Minutes 16/01/12

Present: MJ, Joe, Amy, Katya, Gary (a newbie!), Shaela, Roseanne, Cara, Ceileidh, Craig, Daniel, Willem, Peter, Martha, Ceidiog, Chloe W

1. Money was squared for memberships – I, after at least two years or so, am now an official Maddrimer :D
2. Talk about Tees. Marjolein has offered to get us a catalogue from the company that did her university hoodies, range including sweatshirts and, (this could be exciting)...polo shirts. I’d stick with hoodies, but hey – whatever floats your boat. The cost will depend on the fancy-ness as optional features are: embroidered crest, name, year, customised back, logo. An example being: Hoodie + embroidered logo + name + date + other logo + print (on back?)= £22.Though we’d have to agree on the logo (JUICE GUY! You see where my loyalties lie) and not make it too complex.
3. Grain Media Workshop – well, it’s been and I have separate notes.
4. Up Helly Aa is approaching , flaming brands and all. Today at our meeting (23^rd), we should have a guest to discuss helping to film with this. Cara and I went to a meeting earlier to get some info about it and we want to get involved – whattabout you? They’ve got top-notch equipment we can have a go with *TRICASTER * *iphones to interlink between the team* , and our involvement depends on what people are willing to help with – whether it be filming, managing video feeds, operating sound, interviewing the public...etc.
5. Oh god – it’s that time of the minutes where I write about The Last Viking, again, and say once more how I should get something done. There may be some progress on acquisitioning a boat; MJ had a good suggestion involving a cardboard boat and some sneaky trickery. Also – thoughts for Daniel Aquilina as Viking? Hmm..we seem to be using the pk group A LOT these days.
6.   Bringing me swiftly on to the ninja film. Luke Aquilina has valiantly volunteered to be our main ninja, and our next scene in mind is the morning sequence. We can use MJ’s brother’s kitchen (which is in toon – 1 up on convenience) and the AHS.
7. YouChoose funding. This can give us £1000-£1500...and we could spend it on a Maddrim Trip Away! We could go sometime between June 20^th and July 1^st (Edinburgh Festival), and use the Shetland Card

The Shetland Card:

“oh, we’re disadvantaged young people who are unable to attain our full potential due to the fact we live on what can only be better described as a small rock)”

Note – all of the above is true.

AYE!

The deadline for funding is Feb 3^rd, and for a trip the adult:child ratio must be 1:8. And we should get the train from the Deen, not the bus. Buses are messy (and we don’t have trains)
       8. Our current structure of BRAINSTORM...WORKSHOP...BRAINSTORM...and continue seems to be working well, so we’ll stick with it. Next workshops could be:

Editing

Sound

Animation (stop motion)

Lighting

Improv

Willem has said he would be able to take one-on-one on Thursdays sometime. Cheers!

And MJ is supposed to send me a link to a film called “The Wizard of Speed and Time”.

[LINK TO APPEAR HERE]
or perhaps here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yW4_376GM

        9. AOB

a)      The recurring idea of having Alternative Universe teensy shorts (a.k.a 5 secs long) was brought to light: A World Without Osteoporosis – Old ladies rollerblading; A World Where Onion Juice Induces Laugher  - speaks for itself really; A World Where Dodgeball is Unfair – something involving the substitution of dodgeballs for exercise balls...and so on. I’ve just had an idea (don’t look too surprised now).

My Idea is that these would be a brilliant way to do a storyboarding workshop. If anyone was interested. Hardly the stuff of genius, but it might be useful.

b)      Film Club! After Cara’s horror when she learned I hadn’t heard of Scott Pilgrim, I’d like this to happen more than before. Don’t wanna feel like I’m missin’ out, ya know? We need to find out if there’s a way to do this without paying a licence or not.

c)       MJ has been requested to ask us if we’re willing to help with a few minutes long film about the NHS. We might get paid, which is attractive. Although, we are busy peoples, so Willem might take it up in his own time instead.

d)      And now we come to the ideas for future films. But, as we don’t want spoilers (and my minutes are getting real long now) I’ll not put them here. Instead, a FLASH NEWS UPDATE: In case you didn’t know, the inaptly titled “Improv Film” is now, more appropriately,  called “Take 5”

See you all tonight!

Katya

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