SUMMARY OF MINUTES FROM MEETING ON 8/11/06

1. Society Officers
   Shelley McLaren has asked if she could be College Rep for Selwyn, although it is actually her husband who is the student there. We agreed that this was fine.
    
2. 48-Hour Competition
   §  Apple Facilities  Josh has said that Apple will lend us 4 computers with Final Cut Pro on the Sunday (19th November) of the 48-hour competition. Brian will try to book the Rylands Room in King's from 9am-8pm. One of the committtee needs to be there at all times so we have arranged a rota. We will also ask Josh if he can be there for some of the time himself.
   §  Practice  There are 3 computers with Final Cut Express in the PWF so it would be possible for contestants to get a little practice first. We should remind entrants that, for the competition as well as for using the PWF, they will need to bring their own external hard-drive. It is worth remembering that PC and Mac laptops and iPods may be used as external hard-drives.
   §  Screening  Kirsty will try to book the Grad Union for the screening at 8pm on 23rd November. (The CUSU website gives a list of rooms that can be booked.) Kirsty will also email Fatima about the possibility of booking a room at Trinity and Bella will try at Robinson.
    
3. Competitions Next Term
   §  Super 8  Rob will check with the developers in Switzerland to make sure that they are still running. If so, we should publicise the event this term to give people time to prepare a little.
   §  SocDocSoc and the 48-Hour  Owing to the large amount that we already have going on next term, it was felt that the best thing would be to support SocDocSoc by lending them equipment but not actually to run this competition as a joint Cinecam 48-hour. The current plan is to let the Super 8 Competition take the place of our Lent 48-hour.
   §  Scriptwriting Competition  We should begin publicising next term's Scriptwriting Competition, for which the deadline will be midnight on 31st January. Scripts should not be more than 10 pages long. We should remind people of what a proper script looks like (Josh should be providing some guidance on this.). The winning script will be made into a film funded by Cinecam.
    
4. Celtic Film for Downing May Ball
   §  Downing have asked if Cinecam would be interested in making a film for their May Ball - the theme would be 'Celtic' and they're looking for something up to 20 minutes long. There were several suggestions - that it could be made as a Cinecam film or that, if we couldn't make it, that maybe the Cambridge Filmmakers' Network might be interested. Bella is going to meet with them to get more specific details of the kind of film they would actually like.
    
5. Committee Formal
   We provisionally agreed on having a committee meal after the screening of 'Ghost World' on Monday 27th November. (The screening of 'Ghost World' would be moved forward to 7-9pm to accommodate this.) Rachel will organise specifics.
    
6. Accounts and Funding
   §  Chris was present at this meeting and it was agreed to have a more detailed accounts catch-up meeting with a subset of the committee on Monday 13th.
   §  There has still been no word from Meg. Brian has been in touch with our Senior Treasurer and we will now approach her again, copying him into correspondence.
   §  Bella has collected information on CUSU funding, which she has passed to Chris. We should apply for this soon.
    
7. Graphic Design
   Soheila will look at customising the Cinecam forum on Proboards - and also designing a poster for the 48-hour competition.
    
8. Equipment
   §  The old Cinecam camera is having problems with playback and digitising. (The recording function still works and tapes are not being damaged by the camera. It is still possible to digitise the recorded material, provided a different camera is used for this.) Rob will have a look at it and, if he cannot mend it, Salih will take it to Jessop's to get a quote.
   §  It seems that the AV/XLR connector may be broken, as it is nearly impossible to get a signal from the external mic into either of the Cinecam cameras. (The mic and cable are fine as they were tested over the summer.) The only other possibility is that the mic and cameras are simply incompatible. Salih will ask Jessop's about this problem also.
   §  We need a 4 to 4 cable for connecting the cameras to a PC laptop. Brian will purchase one.
   §  The head has been missing from the mini-tripod since the 48-hour competition. We need to track this down.