DSU Filmmakers
January 26th
3:00 p.m. Klinefelter 106

Members: Present: Josh Nichols, Chad Troftgruben, Justin Huber, Damien Winter, Nate Kostelecky, Malissa Nicholson, Meghan Heinle, Brittni Tank, Jess Bartholmy

Guests: Brandon Pelling

Material Distributed: Minutes, agenda, amendment I proposal, working release form for Halo tournament

The meeting was called to order at 3:00 pm on January 26th.

The minutes were reviewed and approved.

1. Chad spoke about the current status of Scrooge. If filming is completed by the beginning weeks of February he foresees a March release. He also spoke of the festival submission change. The executive board decided that the deadline for the Fargo film festival was not going to be reasonable so the search for more festivals began. Chad will be submitting Scrooge to the “Hey Mom” film festival. We also discussed the upcoming trailer, promo, and completed film showings which will be attached to CAB sponsored movies.
2. Because of our hectic agenda we weren’t able to decide upon a specific purpose for our fundraiser, that is of the equipment and projects the organization wants to purchase and participate in we aren’t sure of which we will be aiming for with our current fundraiser. The current fundraiser will be a Halo tournament. Our guest, Brandon Pelling, spoke of his ideas for the competition and we tried to come to a decision on issues concerning release forms, technical issues, format, location, rules, and many others. Again due to our heavy agenda we decided to make all final decisions at our next meeting.
3. The prospect of workshops was also discussed at the meeting. The three possible workshops that were discussed were a green screening, clay-mation, and flash cartooning workshops. Each were spoken of briefly, but will be further explained in the future when they are officially planned. Josh briefly mentioned the possibility of making classes out of the workshops due to their success. Charging a small fee to cover the topics covered in the workshops more in depth would be great fundraising for us and good use of our organization to further the campuses knowledge of filmmaking.
4. The clubs possible upcoming films were discussed. First on the list was Flashed. A work from the mind of Chad, this film will combine the world of Flash Macromedia and the real world in an epic war of the worlds type battle. Damien’s claymation/stop motion animation project will give our club experience in a untouched form of filmmaking, to us at least. Also breaking the usual comedic mold for our films Nate’s film about a boy dieing of cancer and spending his final moments with his film will surely be a pleasantly unexpected addition to our archive of movies. Inhabitance Bad was officially cancelled at this meeting. Chad gave up all right to the film in hopes that someone with interest will pick up the project and continue the work that we were not able to finish due to many unfortunate circumstances.
5. The member requirements were again briefly touched upon. More importantly the announcement was made of the DSU Filmmakers and I.M. Independent site merger. Because of the two organization close relationship it was more convenient for our web designer to update one site rather than two.
6. Our current treasurer has resigned from her post leaving a void in the executive board. The president asked for nomination with no response, interest in general was asked also with no response. Due to the lack of interest, amendment I was proposed. The amendment proposal seen below:

Amendment I.

In the even that a position on the executive board can not be filled, the 2 (two) remaining officers will take upon the duties of the absent officer until a replacement can be found. All privileges and duties of the executive board will remain the same except concerning voting. IN situation where the 3 (three) executive member are needed to vote upon an issue, the 2 (two) remaining officers will count for 2 (two) votes. The final executive vote will be the majority decision of the members of the organization that are present on voting day, the majority decision will count as 1 (one) executive vote.

The amendment will be voted on at the next meeting, which was decided to be on Wednesday February 2nd starting at 3:00pm.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 p.m.

Josh Nichols

DSU FIlmmakers