Thursday April 30th Post General Membership Open Committee Meeting (P.G.M.O.C.M.?)

[Tom Dineen]

Here are some notes from the meeting held at Zolas on the Thursday
following the Thursday April 30th Post General Membership Open
Commitee Meeting (P.G.M.O.C.M.?). If you are not currently a member of
the online Google Group you should join us! THis email is not from the
master email list, just to those whose emails I have so far. Ira and I
will work together in the next week or so to get the master email
distribution list from Jeff Antilla up and running.

The goal of the meeting was to talk about the first meeting and how
the committee felt it went, then go from there to shape the general
membership meetings to follow.

With the turn out for the social hour being around 20 to 30 people we
felt it was a great start, and we had just what we were looking for.
People were talking to people and sharing knowledge, experience,
contact information and so on. Generally a good time was had by all!

The meeting portion before was well done by Ira, where he provided a
overview of the group and where we are hoping it will go, along with a
fun tongue in cheek (legality in the use of copyrighted music and
images aside), and was well received. EWU's Quicky a short film fest
was a great hit to, the crowd certainly enjoyed the diversity and
creativity that was showcased and almost all there were commenting
they can;t wait for another installment.

Looking forward, we discussed the format that we had debated for the
monthly general meetings, and the general consensus was that what
would look to continue with the pre meeting social hour, and follow
that with panel style (3 to 5 panel members) discussion where panel
members could each share 15-20 minutes worth of their own works as
examples.

Topics discussed and tentatively scheduled would be as follows (along
with a wish list of Panelists):

5/26
Focus on D.P.'s
Panelist Wish-list: Donald Thorin, Danny Heigh, Peter N. Green, Don
Hamilton
(all listed people are unconfirmed and additional candidates for
consideration appreciated)
Possibly showing "Images of Darkness and Light" (a film about
cinematography i believe) the week before as a primer for those who
would like to have a basic understanding prior to the panel.

6/30
Storytellers - The Documentary
Panelist Wish-list: Dave Tanner, Irv Rowkin/Rowtan/Growtan/? (Zolas
was a little loud at this point, please correct my inaccuracies), Jay
Clements(?)/Twila(?)/(Tin Can? - for youth media), Collin Mulraney
(Digital Slideshows?)

7/28
Short Subject Fiction Authors
Panelist Wish-list: No names so far, suggestions?
Possibly hold a 1 Act Workshop where FAVES members could bring an act
of theirs with them, and with their acts in mind ask panelists for Q &
A about the process? Then it would be the authors assignment to go out
and find actors to act their scene out at a presentation two weeks
later at a local theater like the Civic or Fox. (1 acts would be bare
stage and minimal handheld props so focus is on content?)

Future nights:
Eclectic/Alt/Art Film
Modern Media and advances in Distribution in the Growing Bandwidth
Age
Directors
Producers
?suggestions?

Some other notes:
- We need to make sure these events don't turn to technical, it needs
to stay entertaining and approachable for the novice and hobbyist
- Have Evenings moderated by either local members of Academia
(Eastern, GU, SCC, SFCC, Dist 81?)
- Or have hosts be local people from areas other in Film/Video
production than the subject matter so they can keep subject from going
to far down the rabbit hole for general members.
- For each event hold a week prior showing similar to "Images of
Darkness and Light" for D.P.'s to set the mood for the General
memberships meeting the next week.
- Host a FAVES Membership Short Festival where projects must hav been
produced between now and Deadline (end of August or end of September),
and presented in late September or October?

So, that is a rough outline of the discussion, if you have any ideas
to share or comments on the ideas that were thrown out please share
with the rest of us. This is a collective effort and without your
input we won't be as great as we can be!

[rob...@community-minded.org]

Tom,
Thanks for the email:

Regarding the 6/30 suggestions,

"6/30
Storytellers - The Documentary
Panelist Wish-list: Dave Tanner, Irv Rowkin/Rowtan/Growtan/? (Zolas
was a little loud at this point, please correct my inaccuracies), Jay
Clements(?)/Twila(?)/(Tin Can? - for youth media), Collin Mulraney
(Digital Slideshows?)"

Perhaps you mean Irv Broughton (currently teaching at SFCC) and Twila
probably means Twa Le Abrahamson Native American who was on Democracy
Now with Amy Goodman recently discussing Uranium mining on the Rez.
Thought I would put my 2 cents in.
Looking forward to the next meeting.
Thanks



Robert Foote