April 22nd at 7:30pm

In the Recital Hall

If you have stuff you want to show, please bring it to Dr. Coppa on Thursday or Tuesday before the show; DVDs, VHS, flash drives, avi files, powerpoints all welcome!
FC

Tomorrow’s meeting is pretty important–we will be discussing nominations for next year.

We will be discussing lots of other issues as well, like Quick N Dirty, so please bring any submissions for the festival with you!

The weather will be wonderful, but this is important!!! So please come! In fact, this meeting is mandatory. Whoever is not present will be noted. If you cannot come you MUST EMAIL ME YOR NOMINATION FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS.

President
Vice Pres/technical advisor
MFA/MTA liason
secretary
treasurer

See you tomorrow.

Alana

No experience necessary, but strong interest / background in history a must.

Duties include logging and prepping archival footage for broadcast documentaries.

Please apply to:
Scott L. Reda
Lou Reda Productions
Easton, PA
email- scott@louredaproductions.com
ph- 610-258-2957

Meeting Thursday clearly!!

A couple things we will be discussing!!

—SICK, if anyone has any questions or concerns..mainly for those not done shooting, but for those who have, we will talk about editing the pieces.
—QUICK N DIRTY–where, when, and submissions! BRING anything you want to submit to thursday’s meeting!
—Pro-choice psuedo project for next semester…just discussing the possibility!

Yey, see y’all Thursday!!

Alana

Meeting tomorrow. Yey. Please come so we can see where everyone is at in terms of scenes.

To members who are also in the MCTV class bring any DVD’s with projects that you want to submit to the quick n dirty this year!!!

Alana

Anyway, we have lots to do guys. I set up a budget request with student council, and Scott will be representing us since I have to film an Obama event in the Miller Forum.
The amount is for $500, and should cover your special effects needs. But I’m not sure since no one gave me a budget.

I need to know when you guys are filming!! Send me the dates if you have them set! Let me know if you want me on set!!!

Filming needs to happen as soon as possible. And then editing will follow.

It seems like a lot, and it is a lot of work, but shoots are pretty fun! Also most of your scenes are pretty short…tell me what you need so I can help!

I should be filming this weekend also, but in the evening.

Keep in touch with me everyone!!!
Alana

Hope everyone had a super relaxing break!

Meeting this Thursday, same place and time…I’m currently corresponding with Student council about additional funding…so we’ll see how that goes. KEEP YOUR RECIEPTS SO THAT YOU CAN BE REIMBURSED FOR ANYTHING YOU HAVE PURCHASED THUS FAR.

Is anyone planning on filming before Thursday? Let me know!! And even if not, let me know if you need help with your shoot, whenever it occurs, in any way shape or form.

One last thing–I recieved an email about having some club members represent the MFA at the “Through the Red Doors” Event…I can’t attend because it’s on a Saturday and I have a scheduled shoot at the Allentown Women’s Center…would anyone be willing to represent the MFA? The event is Sat. April 12, from 12-2:30 in the field house.

Let me know!! And I’ll see you Thursday!

just wanted to throw a few things out there that i didn’t cover in the meeting last night…

When filming, get some “transition shots” that we can use to connect all the scenes through spiffy editing.

for example, in the haas scene, do a close up of one guy pushing the elevator button.

for the drug scene, do a close up of a hand turning on the stove and turning a knob. When we edit, we can go between these scenes with a visual flow that will make the entire piece much more visually interesting.

I’ll be assisting Erika’s shoot on Saturday at 3pm in the village, and hannah and nicole’s Haas scene on Sunday at 9:30am. So if you guys have confusion as to what i mean by transition shots, i’ll be there to clarify.

i’ll be filming my scene sometime in the middle of next week…

Those of you filming after Easter break, no worries. Just reply to this message and remind me who those of you are.

peter kleinberger, will you be filming before or after break?

Again, i just want to reiterate that I don’t want you to be afraid of telling me what i’m doing wrong, if any of you see anything that should be done differently. i can’t change anything if i am not aware of what has to be changed. We’re all very busy, and this is not the only extracurricular project i’m working on so i need your help to run this smoothly. I’m glad my absence in the beginning of yesterday’s meeting allowed you to vent and figure out how to deal with some of your concerns.

Lastly i;m going to call coppa and find out about department funding. Until then, keep any receipts for anything you purchase that is shoot related.

talk to Scott Rod about any special effects material you need!!!!

I can’t make it to the meeting thrusday if it is at 4:30, so would anyone object to meeting at 5pm? REPLY ASAP if that is an issue.

I reviewed the script in its entirety this weekend, and jotted down a few notes.

Nicole and Hannah–
As I reviewed your scene, I totally loved the zombie killing the random student in front of the elevator, but I almost want the couple to not even get attacked at all–it is typical in horror films for the sexual couple to get killed off, and that sends a message about sexuality in general. like, don’t be promiscuous because you’ll get an STD and die!!@! Ahh! Changing it would serve to make all the scenes a little more diverse, since other scenes depict students getting attacked a lot. However, your scene is very well written, and THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR SCENE AT ALL. I’m no nazi. This is a student project, and you have worked hard on your scene. Just somethign to think about. Let me know on Thursday if you decide to change your scene. Again, don’t feel like you need to!!

Taylor-
Since most of your scene is blocking, and you only gave me the part with dialogue, I don’t know how your scene ends! Just give me a quick synopsis of what happens to your characters.

Otherwise I think everything is cool.

FOR THURSDAY! If you have not already made a shooting schedule, talk to your actors and get their conflicts and try to have a schedule made up by Thursday.

We will also be discussing makeup.

See y’all soon,
Alana