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Production Meeting 1

Production Meeting One. 

Mission Control was chosen for the project, so as a class we've had our first group meeting to address any immediate jobs.
To begin, myself, the director Lauren, production manager Michael and PA/AP Esme had a mini meeting to agree on what needs to be addressed first. We agreed on discussing the following:
  • Agreeing on the games
  • Creating a more detailed running order
  • Camera position research for both children's TV shows and sci-fi programmes 
  • Everyone to look at the show moodboards
  • Begin the style bible
  • Look into where we can promote the show and also for contestants
  • Set up a shared google drive and contact list
  • Begin a presentation for the design team
    • Is it possible to have special effects?
  • Create a physical information book to stay in the baseroom for the whole class to refer to
  • Decide on how many cameras will be needed
My own highest priority was to settle on what I wanted the games to be, as I wasn't completely convinced that the ones I'd gone with were interesting enough. I wanted more exciting and challenging games than the ones I'd gone with, so within the meeting we discussed this and Helen helped me to develop the games to what they are currently:

  • Mission 1: An obstacle course over a 'broken' part of the ship
  • Mission 2: A locked ship door with a code to open
  • Mission 3: A large-scale puzzle wherein to 'rebuild the engine'
  • Mission 4: A large board with asteroids that disappear after a set time and the team have to remember the safe journey 'back to earth'
Secondly, I tasked the camera operators and Director of Photography Harvey with researching the camera techniques of children's game shows and also sci-fi programmes and films, as I was hoping that we might be able to integrate styles from both to convey the show style clearly to the viewer and bring both aspects together. From this, I was also hoping that we would be able to decide on how many cameras we were going to need.
I also think as I have very visual plans for the show and set I need everyone to understand how I want it to look so that we all have something to work towards, so I've asked the design team to begin a style bible and pay attention to the moodboards that I've already created so that everyone has somewhere that they can reference any visuals for the show from. 
Michael set up a shared Google Drive folder for us so that we could all share any paperwork that we had and so that everyone was on the same page with any pre-production that was made, and also collected everyone's contact details to go in the folder.
Myself and Lauren decided to get started on a presentation that we can give to the design students in Rochester so that they can get a better idea of our visualisation of the programme and how we want the set to look. This will take a bit longer as there are a few more things that need to be settled on before this is finished but we wanted to get a head-start.
Finally, we have all agreed to have a physical reference book in the baseroom that has our contact details, a printed version of the style bible, and any other material that could be used for the whole team to reference from.
To conclude, we were able to make some good developments even though it was only the first meeting, and everyone now has tasks to be getting on with that we can reflect back on in our next meeting.
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