6th January

In todays meetings I discussed ways to market our webisodes, write the script and characters. The group was split into Two groups, one Marketing the other Script Writing and titles I was in this one. Firstly I wanted to finalise the character profiles as I need these before I start scripting. I had 6 or 7 different ideas for characters but felt we need to only have 5. In our meeting I gave the class character profiles, though we still weren't completely sure which characters I'd be using.

These are the five characters I've decided on:

keith:
caffiene addict, drinks coffee when ever he can
stressed, quite jumpy
occationally has anxiety attacks with cause him to rash out
talks to much and talks very quickly, hard to make out at times
doesn't have a main character they talk to or disscuss, talks to everyone
sonny doesn't like keith

sonny:
each episode contains a flashback of how sonny got the detention
the detention in the flashback is riciculous
can get agressive at times. very agressive
each episode has a rumour about him. each rumour will be ludicrous
each rumour will have it's own nickname which sonny will react to
sonny doesn't get on will anyone really, but doesn't get on with valerie at all


pier:
known as the great escape guy
draws up crazy schemes to escape detention, he'll always think his idea is better than going through the door
qoutes prison films: the great escape,
quotes a line from shawshank redemption each episode that bugs keith

valerie:
rotten punk character, trouble maker
doesn't respond well to others being around her
she doesn't enjoy sonny's company very much
likes getting people in trouble

vince:
vince is a paranoid pesemistic
he talks mostly to pier, he responds badly to pier's escape plans
dismissing them as dangerous
wears a strainer on his head with tin foil to protect himself
very calm with his approach
believes spies are after him

We managed to write a brief outline of ideas about what could happen in the first episode. The first episode would be establishing the 5 regular characters so that the audience know what the webisode is about.
In the meetings before hand weren't going to well as people didn't vote or held back on their opinion till after the meetings, which annoyed me as it stopped me from working effecitvely due to having no input from class members then having to have another meeting as they had complained about decisions I'd made then have an opinion afterward. This was sorted out by saying how each of us felt and then compromised.

An on going arguement/discussion throughout the lesson was thinking for a title. The group came up with two The Regulars and Detention Deficit. When the group voted, I voted detention deficit, there wasn't enough votes on one side or the other. So we came up with a compromise The Detention Deficit, even though I didn't mind this title, I laughed a lot when I realised people voted for a name which people didnt even understand let alone know the meaning of the word deficit. I also realised Detention Deficit is the complete opposite to what the show is about as deficit is a lack of, so a lack of detention, whereas the people in the show are constantly in detention, this seems slightly odd, but this was soon saved as I was told it was IRONIC.