Ninja shoot was fun!

Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop
Sunday, May 07, 2006, 2:00, Flying Monkey Arts Center

Type of meeting
Workshop
Meeting called by
James N. Reynolds
Attendees

Alan
Chad
William
Chris
Brent
Stanley
Tina
Michael
Jim
Don



Topics
Num.
Topic
Responsible
1.
Meetings will be the
2nd Sunday
of the month from now on. There's been and will be too many conflicts with Flying Monkey events and cleaning days, hence the reason for the change.

Resigned as the Secretary and from the Board of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op (which is still looking for more active board members). Will continue to unlock the doors for the workshops. Brought his new camera to shoot with.
Jim, from Catherine S.

Jim
2.
Found out the main frustration of making a no-budget film-just getting people to show up when there's no money or alcohol involved.

Brought her script, camera and Michael.
Tina
3.
Of the deadworkers party brought a really nice camera and tripod to shoot with.
Brent, Boxxy
4.
Brought his camera, tripod, and cart for tracking and dolly shots.
Stanley
5.
Brought a lot of weapon props for the ninjas to use.
Allen B.
6.
Helped Jim with borrowing and finding the ninja costumes from Crash Boom Bang.
Matt of the Crash Boom Bang theatre troupe.
7.
Showed Chad the film co-op library.
Jim
8.
Wore a ninja costume and acted as one of the main ninjas.
Allen B.
9.
Wore a ninja costume and acted as one of the main ninjas.
Chris B.
10.
Acted as the Director from her script.
Tina L.
11.
Shot several scenes and takes from Tina's script.
Everyone
12.
Got lots of close-ups and good overall shots.
Brent
13.
Get throats cut as ninja 1 chases ninja 2 offstage
Chad, Michael, and Boxxy
14.
Lots of fight mock-ups to composite together since we only had two ninja costumes.
Allen B., Chris B.
15.
Briefly was a ninja during the film co-op green screen pre-fight segment.
Anna Sue
16.
Suggests everyone posting their raw footage to www.archive.org
and tagging with the key words: ninjas, raw footage, film coop, film co-op, Alabama filmmakers Co-op, cc by-nc-sa

That last is Creative Commons, attribution, non-commerical, share-alike.

Which lets anyone edit the footage together and make their own works as long as they don't make any money off it and their works carry the same license.

Select the license after its been uploaded if you need to.

Using the new Creative Commons publisher 2.0 it's really easy to upload after you sign up to the Internet Archive (well, well worth it.)

Preferably in MP2 or MPEG formant, since those take less space and are more ubiquitous codecs that can be used for editing. Add any other additional formats you may wish, however.

Jim
17.
Told Brent and meant everyone else to know that each month the film co-op workshop provides the time and workspace for making a short, short film once a month. Ideally, once every to every other month for each year until we can put DVD anthologies to sell (a percentage will go to the film co-op to cover space rental and equipment [i.e. The green screen, etc.] only, the rest to be split between the directors or production companies)
Jim
18.
Remember to check and post (please, others, post as much as you can, especially about your projects and useful information, like your podcasts or homepages, vlogs, videos, etc.)
filmcoop.blogspot.com
and the livejournal
film co-op community
Jim

Additional information:

The next scheduled meeting of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop :
Sunday, June 11, 2006, 2:00, at the Flying Monkey Arts Center