First Meeting - 5th Jan 10

Today in class we had our first class meeting about the 'Show' project, we began the meeting with coming up with a few basic ideas for a storyline for the mini series. We came up with ideas by each having post-it notes that we could write down any idea that we had on, then we put the up on the board and everyone had to tick the post-it we thought would work best. As we have to have the majority of the class vote on each idea for it to be finalize it was quite difficult to come to an agrement, there were many idea featuring; detention room, zombies, world domination and secret agents. We had to vote for the ideas, the idea with the most votes was the idea to have it set in a detention room with a group of teenagers that are always in detention, though not enough people voted yes to agree on this, the people that did not argee wanted the idea of a boy being harasted by a secret agent. As an argement the class decided that to get everyone to argee on one idea we would incorperate the boy with the secret agent into the detention idea. Once we had the basic idea for the show the class decided to create some characters, we once again did this throw anyone with an idea writing it on a post-it note and then people voting, we finalize a rough idea of six characters. I think that the way we came up and voted on the ideas was very good and everyone got to express their own opinions, I also think that I was a good comprimize to incorparte the two story ideas together so that everyone is happy with the idea.

After we had a basic idea of what the concept for the mini series was we had to assign everyone in the class roles for the project. The first role we had to assign was 'Chair', for this we also used voting but instead of post-its, we went around the class and asked everyone to nominate one person they thought would make a good chair, once everyone had nominated each person had to vote. Alex and Tim got the majority of votes and it was decided that they should both be chairs so that they could help each other and if one is not in a lesson they is still one there, in my opinion this was a very good idea. It was then Alex and Tim's job to organize our meeting on deciding the rest of the roles; Tim began by writing the list of roles of the board and went down the list and asked who would like to do each role, once someone had offered to take on a role everyone had to vote yes or no by raising hands. Although we managed to assign all the roles, I think the meeting could have gone a lot better; there were a few people in the class that were constantly talking over other people and wouldn't let people say their opinions. The same people were also the ones that got the most roles, there are a few people in the class that seemed to want to have all of the roles and basically be in control of the whole project.

Though we had some issues everyone was given a role that they were happy with, my role is Marketing & Publicity.

The roles are;

CHAIRS: Alex & Tim

DIRECTORS: Dave & Kirk

EDITOR: Loz

CAMERA: Matt, Alex & Tim

SOUND: Philippa & Sam

TITLES & CREDITS: Hayden & Matt H

WRITERS: James, Hayden, Matt H, Alex

MONEY: Dave

MARKETING & PUBLICITY: Me, Tara, Dave and Ash

CASTING: Mike

In future meetings some of the class is going to need to let other people have some more input.