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28th September 2012

Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Taken by Louise Hart
People Present: Jess, Alice, Graeme, Kayleigh, Louise.

We discussed which roles would be suited to us best for the project, but also agreed that exploring other roles would benefit us all. Louise will be directing, Jess will be the D.O.P, Kayleigh the Producer, Graeme the Writer and Alice the Sound engineer.

We have decided to all come up with suggestions for the name of our production company for the next meeting, as well as a topic for the documentary. Tasked each other with coming up with at least two good ideas by the next meeting.

10th October 2012

Time: 13:00 - 14:05

Taken by Louise Hart.
People present: Jess, Alice, Kayleigh, Graeme, Louise.

We met to discuss the progress of the project so far, starting with the production name. Jess explained that the name "Rugulent" was a word her dad had invented, and that it has connotations of being both rough and yet elegant - a style we wish to employ for our documentary, gritty content with elegant filming. 

We all agreed that this would be a suitable and original name. We also agreed that the production logo that Jess had designed was inventive and aesthetically pleasing. 

We then discussed what our documentary's subject would be. Everyone present agreed that the proposed investigative documentary concerning a man who collects sex dolls would be original and interesting; however we also accepted that the couple in question live in Madley, rather far from our location, and that they had not agreed to be filmed yet.

Graeme's idea of producing a documentary about the deterioration of the work of the ice cream man, also proved popular with our group. However, we did consider that it would be difficult to film an ice cream man working at this time of year.

17th Oct 2012

Time: 16:00 - 16:30

Taken by Jess Hallett. 
People present: Lou, Jess, Graeme

Spoke about logo and background for yolasite - agreed upon a new design which works for us all as the previous logo idea ended up not working as well as we thought.

Looked through the profile pages and sorted out who needed to do what in terms of uploading information- needed profile write ups.

Spoke about key documentary ideas - boys dance, sex dolls.

1st November 2012

Time: 16:00 - 16:35

Taken by Louise Hart.
People Present: Jess, Alice, Graeme, Kayeligh, Toby and Louise.

We discussed a request from Toby to join our group. Toby had approached us and asked to join, everyone present was pleased with this and in agreement that he should join. With this change to our group came a change in roles. Toby will now be directing our production instead of myself, and I will focus mainly on the art department and lighting. I will also work closely with the camera-operator and assist with editing when required.  Alice stayed with her role as a sound operator, Graeme with scriptwriting and first assistant director.

Jess and Kayleigh swapped roles for the project after discussing strengths and weaknesses. Jess is better at Producing and organising the group, whereas Kayleigh felt that she was stronger in a more creative/camera style role. 

Jess is now the Producer and Kayleigh the DOP. They are also both joint head editors. 

5th November 2012

Time: 18:00 - 22:00

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Alice, Toby. 

Worked solidly on finishing our photo essays. Helped one another work out the best photos to use and also what to write about each. Made sure they were uploaded onto our Flickr accounts, ready to be placed onto the Yola site.

6th November 2012

Time: 21:00 - 23:05

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Graeme, Alice, Toby. 

Added more content to different pages in the website, changed the layout for each of the photo essays and technical exercise photos as we finally worked out how to do it with Flickr. 

Focused on updating the Documentary Database page and finally finished our Copyright Document.

7th November 2012

Time: 15:30 - 21:20

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Graeme, Alice, Louise, Kayleigh. 

Created a new teaser trailer for our website and company. Were all in agreement that it works well.

Updated more of the website pages.

Had chinese - £39.80 to add to budget. ;)

Finished off our photo essays.

Happy.

Also, Jess and Alice had a fun moment...

8th November 2012

Time: 18:30 - 05:30

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Graeme, Alice, Toby. 

Did an all-nighter in the MMC.

Added a load more content to the site, finished all of our technical photo write ups. 

Did more research into documentary styles and analysed a few documentaries.

Updated our Facebook, Twitter and Youtube pages with more content. 

Began to advertise our company and sites more online.

10th November 2012

Time: All Day

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present (Online): Jess, Graeme, Alice, Toby, Kayleigh, Louise. 

Jess focused on advertising our site and Facebook page and managed to make 59 likes on the Facebook page within a few hours. 

Our teaser trailer on Youtube has already reached 65 views after only being advertised properly for a day.

Jess managed to get Harry Potter/Doctor Who Actor Simon Fisher-Becker's support (he also liked our Facebook page). He messaged Jess and said he was "Always happy to support fresh talent." Brilliant confidence boost for the entire group.

Decided to take a bit of a break from the heavy work load the website gave us each so we could focus on work from our other modules.

Will resume work soon, in the meantime each of us will update the site with bits and pieces when we see fit.

21st November 2012

Time: All Day

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present (Online): Jess, Alice, Louise. 

Jess and Alice decided that they would work on the website content whilst the rest of the group took time to arrange our U-Drama work. 

25th November 2012

Time: 9am - 1am

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Graeme, Toby. Rest of the group were present online. 

Toby and Graeme worked more on the Critical Reading Reviews and managed to get Week 1 completed and got through most of Week 2. 

Jess focused on finishing the Database Documentary page, updating the layout and content of the Documentary Process page and parts of the Technical Design page.

Ordered a takeaway from the Kebab house. £17.30 to add to budget ;)  

10th December 2012

Time: 2pm - 2am

Taken by Jess Hallett.
People Present: Jess, Graeme, Toby. Rest of the group were present online. 

Jess and Graeme made a start on the pitch presentation, outlining the main points for each slide and delegating the slides to each member of the group.

Toby joined us and then focused on finishing his slide and the critical reading weeks.

Louise focused on her individual pages and completed her New Media Application page.

Louise and Jess both managed to contact several primaries for the project, and have arranged to film and interview a couple of them for tomorrow.