DSF EXEC MEETING MINUTES – Thursday, 26th January, 2012
by Eleanor “Smelly” Onions – Secretary

2:05 pm – Ellie arrives at the Techno Café. Will and Frances are already there. Where is Lyle?
2:07 pm – Lyle arrives.
2:08 pm – Ellie realises she doesn’t have her phone. She is distressed about the hundreds of messages she must be missing from people.* Also her minutes will be inaccurate.
2:10 pm – Frances asks ‘Where the hell is Caleb? I came back from Newcastle to meet him! He has to give me a tripod.’ The tripod is for Frances’ feature on Klute for PTv (yay).
2:13 pm – Caleb arrives.
2:14 pm – Ellie raises DDF issues. Will agrees that we should pay a bit towards the documentary workshop, but would like all the details before we pay. Lyle agrees to edit together clips of DST for the DDF publicity video. This is because Lyle is a fresher and less busy than everyone else. Also because he is helpful and nice.
2:17 pm – The exec go off on a tangent. Will needs to learn how to cite more sources in essays. Lyle needs to learn how to use the library. Will then discusses who has turned down the OBE (Phillip Larkin? Hitchcock?!) The meeting needs to be refocused.
2:20 pm – The meeting has focussed on the Vane Tempest booking. Ellie has emailed multiple wrong email addresses and has not heard anything back.**
2:25 pm – The Film Festival is next week. This is a surprise to Will, as he thought it was the week after. The rest of the exec are a bit concerned for Will’s sanity. The Film Festival is discussed. Will will (!) put together a schedule and email it to Ellie to see if we need to book Vane Tempest for longer. We might have too many films now. That’s a surprise to the entire exec.
2:27 pm – Ellie needs to ask Alex about Oklahoma editing. It sounded like a mammoth task at the meeting on Monday. It is agreed that everyone is concerned about how that will turn out.
2:29 pm – What awards will we have? The issue is raised and ignored.
2:30 pm – The entire DSF crew will have to send out the trailer. Will decides to make an event for the film screening. Caleb reiterates how he has been updating the website. Well done Caleb.
2:31 pm – Will needs a photo for the film screening. He is going to choose a photo of a dog. Ellie objects.
2:32 pm – Frances leaves. To do PTv stuff (yay).
2:33 pm – Will has chosen a ‘generic’ photo. He is not happy. Ellie is happy.
2:34 pm – The meeting digresses with Frances’ absence. Caleb discusses his ‘rockin’ new intro for Blurred Vision. Ellie is sceptical but intrigued.
2:40 pm – Will brings up the topic of Ellie’s dissertation. The meeting digresses further. What is truth? What is reality? What is literary truth? Ellie has had enough of these questions. She asks about Friday.
2:47 pm – On Friday, Ellie will set up the seats for the screening, as Will is running the workshop. Lyle will meet Sandie and Ken, and will organise times for other DSF members to entertain them.
2:50 pm – At the Monday meeting, roles will be assigned to members. One role will be to set up the projector and screen. We do not have this yet. Will will (!) work on getting this.
2:52 pm – There is a minor digression as the group reflects on Lyle’s use of ‘wee’. Lyle is Scottish. Lyle says ‘wee’. Lyle does not say ‘och aye’. Scottish people do not say ‘och aye’. Will, Caleb, and Ellie have learnt something.
2:56 pm – The other tasks will be to b) get sweets and popcorn, and have an intro from Caleb and Lyle. Danford, Owain, Adam and other techies will take care of the sound system, hopefully.
2:58 pm – Caleb has to leave. Ellie has to leave. The meeting is over. The film festival is next week. Wow.

*Ellie had one notification and one message – an invite to the Film Screening from Will, and a text from Caleb saying ‘Don’t forget to do the interviews for the DFF PTv feature’. This is rather unhelpful as Ellie has arrived at home.
**Ellie phoned Kayleigh Waite who confirmed she was still reorganising bookings and will email shortly. At 12:26 pm, she had not emailed. Ellie has heard back from the Careers Service though: they will publicise the workshop.

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