CHALKBOARD STUDIOS

MEETING FOUR || we're coming to get you barbara!

as jase noted, we didn't cover as much stuff as we had hoped. but i think, considering we had to cram two and ahlf meetings into one, we did alright as far as that was concerned. the main issues dealt with in this meeting included:

(a) review the framework
(b) discuss art directiom
(c) six-month outlook
(d) character finalisation

we had a look at the framework briefly jsut to get the feel of how the story was developing and where it was headed. unforturnately we couldn't have spent more time on it, but i think with the printouts we all have now, we can manage by jsut reading them on our own and contacting jase to clear up any confusion.

we spent a bit of time going over the six-month plan, plotting our projected progress on a timeline that would eventually lead to publication around mid decemeber. jase had broken the workload into mothnly intervals, as well as both pre-production and production stages. after having a look at what was proposed, all of us agreed that if we stuck to our guns, the timeline would be feasible.

art-wise, jase had done some panel drawings for one of the characters. basically, we were trying to see what kind of 'feel' we wanted to give off with the visuals, and as jase had told the group, the subject matter of the story is kind of serious and heavy, which meant that a certain drawing style would have to be adopted to accommodate that. as it stands at the moment, simple lines and shading are looking like a viable option. but at next weeks meeting, vito will prob have centre stage presenting his concept sketches of the main characters based on the writers' character profiles.

jase and i had come up with seven characters, two written by myself, three by jase, and one by brendan. although we had pretty much gotten the basics of each of these characters (well, as of yesterday only four characters had 'official' profiles), there were specifics that needed to be addressed. i understand that a lot of this expository stuff will go unnoticed by many readers, but i think it was mainly for our benefit that the characters had depth - but not only that, that they were also believable and not cliched. and i think, with last night's meeting, we acheived that.

i think jase has since written up two more characters to make a complete main cast of seven. at next week's meeting we'll be looking at supporting characters, and possibly gathering location references for the art guys.

next week, the meeting will be on tuesday, which means we've got two less days to get our stuff together before our month-long break from meetings to focus on uni stuff and exams. this also means that we'll have to try and cover a lot of our bases on tuesday night, so when we reconvene after exams, we'll be able to get right back into it and get the ball rolling a lot quicker.

-LOki, writer.

posted by LOki @ 3:28 PM