Present: Ceileidh, Cara, Sanna, Craig, Chloe, Ceidiog, Marjolein,
Joe
Guests: Emma Perring, Lauren Peterson
So as we had special guests at Maddrim this week, we kicked off with the
traditional Name and Fact Game, huzzah!
Sadly, the majority of the facts were really REALLY depressing…
Then we moved onto the first item on the agenda, which was the poverty
research group and Maddrim’s possible involvement in one of their new
projects. Lauren and Emma outlined
their proposal, which is for Maddrim and others in the poverty group to attend
two weekend workshops in January and March, and in between these make a film
about the poverty research and the case studies, combining elements of drama and
retrospective documentary (ooooh).
This will have several benefits to Maddrim, including working with a
London-based production company, learning new styles of filming and BECOMING
SUPER FAMOUS (I assume) (Well, the film will be shown around Shetland and
possibly further a field) (Double OOOH).
One possible downside discussed was that it is a big time commitment, but
everyone at the meeting agreed that they would make the time for this project
(with the possible exception of Marjolein and Chloe, who may be leaving us in
the New Year… WHYYYY). Another downside discussed was that we would not have
full creative control. However, the
workshop plans include time to brainstorm ideas for the films, so we should not
end up making films we don’t want to.
YAY!
We need to get a number of people definitely interested by Christmas, so
remind me to do that! Joe, Katya or
I (me/Cara) will be attending planning meetings with Emma, Lauren and their
group, so will keep us updated, and there will be a contract drawn up so we know
exactly what we’re doing.
NEXT. Cara spoke briefly
about the Young Scot Handbook, which was given out to all first years last
week. It has a section about
Maddrim, and we’ve had one person already ask for more information, hooray for
potential new members! We’ve
decided to write back inviting them to the next meeting and to tell them a bit
about the current projects.
NEXT. Marjolein gave us an
update on how the Improv Film (working title) is going. Saturday’s filming went very well, and
got Ceileidh out of the cold and hail.
However, there were some problems with the equipment, which hopefully
Shetland Arts will sort out. We
will be filming the final scenes on Monday before the Christmas Party, and the
schedule looks something like this:
1545 – 1630: Inside the submarine, at Dirk’s house
Main Cast: Chloe or Amy, Sanna
1630 – 1700: Man who is scared of FROOT, Islesburgh somewhere
Main Cast: Joe, Roseanne (as special guest), Cara,
Katya
1700 – 1800: Marjolein’s Hour, Islesburgh somewhere
Main Cast: Katya, Ceidiog, Craig
More people are probably needed, but I don’t remember… Marjolein will
email out closer to the time!
During this discussion we somehow got sidetracked talking about my
acquaintance/friend Stephen, who was voted RTE Guide’s Hottest Male Celebrity and works at RTE, the
equivalent of the BBC in Ireland.
Marjolein decided he is ‘not that hot’ and listed WILLEM DAFOE and JACK
BLACK in her top five attractive men.
The unanimous decision (maybe?) was that she is weird. Then Joe steered us back on track using
his steering mime, which will totally become a thing.
We accidentally skipped the next two things on the agenda so we could
talk about the Christmas Party… so excited! We’re going to play party games and
have food and watch a Christmas Film (‘Elf’ not ‘Santa Goes to Court’) and also
watch some rough cuts of the films we’ve made since September! If Cara gets them edited in time…
Anyway, 19th December, after Improv film shoot until 9pm! So probably 6-9 at Islesburgh. Bring food! Make cookies!
Then we discussed the New Year. We decided Wednesday 4th
January was fine for the AGM, so Cara will put a thing in the paper. Items for the agenda include:
- Electing a new Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
- Talking protocol so people don’t talk over each other (introduced at the beginning and monitored by Harry… probably)
- Maddrim ideology
- Recap of the year, watch Screenplay 2011 films again because they are excellent
- Funding
- Future projects
Then Joe sang like an old man, and Ceidiog was mean about something
(according to my wonderful note taking… oh, I miss Katya).
Joe, Marjolein and Cara will be filming a flash mob this weekend, and
some Maddrimers are needed to film another next week, so we’ll speak about that
at the party.
And to finish off the meeting, we danced around and ate mince
pies.
See you next weeeeeek!
