CHALKBOARD STUDIOS

MEETING SIX || welcome back

after a month-long intermission, meetings reconvened at Cookie.

we mentioned earlier that jase and i had gone out looking at what was available in the aussie comic scene, and one that caught out attention was "Dicks", by thomas bonin. jase had contaced him via e-mail and he came for a brief moment to our meeting. jase did most of the talking, so i'll leave it to him to elaborate, but from i gathered thomas seemed genuinely interested in what we were doing. thanks for coming thomas!

the meeting covered both the managerial (admin) side of things, as well as production. during the intermission, jase, mark and myself had gone through some business stuff, working out budgets etc. so when we started production, we'd be ready.

again, jase is in charge of that aspect of the firm and i'll let him explain the details if he wants to.

on to the pre/production side, we discussed the following:

WEEKLY SCHEDULES
initially we had started off with monthly outlooks, seeing what we would have done every 30 days or so. however, now that things are a lot more clearer the group that a weekly outlook would be much more productive and efficient.

ALLOCATION OF TASKS
since we now have a clearer idea of what we're doing, the allocation of tasks was possible. each memeber, both in teh writing and the art department is now able to work on something that will all be brought together later as we near production.

CHARACTER FINALISATION
again characters were discussed, and it was voiced that we needed to really finalise them. i think we do have a final list of main characters, though the supporting cast and misc. background kinda people are still hazy. but i think we'll only need 10 mins to arrive at a decisive conclusion.

SCRIPT/STORY
this mainly concerned the writers; we worked out "crunch time" where we'd get together for a few days in a row and write our asses off, trying to get as much done as we can. here also, the story can be solidified and the artists will have a very clear indication of what is expected of them.

CAVE TOUR/CAMP
as mentioned earlier, the cave tours will be from 24 - 26 june. we don't know where we're headed just yet, but will have a location by mid next week.

that's about it from me. things are moving smoothly now and that's a very comfy thing. again, welcome back guys and good to see we're already back in action.

-LOki, writer, project manager.

posted by LOki @ 3:48 PM