February 22, 2007

This meeting we screened Jon Gavin’s creation movie “The Chicken and the Egg”. You can watch it on youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu23HnN3tyI] and you can find the rest of the weekly challenge movies on imeem [http://mfa.imeem.com/].

We will NOT be meeting next Thursday because of spring break. Our next meeting will be March 15th. During break, you can work on the next challenge: stop motion. This site has some good basic information about making stop motion films: http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/
and this is a great example on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

When we get back, we will be watching some clips of surrealistic films. Ask Jared for more info.

February 15, 2007

Hey everybody, just wanted be a good unofficial secretary and update you on Thursday’s meeting.

The pre-production workshop was rescheduled for next week (February 22nd). The other two workshops (production and editing) will probably be on a weekend so more people can come. Saturday afternoons seemed like a good possibility.

We went over the group housing application and it’s now ready to go. Jared, myself, the housemates, and the alternates are going to have a brief prep meeting sometime next week before the interview with Residential Services. If you have any housing connections or bribery experience, you’re welcome to join us!

The sock movies were screened and we agreed that next week’s theme would be creation. It’s completely open to interpretation. On Thursday, we also plan to watch some Surrealist/Dadaist films in order to prepare for our next theme.

February 9, 2007

Our first weekly challenge was a hit; we had three Banana artworks: see them now on the MFA’s new Imeem page!

http://mfa.imeem.com/

The theme for next week’s meeting is–SOCKS. Remember, you can make any kind of visual art you want, moving or still.

February 2, 2007

Notes from yesterday’s Film Association meeting:

1) BANANA

The students who attended decided that it might be fun to have a weekly film challenge on a theme–totally no pressure, but the idea that every MFA meeting might open with people presenting stuff they made on that week’s theme. It could be a few seconds of footage, it could be a storyboard, could be a written-up film treatment idea, could be a drawing: just some artistic response.

This week’s theme is BANANA.

Next week, Thursday at 4:30, we will just meet briefly to see if anybody made anything (er, I admit I have an idea). Meeting times continue to be at 4:30 on Thursdays.

2) PLEASE VOTE ON WORKSHOP TIMES

The week after next, we’d like to start our first workshops, but we wanted to check whether Thursday 4:30 works for everybody.

Here is a choice of other times:

a) Tuesday 8 – 9 PM
b) Thursday 4:30 – 5:30
c) Thursday 5:30 – 6:30
d) Thursday 6:30 – 7:30
e) Thursday 7:30 – 8:30
f) Thursday 8:30 – 9:30

Could you please hit reply and tell me which of those times work for you, and which works best for you?

Our first film workshop will be on the subject of PRE-PRODUCTION. Joe Nash will bring some materials, but we also ask for you to come and share your tips, expertise, and anxieties on: Story Treatment/Concept, Scripts and Storyboarding, making shot lists, scouting for locations, and/or preparing to shoot. If you have examples of any of these materials that you would be willing to share, please bring them: one of our goals this semester is to collect examples and models for future students for reference.

I’ll confirm the date/time once I’ve gotten your reply: we’ll make it at the time most people can come.

3) HARD DRIVE

The MFA now has its own club hard drive! Will we use it for good or for evil?? Cone and find out!!

4) LOGO CONTEST

We need a logo for the MFA, and the students at yesterday’s meeting decided we should make it a challenge. So–have any artistic talent? Design a logo for the Muhlenberg Film Association!! Deadline TBA!

5) REMINDER: Tom Gunning will be speaking Wed, Feb 7th in the recital hall at 7 PM!

6) REMINDER: It looks like the Friday 13th horror film festival is a go; please start thinking about your favorite terrifying films.