Production Meeting Minutes

Here are some minutes recorded from the production meeting held today. Unfortunately I was unable to attend due to other module attendances.

Notes from ‘The Refuge’ Production Meeting – 25 October 2013
Attended:  Hannah Bushnell, Luke Parker, Paul Manning

This meeting was held in preparation for the first ‘proper’ shoot at the refuge, on 01 November 2013. 
Agenda

• Two Editors
• Filming on Friday
• Equipment Requisition
• Workbooks for Assessment

• Two Editors

In this meeting we discussed how it would work having two editors and how best to allocate footage.
Our original idea was to split the footage between the two editors by giving them each footage from one camera.  Each shoot will have two cameras, so we thought maybe Bex could take Charlie’s footage and Luke could take Natalie’s for example.  We even discussed Bex doing the more ‘arty’ poetic footage while Luke does the formal interview footage.

However, after much discussion between the group and Chris, we are all agreed that it makes more sense for both editors to be involved in the reviewing, logging and editing of all the footage.  That way both editors know what footage has been shot, and is therefore available, and they can each work on segments of the film knowing what resources they have to hand.

• Filming on Friday

For Friday’s shoot cameras will be operated by Charlie Poyser (Level 5 student) and James Gowers who is actually part of another group but has kindly offered to help us out.  Sound will be recorded by Paul Manning. 

It is important to make sure that Charlie and James don’t get distracted and stick to the shot list.  (We remember how distracted we were on our first trip to the refuge!).  This short film is about the people as well as the animals.

The target for Friday is to get the three main interviews for the five minute film: Pam, Toni and Darren (or Sandy, the volunteer).

• Equipment Requisition

Equipment list has been created by Paul and the following equipment is being collected on Thursday
2 x XF100 cameras, 2 x tripods, 1 x Marantz PD 661, 1 x AudioTechnica Rifle Mic, 1 x Tie clip mic set, 1 x Track set
Other equipment will be brought by Paul (as Producer); batteries, DSLR, tripod, GoPro

• Workbooks for Assessment

For drama projects we would have a script to work from, for this documentary project we discussed how we would have to work from shot lists and interview question sheets in order to break down the scenes and for Paul to schedule the shoots.
Hannah has produced a shot list and questions.
Luke is preparing moodboards and storyboards.

Minutes by Paul Manning