The Last Planning Meeting - 28th Feb 2011

Present: Joe, Katya, Kate.

Well, for the first half an hour we fruitlessly searched for a “Google To Do List” app on Joe’s iphone…Productiveness at its finest!

Don’t worry fellow Maddrimmers, we did actually do something relevant.

Jacqui met with Joe and Ceidiog and told us some changes have to be made to our ideas:

1)      Jacqui realised that our Aert idea fitted the Midder theme much better – so we’ve swapped. This means that we can definitely use Freya’s layering idea that Jacqui was very impressed with because we don’t have to film exclusively from the ground.

2)      We are going to save using helicopters for a future film idea. Instead, filming from the lighthouses lights’ P.O.Vs is an idea and Joe suggested using this as a transition shot between the lighthouses as a link from one story to another.

3)      Much to our (and especially my) great dismay we cannot have The Last Viking story in our film because Vikings are too stereotypical of Shetland. But we’ve decided to film it anyway…await Screenplay 2011.

4)      So Muckle Flugga is no longer a location and is replaced by Eshaness. And the story is...ummm...

So we need a new idea for Eshaness.

Brainstorming!

We thought about filming a group of people coming out of a “tardis” van (i.e. there would be more people than what would be possible to fit inside), but as this is difficult to incorporate into the story saving this for the crazed Shetlanders in the Last Viking idea might be better.  

The background story will be that these people are lost and start by making an S.O.S shape and then they somehow get carried away in the moment. Then we will be filming from above like the TalkTalk 2006 advert:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQIwbvGRKU 

Email back if you have any bright ideas that are not hideously complex, suggestions, questions or comments because we've technically stopped brainstorming. Storyboarding is well underway, but suggestions are welcome :)

Ciao

Katya x

Planning for the Tall Ships - 21st Feb 2011

Present:   

Joe, Freya, Katya...and Chloe Warner!                                                                                               

So, promptly down to business - because we may be few, but we are organised.

Overview of the Tall Ships ideas:

Nord: Travelling across Shetland’s lighthouses

·         Young couple attacked by tirricks (effective yet adorable)

·         Lonely Viking building a galley to flee to Norway that is tragically destroyed by ravages and crazy Shetlanders fuelled by their inherent Up-Helly-Aa instinct.

And the possible locations are...Eshaness, Bressay, Sumburgh, Muckle Flugga (tours to this exotic destination are sadly restricted but we shall get there somehow), Foula, Mousa.

And because Maddrim is cool we think we should acquire a helicopter at some point for AWESOME aerial shots.

Yet we are just not able to forget the lady with the Puffin Appreciation Society  - a future short film will be necessary. Watch this space.

Cutting the locations down to 3 would be more convenient and sensible, so which?

• Sumburgh for tirrick invasion
• Bressay for winch chip idea
• Muckle Flugga for Viking escapades.

Aert: Filming through time

Freya cleverly suggested filming the old-fashioned exteriors of the roofs in Lerwick to later reveal the modern shops below (panning downwards through the layers of buildings). We like this idea!

I mentioned the new-old-fashioned sweet shop at the end of the street. We could take advantage of this, chuck on some effects et viola – Shetland back in time.

Unfortunately we cannot have audio in our films, so communicated the changing time periods will not be able to include radio clips etc.

“HILAROUS” pun:

Hey, did you hear that we don’t have any audio. No pun intended!

...ha.

“Guy walks across America” – an amazing Youtube video of impressive stop motion animation showing  exactly what it says on the tin in a mere 1 min 54! A similar idea to ours only involving much more space (Shetland is, after all, only a pebble in comparison) and much more time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzRKEv6cHuk

Enjoy!

Katya x