Production meetings
29/09/2011:
We all discussed our initial ideas, after forming the group on the 28/09/11 we set out to go home and come back with a few ideas for the next meeting.
Our ideas included looking at the cancer treatment cuts, the life of an undertaker and the Rowner project, looking at an estate that was once described the worst estate in the UK.
We gave each other the following roles:
Ainsley - Producer
Bianca - Director
Alyssa - Director of Photography
Darren - Sound
Adelle - Marketing/ Promotion
Charlotte - Editing
05/10/2011:
During this meeting we all agreed on liking the Cancer research idea and began to develop it further. We talked about any people we may already know who has been affected with cancer and looked into contacting various hospital about filming and interview permissions. We also began to brainstorm our company name and create a Yola account to start building out website.
12/10/2011:
during this week we were turned down by many hospitals. This led us to unfortunatly give up on the cancer research idea and start coming up with new ideas. We came up with the idea of a documentary on Greyhound racing and began to further research and develop it. After we set up a Twitter account.
20/10/2011:
We began to looking into the themes of the Greyhound idea and developing it further. We also started to contact local stadiums and rescue centres.
24/10/2011:
We developed the idea of Greyhound racing in which we contacted various greyhound race stadiums and sent formal documentations that were needed for filming permissions.
In order to do this we had to gain a written consent from Keith Edwards (course administrator)
31/10/2011:
Creating the Facebook group, taking pictures for the website and looking into the undertaker idea as a second option.
07/11/2011:
We met in the MMC and started creating the company business cards on Photoshop. We carried working on the website and helping each other pick the final 12 photos for our photo essays. After we developed and gained more information on the undertaker idea.
14/11/2011:
We finalised the design of the buisness cards and began to palce an order for them. We also found our first primary; a Greyhound trainer who agreed to let us film him with his dogs.
21/11/2011:
Ordered our T-shirts for promotional reasons and finalised our poster. We also kept in contact with Brighton stadium and began planning a trip down there to shoot a short "teaser trailer".
28/11/2011:
Due to other commiments the manager at Brighton stadium had to cancel our trip to visit the stadium. We plan on doing this at the start of next semester. We also began working on our pitch which we will present during week 12.
5/12/2011:
As it was getting close to deadline we finalised our Yola webpages and made sure our Pitch for next week was ready. As a group we also decided to switch out the roles of producer and Director of Photography. The new agreed roles are:
Alyssa Patel- Producer
Bianca Donohoe- Director
Ainsley Brookes- Director of Photography
Darren Jones- Sound
Adelle Knees- Marketing and Promotions
Charlotte Kerman- Editor
