January 6th - Meeting/Starting the Project

Today we started off with another meeting and started to determine what responsibilities each of our roles would include. I have the role of sound throughout the project and I gathered a few ideas of what I thought I would be responsible for doing. I would need to start researching opening title theme tunes from other comedy micro-series to see what kinda of thing works best and get some idea. I also thought that it would be useful for me to refer to the writers and title/credits editors to see what kinda of plan they had and that everything will work well together. Finally, I thought that at some point it may be good if I got feedback from everyone in the class to see what sounds they think would go well so I have lots of ideas and different views.

After this we then split into two groups, one group with the writers and editors and another with the marketing team and writers and editors started to write the script and the marketing started to come up with idea for what they needed to do. We managed to come up with a lot of idea for the first episode and also what other characteristics the character would have. This worked quite well until there started to be people who didn't agree with some of changes to the characters and the complex ideas of the episode. When then decided to have another meeting to fix these problems and make sure that everyone was happy with the decisions made. We also took this time to decided on a name for the series, which we decided was 'Detention Deficit'. I think that we all still need to keep to a good communication system so that everyone knows of the choices and has taken part in them.

My final task of the day was to work with Mike who is the casting director. We made a list of all the characters in the series so far and went around people within the class to see who would want to act and who they would want to be. From this, we would then know what characters were left and if we needed to find more actors and so we could organize the auditions.