Present: MJ, JANE!, Chris, Peter, Willem, Katya, Cara
AAAAAAAAAAAALL THE CRABSTICKS!
We had a recap of Grain Media happenings. I’m not going
through it again. End of.
We speculated about What If Disney phoned (e.g. what should
we do when we get into proper collaborations as opposed to getting someone do
to something for our film)
Cara: “...well, I would be like DISNEY!!” But really, the
answer is ask sensible questions like “Who has rights to what?”and be careful...
Next topic was distribution of Grain Media films. Yeeah, I
know, I thought it was all over too. Oh well! First, we have fine-tuning –
teeeeeeensie likle bits of editing to polish it off. Then 150 DVDs will need to
be made. Cara will do it, or give it to someone Chris mentioned to do. We’re not
releasing it online yet. The sleeve for the DVD also needs to be done. Plus a
leaflet, with a paragraph on the initial research, one on Maddrim, one on the drama
group and one on the documentary group + the sleeve. We also have a screening:
on 19th. See fb for details.
Then there was Human Sealz...HAHAHAHAA. This was suggested
as a Hansel of Film film. HAHAHAHAHA. If you don’t know about Human Sealz, look
it up online, then all will be revealed (it’s basically a made-in-a-day short
that was done last year when the Kermode children were up, but, yeah, you
should watch it.)
After that we considered the Island Idea that cropped up
sometime when I was away. In speaking about this, we discovered Chris’ phobia:
“And also I’m scared of birds. MANY BIRDS. MANY BIRDS. I got trapped by a sea
of birds and I thought I was going to die.” You really shouldn’t be living on
Shetland then Chris, or trying to get to an island WITH BIRDS for a film idea.
Marjolein is determined to cut Take 5 to 5 mins for Hansel
of Film too. Finally – a “New Maddrim” entry (as opposed to “Old Maddrim”. Mwahaha.
)
Willem had the idea of making sock puppet music videos to
take the mickey of real ones done by Lady GaGa etc. I really like this idea,
but I feel that someone got carried away when they suggested that we dress up
in sleeping bags as giant sock puppets, and somehow acquire giant googly eyes
to do the job. This could be done without too much hassle, I think, and so we’d
hopefully get it done quickly. Hopefully we’ll discuss it better rather than
letting it get sucked into to black-hole of film ideas like some of our other
ideas.
There’s also the Voar Redd Up film. Again, my notes direct
me to fb.
We also came up with an idea that revolved around Chris’
wolf-face jumper. The plot:
A new clothes shop opens, and it only sells clothing with
animal motifs.
Someone buys the wolf jumper
They gradually start taking on wolfish characteristics: “Cup
of tea?” “Naooooooo!”
Ends with the owner of the shop going on a hunting spree
after all his “animals”...
As for special member Jane. We’re not getting her balls. Not
one out of the 400. Do not worry if you don’t get the reference. No biggie.
These minutes are all deadly serious (-_-)
Theeen we talked about Joe’s mini-series. He still manages
to “steer it back” even when he’s not at meetings – he phoned and through
loudspeaker told us to stop getting distracted. Anyway, this idea will probably
be for after Hansel.
Aaand back to the Island film. We mentioned the dangers of
taking a camera to a different place to shoot the film, where there’s a bog “It
just gets into the peat and goes down and down and down....”(Chris: clap clap
clap!) “and there’s two geese that life there.”(Chris: SAD FACE of DISTRESS)
I want blood and dancing. I can’t remember who said this,
but meh. It sounds like a Lord Of The Flies musical. EUUUUGH. No ta.
After the meeting, I realised that we forgot to speak about
lots of important things – like Andy’s radio show, and the Alternative universe
ideas. We did awesome for Grain Media, so fingers crossed we raise our game.
Katya
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