs.  Virginia is excluded because it is a "recourse" state.  Read all about it.

Expected to ReFi 1 Million Mortgage Holders, What's the Impact of the Revised HARP?

A couple hundred bucks a month back in the home debtors' pockets on a $200k mortgage with rates lowered from 6-7% to 4%.   Is that going to help the housing market?  No.  Is that going to help the economy?  Not really.  And....

Details: The Revised "Home Affordable Refinance Program" Can Lower Monthly Payments For Homes Now Worth Less Than Purchase Price

Paid $750k for a house now worth $589K?  The revised HARP may help underwater homeowners, if the mortgage is owned or backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, with limited costs/fees to the home-debtor.  

Read the Federal Housing Finance Administration PDF.   And streamlined details of the plan are  in the embed, below.

Related: Previous Obama Admin Housing Programs Promised Aid to Millions of

London Screenwriters Festival 2011

Who's going to the London Screenwriters Festival this year? I'll be there for the whole weekend (The. Whole. Weekend. *giddy laugh*) and will be talking on a few panels, too, namely: Another 50 Ways Into The Biz, 20 Common Pitfalls of Scripts and possibly one or two others yet to be finalised, plus news on this year's Red Planet Prize. We'll also try to grab a few soundbites and/or interviews for the UK Scriptwriters podcast. It's all kicking off!

The schedule is shaping up HERE, and it all looks to be bigger and better than last year. If you're thinking of going but still haven't bought your ticket, then hurry up as it's 95% sold out. Get £30 off with discount code SCRIPTWRITINGUK (all caps). See you at t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶r̶ the various inspiring and informative sessions!

President Obama to Announce New Re-Fi Program For Those Who Owe More Than House Is Worth

The POTUS will be in Las Vegas from 11am - 3pm PDT, where he is expected to discuss details.  Nearly 30% of Virginia mortgage holders are in negative equity, and this kind of program could help them refinance -- if they choose to stay in their homes.

Related: The ProPublica guide to failed save-the-housing-market programs from the Obama Admin.

Whose Responsibility Is It to Disclose the Proposed Western Bypass In Albemarle County? And How Will Today's Sellers Market Their Homes?

Updated Nov. 1, Nov. 2.

The Western Bypass has been in the works for decades, went dormant in 2002, but now looks like it will be built.  Charlottesville Tomorrow has a rendition of the 6.2 mile road. 

Though the completion date would be years from now, many homes could be impacted.  It's already influencing buy / sell decisions in this area.  That is, the proposed Western Bypass is impacting

The Nest Realty Group Third Quarter Report

The Q3 Nest report is more comprehensive, and presents a more realistic view of this market, than the recent regional Q3 CAAR report.  

Prices are still dropping.  Due to lower prices, however, sales numbers in the City of C'ville popped up over the disastrous 2010 Third Quarter, which saw a national plunge in purchases due to expiration of the Homebuyer Tax Credt.

Related
Where's the Recovery

The Home As "Trapped Asset"

Everybody needs a place to live, but some people would rather rent money from a bank than rent a house or an apartment from a landlord.  "Owning" obviously isn't for everybody.  And those who want to tie up their money in a "trapped asset" should do it with eyes wide open. 

Short Film Festival Strategy

Someone asked me about what kind of festival strategy you should have once you have a short film in the can, so here are a few thoughts on that very subject. But first, here's a photo of me directing a few trees on the set of my award-winning short film Origin. Look how I get them inspired to act!

You can never start too early with a festival strategy. It helps to know what kind of festivals you have in mind while you're prepping the script, never mind post-production.

So, the first consideration is: what type of film is my short? Of course, we all think our films are great, or will be great, but the answer needs to come with cold perspective and slicing honesty.

For example, is it, or will it be, a perfectly well-made short that's decent and presentable but not particularly original/distinctive with its idea, story or execution (the majority of short films). If a short falls into that category, then you can plan to go far and wide with the festival submission, load up your details on Withoutabox and cry as your credit card gets stung as quickly as a swarm of a thousand bees pouncing on your sensitive skin.

If you've got a short that you genuinely, GENUINELY, think is something special, then you can plan to be a bit more ambitious. For example, hold out for the BIG festivals that only accept a short if it receives its world premiere at its festival, like Cannes (NOT Short Film Corner, any schlub can upload a film there), Edinburgh (although I think their premiere rules have changed), Sundance (who, surprisingly, don't have premiere rules, but they are big) etc. The downside of this is WAITING for these festivals to come around (you could have your film ready, essentially doing nothing while you wait for the likely rejection), and you've wasted valuable time in your short film's festival lifespan (typically around 18 months after your film is finished).

Most filmmakers think they have a short film that falls somewhere between the first category (a decent short) and the latter category (this will win an Oscar!!). This pushes you to submit to the bigger festivals but also hit the well-established (Raindance, London Short Film Festival etc). A lot of filmmakers get disappointed and disillusioned when they can't get in to any of these (competition is FIERCE with a capital FIERCE), and end up having to be content by getting into some local film festival being held by a bunch of students in a barn.

It's good to be ambitious with submitting your short to big festivals, especially if you really believe in your film, but be realistic, and go for the well-established and boutique festivals (lots of smaller but well-respected festivals around, like Brancharge and Berlin British Shorts).

It all depends on how much budget you have for festival submission, and if your strategy matches your funds. Sending it to the big festivals, and as many as you can find, will cost a lot of money; not to mention the DVD duplication and promotional materials. Try to allocate a budget now so you know you have the money to go for the festivals you want, when the time comes. The submission/acceptance ratio goes something like 1 festival entry to 6 festival rejections. So that's a slog of seven submissions before you get into just one! And the cycle continues!

For Origin, I had such a nightmare trying to finish the film that it sucked up all my resources. When it came to festival submission, I could only afford a good handful, and naturally I went for the big ones. I took a chance and submitted it to other festivals, and I thought whatever festival came first got the premiere (which was at Brancharge).

I would have loved to have had wider festival exposure but I simply ran out of funds and energy (festival submission is exhausting and demoralising). On the plus side, there are well-respected festivals that are FREE to enter, so that's good, but a bit hit and miss.

While getting your film into a festival is exciting and a great boost of confidence, the actual experience of the festival can be quite flat and disappointing, as the audience is either full of the other short filmmakers in your line-up, or worse, the screening is barely attended. But if your film gets nominated or wins something, then that's the real kicker to help promote your film to execs and the industry at large.

For much more information, check out Film Festival Secrets. There's also a great download from Scottish Screen called 'I've Made a Short, Now What?' and Chris Jones has an excellent online seminar, which is very practical and inspirational (I did it before I started Origin).

Also, the British Council help short filmmakers by submitting the film to various festivals on your behalf. Of course, you have to apply, and they're quite picky, but the festivals they have lined-up usually qualify for BAFTA and Oscar consideration, so it's well worth a punt. If the British Council say no, you can always apply to the BAFTA/Oscar-credited festivals yourself, which is what you'll probably be doing anyway because, well, your film is special, right?

WSJ: Decline in Housing Inventory Won't Lead to Rise In Prices; CAAR Remains Hopeful Charlottesville Albemarle Area Market Is Different

Last week when the Third Quarter CAAR report came out, the big news was that there was a -7.3% year-over-year decline in home prices in the region.*   This is a large drop, and should be motivating sellers with equity to cut prices, since buyer traffic is declining, sales have declined and we have now entered the "slow" time of year.

Instead, what the CAAR narrative focused on, and what it got

Hanley Wood, Which Recently Profiled C'ville As "Healthy" Housing Market, Axes "Big Builder"

The WSJ reports, "With no meaningful housing recovery expected any time soon," the publisher Hanley Wood is shuttering an offshoot of Builder, "Big Builder" magazine, which "chronicled the housing frenzy and the worst downturn in decades."

Hanley Wood is the entity behind "Builder Online," which declared C'ville the '6th healthiest market in the US" based on its projections for building permits

1612 Grove Ave - C'ville Foreclosure Re-Listed For Sale At Market Price - $265k

Why is this foreclosure listed at market price?  Since the backyard abuts the 250 Bypass, some buyers would say it's actually listed above market price, enjoying as it does the passage of 40,000+ cars per day.

This property was Re-Po'd by the FHA in June for $133k.  Folks buy foreclosures because banks (or the government entity on which they've dumped their bad mortgages) slash prices, typically

#OccupyWallStreet - #OccupyCville

Below is the graph that shows shocking income inequality in the US: 1% v. 99%. Via MotherJones.  Many more charts and graphs are in the embed. 

The Rule of Hard Work

There are no shortcuts to success. If you want to progress in the world of screenwriting, you're going to have to put your head down and write. However, writing a script is just the basic essential. Now you have to pitch and hustle for work, and start writing a new script (or two). It's an endless and demanding cycle. It's bloody hard, and the constant rejections slice a dagger in your heart at every turn.

We're not really programmed to seek out difficult situations in our lives. The human condition prefers to take the path of least conflict so it's only natural to lean on books, courses, opportunities and technological devices to make our screenwriting lives easier. These sideshows of support are useful, of course. They provide some knowledge and inspiration, and sometimes even lead to work, but don't get sucked into embracing this milieu as the way to live your life.

Whenever people can't access the internet, they wail in anguish that they can't do any work (the recent Blackberry meltdown led to some people 'unable to function' as they couldn't message each other, or update Facebook, or whatever it was they needed to do, and some of these complaints from companies in the City!). This form of reliance on an external influence gives a false sense of importance to your personal working habits; a necessary distraction to maintain a decent display of being busy.

But how busy are you really being? Are you reading (and developing envy) about other people's luck rather than forging your own success through your own hard graft? Spending too much time online ostensibly networking but essentially not working? Or even seeking out blog posts like these to stir the screenwriting muse? If these questions strike a chord, then be brutally honest with yourself in terms of how productive you are with your writing habits and modes of procrastination. Change your routine accordingly. Write. Work. Repeat.

If you examine any person's success, there is one guaranteed element that helped them earn their place at the table: they worked extremely hard. Their sheer focus and grunt effort will far outweigh any slice of luck or favour that may have helped them along the way. Indeed, it's only through proactive endeavour that favours and opportunities arise ('the harder I work, the luckier I get', a fitting quote from Samuel Goldwyn, film producer). So, by all means embrace the technology or opportunities that may help you gain screenwriting success but there is no substitute for constant hard grind - not just to get ahead, but to stay ahead, too.

#OccupyCville is Formed

The C-Ville reports that a local branch has sprung up for the national #OccupyWallStreet movement.  See the #OccupyCville site and follow them on Twitter.  Sometimes, wishes come true. 

Wall Street Journal: How to Make a 'Lowball' Offer

Area prices are dropping like proverbial stones (see this and this).   But when buyers think prices are going to drop further, as many do in the Charlottesville Area due to lack of recovery plus high inventory and low sales, buyers price for tomorrow, not today.  National and local RE sales enter a slow period during Fall/Winter, and the WSJ has tips on how to go about making a lowball.  And one

CAAR 2011 3rd Quarter Report: In a Word, "Down." Prices Down, Sales Down, Inventory Down.

This post: What do "Active Inventory" and "Days on Market" mean for buyers and sellers?
Next post: How much have prices fallen in particular areas?  How much will they continue to fall?The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors  Third Quarter 2011 Report is for the region. Data can vary widely from the City, and County to County.  This report is an overview.

First, the 2011 basics compared

Wouldn't It Be Great if C'ville Has An "Occupy Wall Street" Welcome for President's Visit?

The POTUS will be bringing his campaign bus tour in support of the American Jobs Act 2011 to Charlottesville between October 17-19.

While Mr. Obama's "support" of Occupy Wall Street is admirable,  the administration's continued kow-towing to and bailing out of gigantic banks is demolishing the American citizenry (see this and this).  Sure, he inherited many of the problems: but the solutions are

This is Not a "Recovery" - US Median Income Has Plunged Since Recession "Ended"

Median income fell "only" 3.2% during the Recession--6.7% after, for a total of 9.8% in four years.   The numbers below (and see chart in embed) also help explain why 4% mortgage rates aren't motivating  home buyers.

This is Not a "Recovery" - 13.5+ Million Remain Unemployed as 58,000 New Jobs Added: September Unemployment Remains at 9.1%

You may have read the number "103,000" new jobs added to economy...but that was because the 48,000 no-longer-striking Verizon employees were re-added to the total.  They don't count as new jobs.

Chart via CalculatedRisk.
Click on image for larger image in new window.

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Awalnya Ray

Cara Mendaftar E-mail di Yahoo

Untuk membuat sebuah account e-mail di Yahoo sangatlah mudah. Layanan ini dapat digunakan oleh semua orang, baik yang telah memahami internet ataupun masih awam dengan internet.

Untuk membuat e-mail di Yahoo, langkah-langkahnya sebagai berikut:
Pertama ketikkan http://www.yahoo.com/ atau mail.yahoo.com di addres bar browsermu, lalu tekan tombol Go atau enter.


















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Cara Mendaftar E-mail di Hotmail

Selain e-mail gratis dari Gmail dan Yahoo, tidak ada salahnya juga memanfaatkan layanan e-mail gratis dari Hotmail. Untuk mendaftar sebuah akun di Hotmail tidak terlalu sulit bagi semua pengguna internet.

Langkah-langkah untuk membuat e-mail di Hotmail adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Aktifkan salah satu browser favoritmu, misalnya Internet Explorer.

2. Ketikkan di address bar alamat http://

After 6 Year Downturn "We Are Still Not Even In A Recovery Stage" - Local Realtors Weigh In On "Health" of Charlottesville Area Housing Market

PART 1 of 2 Posts - Assessing the "Health" of the Charlottesville Area Housing Market

The current "health" of the Charlottesville Area real estate market has been under discussion (more intense than usual) for the past few days, specifically the new construction market.  

A couple of local Realtors have posted about it: Roy Wheeler Realty CEO Michael Guthrie and RealCentralVA / Nest Realty

The Buy v. Rent Debate Continues

Crowd Dialogue

In the September 2011 UK Scriptwriters podcast, Tim and I discuss dialogue: the good, the bad and the exposition. I got this follow up Q, which might be of interest:

"If you are creating dialogue that reflects a crowd's uttering and you want the speakers to be heard but not seen can you put them under a title of 'Various' and how do you separate each speaker in the dialogue text?"

Yes, you could put 'Various', that would work, something like:

Or you could put 'Crowd' instead of 'Various'. Or space out each line to an individual crowd member:

As long as it's clear and doesn't disrupt the story, or the reader's understanding of what's happening, then you should be fine.

Charlottesville, VA's "The Daily Progress" Takes Opinion of Media Outlet For Builders, Presents It As If It Is "News"

An online media outlet for builders thinks that 2012 will be better than 2011 for the Charlottesville Area new construction market, despite declining sales, and has deemed this market "healthy."

Which is more disturbing, misleading, embarrassing, depressing?
1. That the US housing market is so troubled that the Charlottesville Area, which has seen a 16% year-over-year decline in new home sales

With Nat'l New Home Sales At 50 Year Low, Media Outlet for Builders Overlooks Charlottesville's 16% Annual Decline in Sales, Deems Market "Healthy"

"Builder Online" is a website for those in the construction business, run by Hanley Wood, which describes itself as "The No. 1 Media Company Covering Construction."

On Sunday, October 2, the regional daily newspaper, The Daily Progress, published a story that proclaimed the "health" of this area's market, based on Builder Online's opinion/projection that 2012 would see stronger permitting and

"Coal Tower Project" is Following Economics-Driven Local Trends: Scaling Down, Building Apartments Instead of Townhouses or Single Family Homes

Developers recognize where this market's heaviest future demand is: rentals. The younger generation(s), call them Gen Y or Millennials, are saddled with too much debt for most to buy a home,  and the short-term buyer has vanished from the Charlottesville Area market.  Nationally, the homeownership rate is dropping to a level not seen since the 1990's.  There are no major private sector jobs

Buyers and Sellers Can Now Track Realtors' Success Rates, Online

That is, buyers and sellers can do this in 15 Western real estate markets covered by online brokerage Redfin, which now has a "Scouting Report." This type of transparency will likely go national in coming years.  The NYT  gives an overview of the data.  There's a dogpile of responses from Realtors online, including a calm response from The Phoenix Real Estate Guy.  But this Portland, OR, agent is