Please buckle your seatbelts before we taxi this big silver bird onto the runway and zwoom! into the promising blue of a crisp dawn – oh wait, jet flight is a huge contributor to climate change, metaphor fail.
Dr Strangelove, 1964, Stanley Kubrick
Or maybe this?
Last Thursday December 11, 2014, Award Winning Filmmaker Jennifer Cummins led a plucky band of intrepid explorers to the conference room above Cuppa Joes, there to establish base camp in preparation for an all out assault on the brooding, snow shrouded and as yet unconquered summits of M3.
Lost Horizon, 1937, Frank Capra
Anyway, last Thursday we brainstormed. Jen Cummins brought an industrial quantity of coffee, a crate of personal stroodles and an ambitious agenda for jump starting Michigan Movie Makers. Also attending were J. Mark Eiden, Krystn Madrine, Kali Svec with Justin the boyfriend, Mike Kroes, Dan Kelly, Aaron Dennis, Robin Pearson, Dan Pearson, Amber Elliot, and Jeff Morgan. A crazy amount of gumption was extant, with folks stepping up and taking on all manner of exciting outcomes.
Here are the top three short term goals.
What’s going on in our film community
How to hire people (resources, etc)
Advocacy
Three teams were proposed – Marketing and Public Relations, Information Technology and Community… but we didn’t stop with important sounding names! Each team has been populated by people who are actually going to do useful stuff! To wit…
Jeff Morgan assisted by Amber Elliot are the self proclaimed Bad Guys, which I think means they are going to start building a vetted list of who’s able to do what in our community so that M3 can become the go to resource when visiting productions need to find local talent. This might happen in conjunction with or as a prelude to the mythic searchable talent database we’ve so often dreamed of. See Spiderman issue #2045, LinkedIn vs Ed Kaufmann.
Amber has also offered to get our branding amped up and consistent with overarching art direction, with implementation by Aaron Dennis. That means a facelift on this blog for starters. So though existing content will persist, look for big changes in the weeks to come.
Mike Kroes is going to be our press release maestro. All the 20th century media channels are going to start hearing from us regularly. If you have a bit of exciting news, post it to the blog and then email Mike. He’ll check it out, perhaps suggest changes for clarity and then push it out to TV, print and radio. Amber will equip Mike with the latest media list from her personal producer for hire kit. Robin Pearson will explore the possibility of producing audio / video versions of our releases for distribution by radio and UpNorth Media.
Meanwhile, here in the 21 century we’ve got to tame the seemingly endless and ever transient social media implementations with solid M3 interfacing. Krystn Madrine and Kali Svec have stepped up to wrangle that. Some newfangled gizmo Hootsuite was mentioned.
Mark Eiden has graciously and bravely offered to be our Treasurer! That means he will set up a DBA, get a bank account, collect donations and membership fees once we’ve established what those fees might be and handle basic accounting so that he’s not paying taxes on all that. Whoop!
Dan Kelly will continue to post meeting schedules and notes/news to the blog, social media and to the mailing list via Mailchimp.
Here’s some other random topics to spark inspiration.
Affinity / Community, events, meetings, out of isolation, potential team, go to resource – jobs $, gate keepers upstate downstate, party to network, why come – perceived value, the M3 list – who gets to be on it?, forum, productivity and process, what are we, high end, quality – vetting, review.
Next meeting is this Wednesday December 17, 6:30-8:30, location TBA but most likely in the conference room above Cuppa Joes in the Commons, stayed tuned for updates and a reminder the day of.
Hudsucker Proxy, 1994, Cohen Brothers and Sam Raimi direction
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