I just noticed I never introduce myself in my blog posts. Good
thing Julie covers that in the titles. Titles are important. How else
would you know what To Kill a Mockingbird was about?
Anyway,
what I'm going to talk about today: Meetings. I've had the privilege of
attending a few meetings regarding Warren. Not only do these allow me see how
the show has been progressing, they give me hope.
Yes, that is right. Hope. Let me explain:
Over
the past school year I worked with a number of other students to create
a film. My group was amazing - we managed to complete a good piece of
work on time with little drama between members. However there were still
bouts if indecision, squabbling and chaos that irked me. Sometimes
things would go offtrack and issues wouldn't get resolved, or there
would be arguments over details that no one could agree on. I was
vaguely worried that this is what it would be like in an actual work
environment.
Meetings for Warren have been different. Julie comes in with notes and a list of all the assets that have been completed written down. Just
with that these meetings have structure. Everyone sees the score, and
what needs to be addressed gets addressed. People still discuss things
amongst themselves and give suggestions and input, but the ones in
charge are the ones who make the calls. I feel these things give
meetings at Smiley Guy a different dynamic than the meetings I had at
school. In a lot of ways my experience with both has been similar, but
in these ways they are not.
This makes me glad. Overall the
group film meetings were great, but for awhile I was fearful that actual
studios had those problems. I'm sure they do. I've only actually been
to three meetings at SGS - for all I know everyone is just behaving in
front of the interns. Maybe it's different at various stages of
production. Maybe they do crop up, but so far so good. I'm sure I will
see for myself someday!
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