Category: Meetings

 

Tuesday 11th October 

Where are we at?

This week, we met up at the Shed to keep the ball rolling and allow time to check how everyone had been getting on with the project. First of all, we rearranged the social media photo shoot for Friday 14^th @ 11.30am, in order to add content to the sites and give the company a professional edge. We discussed promotion videos, film festivals, fundraising campaigns and costumes designs, although ideas are still working progress due to the stage we are at.

Our first meeting with Mikey is to take place tomorrow @ 4.30pm, this will be a chance for us sound guys to meet with the media student’s tutor and gather expectations, as well as progress and development.

Other than that, not too much to report, just the continuation of research and planning for the film.

 

Friday 7th October

Allocating Roles

It was soon becoming clear for this project that as a Sound Team, we must delegate roles to each person in order to add more organization, preparation and efficiency to the project. Therefore, in this meeting we came up with a solution to our roles dilemma – originally we had planned to be as flexible as possible, allowing each member of the team experience within each role as we are still learning our trade. To see the outcome of this meeting, please follow this link and find the ‘Roles’ subheading.

 

Wednesday 5th October

Organising Meetings and Schedules

As a film crew, we decided upon having weekly meetings to ensure productivity, improve communication and collaboration and bring up any issues that were easier to discuss in person than through Messenger.

Hannah had begun to create a timescale of events for the project:
October 29^th – rough start date to begin shooting
November 3-17^th – Total filming schedule
November 18^th – Edit for the film begins
December 2^nd – Sound Team receive final picture lock and start work
December 16^th – Hand in @ 4pm

This was a rough draft, not set-in-stone, and we all agreed upon these dates. This allowed us approximately two weeks to complete the soundtrack for the film and preparation to book time working in the Sound Theatre.

We also arranged the time and place of meetings with Mikey Murray, the tutor who is overseeing our project. On top of this, we additionally organized a time for a professional photo shoot in order to create a ‘Meet the Team’-type post for Facebook. Unfortunately, the studio was double booked and we had to rearrange.

The objectives for the upcoming week were to continue researching and rearrange the photo shoot.

 

Welcome!

Cognition is a Short Film created by Viewfinder Productions, a mix of Audio and Media Production students at the University of Lincoln. Cognition tells the story of a young woman called Susan trying to find a solution for her troubles and herself. Being a short psychological thriller, the films includes themes of rational madness and paranoia.

If you would like to support our team, please follow the link below to kickstarter. We are running a short campaign, hoping to raise £600 to allow the film to be improved with paid actors, equipment and location.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/889434533/cognition-short-film

Additionally, if you would like to receive regular updates from the team be sure to find us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

 

Wednesday 21st September

Second Group Meeting

After a long Summer, the group met at the University’s library, 1pm, in order to meet Jamie for the first time – who was unfortunately unable to attend the first meeting – and have a general discussion about the project, ideas, how the research went and what our tasks were for the next meeting.

 

The deadlines set by Hannah over Summer were missed by some, although everyone had a viable reason and agreed to improve upon this going forward. Lauren explained research and progress that had been made, such as the organization of auditions, location scouting and fundraising. As well as this, she was on the fourth draft of the script and welcome to any ideas or improvements the rest of the team had after reading through it previously.

 

The team agreed to continue their research as we waited to be assigned a tutor, which would then allow us the go-ahead with the script, location and such like.