Category: Meetings

 

Tuesday 1st November

Arrangements

The main subject on today’s agenda was preparing for the shoot. The crew have all confirmed the dates of 14-16th November, so we are now organising our schedules around this. We have agreed to start emptying the location next week over the Wed-Fri – the main issue here being the large double bed which takes up half of the room. Additionally, we discussed props and dressing the set, Hannah and Lauren are going shopping next week to see what they can find.

Outcomes of the meeting were to continue researching, prepare for the shoot in our individual areas and keep the diaries open for dressing the set next week.

 

Tuesday 25th October

Filming Dates

The most important discussion to come out of this week’s meeting was the filming dates. While looking over our schedules, Hannah suggested a three-day shoot 9-11 November would be best for organisation, while the set would be dressed the week before. This led us to booking out all the equipment needed for the shoot, as well as organising a location scout for Friday.

Apart from this there was not too much to discuss. A composer had got in touch with Hannah but is asking for a fee we simply cannot pay. We also discussed other fundraising ideas – another film group are putting on a quiz night at the Shed – and Hannah gave us positive feedback with our research.

The outcomes were to book the equipment, get prepared for the location scout on Friday and keep researching.

 

Friday 21st October 

Planning Ahead

After the tutorial meeting with David, the Sound Team met up to discuss next week’s work. First of all, after the meeting on Tuesday we discussed research that Hannah had set us. Unfortunately, some was slightly irrelevant to us which was no fault of Hannah’s, instead we suggested the research we would do and tailor her suggestions to this (Hannah’s set research were starting-blocks anyway). Therefore, we agreed for Rob to continue his Location Sound research as he has done the most at this stage in time, focussing primarily on boom techniques to start with. Dan agreed to take Microphones. Which mics we will choose to use and why. Finally, I am to look at Lauren’s director notes on sound and use research on film sound to suggest creative ways to use music, and certain license free music that we could use.

Succeeding this, we organised when we would work on what project the following week. As it stands, Rob, Dan and myself are working on three films in Semester A. This includes Location and Post for Cognition, Post for Agriculture, a film made by our editor Tom over the Summer, and Callback, a film directed by Molly Naylor. Matt North got in touch with David for help on this and we agreed to support him. For this project we are in charge of sourcing realistic ambience and atmos tracks, as well as providing the necessary Foley for the film.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday if necessary we have planned to work on Callback, as Matt has set several deadlines for us to follow. Thereafter, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we shall continue work on Agroculture for Tom. Additionally, we assigned Agroculture roles:

Sam + Dan = Dialogue
Rob + whoever is not working on Dialogue that particular day = Foley + Foley Mix
whoever is not working on the Dialogue Mix = SFX + SFX Mix
Final Mix = Complete Team.

 

Tuesday 18th October

Regular Updates with the Film Crew

As with every week, the film crew attended a weekly meeting to discuss progress and development with the project. Items on the agenda included: The need for Hannah to write the Sound Team an extended, professional brief for our module (which can be viewed here, under Requirements), our blog research to be put onto a separate word document for the media student’s project file, the idea of creating a 15-30 second title sequence for the film and where Tom would complete the edit.

Additionally, during the morning prior to this meeting, Rob, Lauren, Hannah and Jamie went on a location scout to the Drill Hall as they had a potential space for us to shoot the film in. I have created a detailed post which can be found here.

Other than that, it was continuation of research while the team finalised the script and kept searching for locations and actors.

 

Wednesday 12th October 

Meeting Mikey

Today was our first meeting with Mikey Murray, as a total film crew including the sound team. Discussion began with the script and Mikey voiced his own opinion on it so far. He suggested that it felt like a pilot and as there was no real climax it was an introduction for something much bigger set up for later. He believed that the opening flashback scene was perhaps unnecessary, as well as one of the characters and some of the dialogue. This directed the conversation towards the meaning and significance of the film, what was the message, what is trying to be said about the characters, and the world above them. This was something that we need to develop.

After this, we discussed logistics of film, such as how much money we would need to raise through Kickstarter (£1000-1500), who we would contact for casting (Phil Stevens as he is a local filmmaker with many networks – Mikey felt that he could not help as much as he casts actors from Scotland for the majority of the time), where the location would be and how we would dress the set, and finally the promotional video. However, Mikey suggested that the most important element to be working on at this stage is the script, once this is solid and as perfect as can be, actors should follow, as with the promo videos and Kickstarter campaign.

It was a pleasure to meet Mikey and all round a very productive meeting, distinctly displaying what we needed to work on next.

 
Script discussions in full swing!