Dhag Dheer's House

Production Meeting 5/3/09

Location: Leah and Oli's house
Present: Leah, Oli, Mike

Storyboarding Session
- 11-1 with a 1/2 lunch break. Then 1:30-3:30
- The students will be watching Wall-E as an example
- Mike to print storyboard templates at the Academy
- Leah to email Mike photos from the locations trip

Production Management Session
- Can Abdi come to breif us on locations?
- Handouts for student on a guide to Production Management
- Compose a letter to the Bristol City Council at Blaise House and ask permission to use the Rustic Cottage.
- Leah to get examples of release forms from Available Light
- Discuss Risk Assesments and ask Lisa if there is a standard form from BCA
- Research templates for shooting schedules

Locations
- Will there be a Locations meeting this Saturday???
- Locations and Production Managers to source exterior locations.
- Interiors to be filmed at Leah and Oli's (if nothing else can be found)
- Research locations where we can have a campfire.

Casting
- Phil to run Casting Workshop Saturday
- Auditions to be scheduled ASAP

Adgenda for the next Production Meeting, Saturday 1:00-1:30
- Transport to locations
- Bringing another Production Manager on board if Phil needs to step back.
- Costumes
- Props
- Will Tony be available during shooting?
- Marketing
- Set design

Meetin Tonight

Hi Everyone,
I hope as many people as posible can come to the meeting at my (and Oli's) House tonight.

the Address is 66 Sefton Park Road, Bristol, BS7 9AJ

Yay! Back on Board! Yay!

Hello,

So yes. I have out run the Home Office for the time being. This means I am coming out from under my rock and feeling the urgency of getting organized with this project.

IMPORTANT: If you have not done so already, can you bring your completed CRB forms on Saturday if you have a workshop or Thrusday the 5th for the Productio Meeting.

I think I will post meeting notes and other documents re: Dhag Dheer to everyone can read them regardless of format. Here is the crew list for a start:

DHAG DHEER FILM CREW


PRODUCTION MANAGERS: (Phil and Leah)
Hasna

STORYBOARDERS (Mike)
Naima Suufi (9)
Syeda Ahmed (9)
Zainab Halepota (9)
Vishma Butt (9)
Hasna (9)
Amina (9)

CASTING MANAGERS (Phil)
Zainab Helepota (9)
Safia (7)
Hana Nour Elmi (7)

DIRECTORS (Oli)
Mahad Abdourahman (11)
Yasin Ismail (11)
Muna Ibrahim (10)
Vishma Butt (9)
Nimra Butt (7)

LOCATION MANAGERS and props (Oli)
Abdifitah Awale (11)
Sakiya Ghalib (7)
Sarwat Unar (7)

CINEMATOGRAPHERS (Becky)
Sundas Chowdry (10)
Suzanna Ngamba (10)

CAMERAPEOPLE (Becky)
Vije Sri (11)
Hardev Singh (10)
Hodo Ahmed (10)
Hamda Ibrahim (9)

SOUND TECHNICIANS (?)
Syeda Ahmed (9)


MUSICAL DIRECTORS (?)
Oubah Yussuf (10)
Hana Nour Elmi (7)
Amina (9)

EDITORS (Jake)
Sami

POST PRODUCTION SOUND (Jake)


MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION (Oli)

Leah is back on board

Looks like Leah will be staying until June. Hope you can all still make it this weekend though!

No, it's great news.

I have to say I am a bit disappointed that no-one has written anything on the blog so far... Let's see some lesson updates and at the very least everyone on the project should be a member!

See you here very soon.

x

Leah's Visa

There is something that everyone on the Dhag Deer project needs to be aware of. Leah has been having some visa issues - the immigration kind - and there is a strong possibility that she will have to leave the country in a month's time. Sniff.

If this does happen I have a replacement lined up. Her name is Soheila Dolton and she coordinates TTV production for Available Light.

Obviously I hope this will not have to be the case but we need to plan for any eventualities.

Cheers x

Directing workshop 1 and Location Workshop 1

Hi Everyone

Just to update you on my lesson last Saturday. The directing workshop went really well, the kids were really engaged and actually picked up a lot during the two hours. I went through shot types, genre and getting coverage when shooting a scene.

In the afternoon only one kid turned up for the location workshop. (This may have been due to room issues. Internal politics at The Academy by all accounts. Lisa is booking a room for every weekend until June so that should not be a problem next week.) Abdi did really well and we motored through the script, identifying all the locations. He is writing everything up for homework. Next session I want to take him and his two assistants out on location hunts. Leah should be there with me because of the girl issue.

There won't be any sessions till after half term.

Cheers

Oli x