January 5th - Show Project Meeting

Today we thought that it would be a good idea for all of us to sit down and have a meeting to plan and make a few decisions about the project. We came up with a nomination and voting system, which would help us to make a lot of decisions that we need to make to get this project done. Starting with the decision on who would be chairman of the meetings, we held a nomination to who wanted to be up for chairman and then from that we all voted on who we thought would be best for the position. It started of with James, Alex, Tim, Kirk and Dave being nominated and as James and Dave got the least votes, they were taken out of the voting. Alex and Tim are now are chairmen and it has worked a lot better with two chairmen as we now have two people we can refer to and twice as much organization.
We then moved on to deciding on what the concept for our micro-series would be. This decision was made by us all writing an idea on a post-it note, sticking them on the board and we all voted by drawing a tic on the one which we thought was best. From this we got down to three ideas, we had a discussion and thought we would combine the concept of a detention room with secret agent and get rid of zombie apocalypse. This then made our concept for our micro-series, five regulars in detention(one of which is a secret agent trying to escape) and their daily problems. We had a brief discussion after this about the names of these five regulars and what they are like but it wasn't a very organised discussion and will need some more looking into.
Our final discussion of the day was to assign roles to each person in the class and we voted on who we wanted for director but the rest of the roles were done more loosely and without voting. Our directors are now Dave and Kirk and the voting was done in the same way as the voting for the chairman. Tim then made a list of what roles we think we will be needing and then went down the list and asking who would want to do this role. Below is a list of the roles and who now has those roles.

Directors - Dave and Kirk
Editors - Loz
Sound - Myself and Sam
Camera - Tim, Alex and Matt L
Title and Credits - Matt H and Hayden
Casting - Mike
Treasurer - Dave
Writers - James, Alex, Matt H, Hayden and Alie
Marketing - Alie and Tara
Websites - Ash

This last discussion I don't think was handled very well and I think it could have been as easy or more easier than the previous discussion if we had kept to the same rules as before. We had lost our system of one person talking at a time by raising their hand and being chosen. This then made it hard for other people to be heard and only the more dominant members of the class were heard. We also lost our nominating and voting system which meant that some people got exactly what they wanted and more but others may not have had the chance to have what they wanted as well. I think that this would have gone a lot better if we were all listening to one person at a time and using nomination and voting so that everyone would have the chance to have the role that they wanted. I think that we have learnt a lot from this meeting today and that we now know how things work best, we will now know how to work better together and get the job done a lot easier.