Meeting Notes (Friday, 1/30/09)
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In Attendance:

Ryan
DKL
Bruce
Nick
Anna
Felix
Emily
Ted
Arjun
Freeson
Terry (Brown)
Terry (Boyd)
Benji (new!!!!)
Ted (new; one meeting last semester)

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5:30pm
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Ryan started the meeting with discussion of change of Film Fest venue
to be a "bike-in" on either the CMU Cut or Flagstaff Hill. He
apparently did some research and found out CMUTV might be willing to
help out with projection, etc. We still need to find something for
the sound, though (AB?). Some drawbacks to this approach discussed: difficulty charging, where will people sit?, Flagstaff requires city permission.

Ryan asked if anyone saw any cool movies recently. Brief discussion of Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Status of judges....? Need to ask people at Filmmakers, CMU, etc.
Possibility of some new drama teacher opening festival?

To Do:
- Contact AB Tech about sound for festival

Ryan thanked everyone for coming to the shoot last Saturday and asked
for opinions on how it went. Most people said it went well. He
apologized for what seemed like down time during filming with sound
(people had to be quiet, might have been boring). 

Felix worked some magic and the new Super8 camera worked for a second,
but then stopped working in Ryan's hands. Hilarious!

Ryan asked if other people wanted to learn more about film. People
want to learn more about film! Ryan asked what specific questions
people would like to have answered. DKL asked some question about
lighting and exposure and Ryan began and answer about f-stops and
stuff. Depth-of-field also briefly discussed.

Terry dropped in at this point.

James drew and showed some retarded diagram about depth-of-field.

Ryan explained zooming in to focus. Then we moved on to white-balance
for video. Protip: if you use auto-settings and move the shot around
a lot, it might look crappy.

Moving on, Feb. 7 was set as a deadline for the preparation of some
stuff for the Film Festival, including the creation of a separate
website. Some discussion of whether there should be a separate
domain for the site. Freeson and James wanted it to be shorter and
more memorable than our standard club site's domain.

Film Fest committee possible divisions:
- God
	Ryan - Flyer Master (off-campus/Downtown,Lawrenceville)
             - Trailer for Festival (graphics, etc.)

- Directing/Producing
	James - Trailer for Festival (graphics, etc.)
	DKL

- Finance
	Bruce
	Nick
	Emily - Approaching local businesses
	Terry Brown - Approaching local businesses

- Advertising
	Emily
	Terry
	Nick
	Felix - Cover letter for financial sponsor proposals;
	      - Press release
	Anna  - Flyer Master (off-campus/Oakland)
	Arjun - Flyer Master (on-campus)
	Freeson - Trailer for YouTube?

During lots of ridiculous discussion, a new guy walked in. His name
is Benji.

Ryan sure likes yelling out "FIRE!" in a voice like "Fi-yurrr!"

Freeson mentioned SIGGRAPH is accepting volunteers. Also wants Don
to give up the master login/password for the site so we can modify
it. 

Meeting effectively adjourned at 6:35.