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I'm so sorry Brian and I could not make it to the Grubfest. We bought a new car and didn't calculate when we went in at 11 that morning that it would take until 4:30 that afternoon to actually get home from buying one. We wanted to be there, trust me..

But, I got a picture of us all at the wedding, thought I'd share it:



Take care all, and have a safe and happy summer to those of you leaving good ol' T-town for awhile.

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OFF THE SET FILMS
MAY MEETING NOTES - 5/4/2006

We had a pretty good turn out for the May meeting. We discussed A LOT and I think everyone is getting very excited about the future of Off the Set. Below I have typed out the notes from the meeting. Under each heading is a name and contact information to connect with the particular event or subject. So if you want more details on something specific, get in touch with the person(s) listed.

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EVENTS
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OTS Grubfest: Off the Grill Cookout

Who: ALL OF YOU
What: An end-of-the year celebration of OTS's accomplishments from the past year. We'll be cooking out, playing ball, and probably quoting movies and making everyone else guess them. Because that's what we do.
When: Saturday, May 13th - 1:00PM until
Where: Kentuck Park, Northport
Bring your own meat to grill and bring any baseball supplies you own!
There is a facebook event if you would like to be added and also an evite to which you can respond: OTS Grubfest Evite
I hope you all can make it! Again, EVERYONE INVITED!
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Sidewalk Deadline!

If you are interested in entering a film to the Sidewalk Film Festival, the last two deadlines are MAY 15TH & JUNE 1ST!
OTS films that are being submitted as of 5/4/2006:

Prize of the Capstone
Black Rock Creek
Roommates
Return to the Shadowed Pasture
The Dogwood Trees
Byron Wilburn and His Property Line
Rose (if completed in time)

Now, there is an entry fee for these films, so if you would like to contribute contact whoever is submitting the film(s) and Peyton Blankenship, OTS Treasurer.
Ben Stark - stark007@yahoo.com
Lee Fanning - erinyes04@aol.com
Peyton Blankenship - blank001@bama.ua.edu
*More details on contributing to the cost of film festivals below.

For more Sidewalk info: Sidewalk Film

If you plan on submitting a film, let us know! We would love to know who is and support you!
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PRESENT/UPCOMING PROJECTS
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Peace for Jonah Taylor - May 27th-28th
Jessica Richards - uaactor@gmail.com
Lee Fanning - erinyes04@aol.com

- There are still crew positions available. Lee will be contacting people by e-mail about filling those positions.
- We officially have a location to shoot the film. We will be using the Ferguson Theatre stage as a sound stage. So hip-hip hooray!
- Set Construction!
OTS will be constructing a set for the first time for Jonah. We need help doing this! Construction will take place from May 15th-18th as of now. The Sorrells have been gracious enough to allow us to use their back yard for the construction site.
So, if you're interested in helping and cursing Ben while he's on the beach, then e-mail Lee - erinyes04@aol.com or Jerrell - bowde002@bama.ua.edu
He will send out an e-mail with more information on this subject.
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Calm Before the Storm - May 30th - Huntsville
Lee Fanning - erinyes04@aol.com.
Cast and crew previously confirmed.
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It's On Fire! - One year ago
Lee Fanning - erinyes04@aol.com.
Lee said he was finishing it and I thought that was noteworthy. Eh?
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Torn - June 2nd-4th; 9th-11th
Jarrod Crowe - crowdog54@yahoo.com
- Directors: Ethan Crowe & Joy Travis
- Producers: Ethan Crowe & Michael Williams
- Associate Producers: Lee Fanning & Benjamin Stark
- Cast: Davis Manning, Angie Watkins
In limbo...details from Jarrod coming soon...
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Woman of the Woods - June 16th-18th (tentatively)
Jarrod Crowe - crowdog54@yahoo.com
Shendopen Films...ahem, details from Jarrod maybe coming soon?
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A Breeze to Stir the Soul - August 2006
Jarrod Crowe - crowdog54@yahoo.com
- Director: Micheal Williams
- Producer: Ethan Crowe & TBA
- Cast: Ethan Crowe, Davis Manning, Elle Morgan, Angie Watkins, TBA
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Death, the Killer, Loves the Gun - June 7th, 14th, & 24th (tentatively)
Benjamin Stark - stark007@yahoo.com
It will be produced throughout June.
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Sunday at Six O'clock (or is it 6:00, Ben?) - Early July
Benjamin Stark - stark007@yahoo.com
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Right Thing - TBA
David Kilgo - davek5823@yahoo.com
More details later...
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Untitled David and Jen Project - TBA
David Kilgo - davek5823@yahoo.com
More details later...
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Coming of Age - TBA
David Kilgo - davek5823@yahoo.com
- A 40-page script Dave is working on. Details later...
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Commercial & Music Video - TBA
Thomas Huggins - huggins114@comcast.net
- Tom needs four mascot costumes (preferably animals) and four actors (to be in the costumes, of course) for his commercial.
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Sterling Multimedia
Brian Sorrells - Briansterling2000@yahoo.com
Brian Sorrells will be starting his multimedia business very soon! He will be calling next week about a grant and is planning on being up-and-running by the end of June. He will be open to working with OTS. But we are not allowed to abuse his business.
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Untitled Wrestling Documentary - May 12th & June 25th (future dates will be added.)
Brian Sorrells - Briansterling2000@yahoo.com
Brian needs equipment and maybe some help (?) to shoot some footage for his documentary.
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Chase Man - End of summer/beginning of Fall
Brian Sorrells - Briansterling2000@yahoo.com
An action film in script stage.
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SHOWCASES
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Kerry Sims Memorial Showcase - June 14th (tentatively)
Ben Stark - stark007@yahoo.com
Lee Fanning - erinyes04@aol.com
- In memory of Kerry Sims, we will be showcasing his films along with a montage. Please send in comments about Kerry, and/or comments or questions about the showcase to Ben or Lee.
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Summer Showcase - Early August
offthesetfilms@yahoo.com
- If you want to submit something to the Showcase, plan on having it ready by early August. The Showcase will go over basically like the Spring Showcase, except we will also be accepting other student films besides OTS films.
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BUDGET
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OTS Treasurer: Peyton Blankenship - blank001@bama.ua.edu

OTS has $87.50.
$40 of the will go to the UA Ferguson Theatre to pay for the Showcase.
That leaves OTS with $47.50.

- A funding proposal was made by Peyton Blankenship to pay Jessica Richards $15 for a pattern used for a costume for Peace for Jonah Taylor. The pattern is vintage and had to be ordered off the Internet. The vote passed unanimously.

*- The question was brought up about who should pay for the entry fee to film festivals. It was decided that, because OTS is young, the individual filmmaker should pay. In the future, distribution costs will be budgeted.
- It was also decided that a minimum of 25% of the profit made from festivals will be given to OTS. If the contributor wants to give more, it will be graciously received. Contributors get a minimum of what they put in to pay for the festival costs.
- Lee suggested that money made from the festivals could be put towards equipment for OTS.
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PROMOTION/MARKETING
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Off the Set DVD - August
Jarrod Crowe - crowdog54@yahoo.com
Jessica Richards - uaactor@gmail.com
Ben Stark - stark007@yahoo.com
Brian Sorrells - Briansterling2000@yahoo.com

OTS will be producing a two-disc DVD over the summer to be given away by August. It was decided that we will not sell the DVDs; one because there is registered music in a couple of the films, and two, because OTS is young and right now, we want feedback and to get our name out there, not make a profit. However, donations WILL be accepted for the DVDs. They should be ready for distribution by the Summer Showcase.

Jarrod Crowe and Jessica Richards will be producing the DVDs. Brian Sorrells will be the technical director. Ben Stark will be contributing design plans.

***BUT LET IT BE KNOWN:
Even though Jarrod and I are producing the DVD, it's all of ours and that we will all get a large say in it. It will not be treated like a movie, it will be treated very communistically. So any input any of you want to give, then go for it!
This is all of our work and we should all have equal say in it.
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OTS Website

As you can see, our meeting notes are getting much more elaborate, which is a good thing. But OTS definitely needs a website.

I will be talking to Josh Converse about building a website for OTS. We would like for it to be up-and-running by June 1st. If Josh is not able to build it, Brian Sorrells and Tom Huggins will be in charge of building and maintaining the site.

It was also discovered that otsfilms.com has not been taken. It is now.

More details coming soon...
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OTS Catalog

Ben and Lee have begun compiling OTS productions and keeping up with clippings, promotions, etc. But it was decided that OTS needed a historian. Katie Hicks was nominated and voted into office.

So if you have anything you would like to discuss with Katie about cataloging OTS, e-mail her at kdhicks@bama.ua.edu.
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Calender

I am working on an OTS calender that you can all view and get an idea of what our weeks will look like. I may end up using the calender provided by this account until we have the website up which will definitely have a calender provided.

So more details on that coming soon...
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Congratulations to...

Lee and Peyton on their engagement!
Off the Set for a very successful Spring Showcase!
Brian and Kalee on their wedding!
Black Rock Creek for receiving the TCF Best Narrative Award!
David Possien and Steven Lucas for their nominations at the TCF Awards Showcase!
Katie Hicks for being elected as Historian!
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If you made it this far in the e-mail congratulations and thank you! I hope all of you are as excited as I am about the future of OTS! We have a lot to do this summer! Plan on a June meeting between the 1st and the 9th!

Have a great week!
- Jessica Richards
OTS Rep./Sec.

If you would like to be removed from the e-mail list, respond to this e-mail in a kind and friendly manner, and I'll think about it.

If you would like to send a donation to the fund in memory of Kerry, mail it to the address below with the check made out to Kristy Wells with a note informing her that it's for the Kerry Sims Memorial Fund. Because of Kerry's love of nature, the fund is going to the Montgomery Zoo. The money will go towards a rock or plaque of some sort that will probably be placed around the reptiles and/or snakes. This suits Kerry and is what he would have wanted.

Kristy Wells
c/o Montgomery Zoo
P.O. Box 3313
Montgomery, AL 36109

If you would like to send a card or something to Kerry's family, you can send it to his sister to the address below:

Gena Sims Williamson
445 Lakeview Drive
Hope Hull, AL 36043

Her contact numbers are:
(334) 467-8489
or
(334) 613-0535

Thanks, guys.
-Jessica

First of all, congratulations to Brian and Kalee! It was a beautiful ceremony and Off the Set wishes the two of you the best of luck!

Second, the Off the Set official e-mail address is up-and-running. Everyone should have access to the e-mail account. If not ,contact Ben or Jessica and they can give you the username and password.

Third, TCF Showcase! Support OTS at the Showcase! Wednesday, May 3rd at 6:30PM. Bama Theatre. $1.
(OTS in the paper)

Third, MAY MEETING! This Thursday, May 4th at 7:00PM. Location TBA. Be there...where ever "there" is.

Fourth, OTS Spring Grubfest! Check your e-mails and your facebooks for details. You should be bombarded with the information! If for some odd reason you haven't been, contact Jessica.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of one of our most beloved members of Off the Set, Kerry Sims. He passed away on Sunday, April 23rd. Cause of death is still unknown, though it is assumed presently that it was either an asthmatic attack or possibly an heart attack. Funeral arrangements are also undetermined at this time.

Please be in prayer for Kerry's friends and family. He will be deeply missed.

SHOWCASE RANKINGS:
Congratulations on a successful Showcase! I know Peyton, Jason, and I all wish we could have been there. We thought about pulling the fire alarm in the theatre so we could escape rehearsal, but the plan failed. And as Ben mentioned, a HUGE thanks to Tom for the meals afterwards! Greatly, greatly appreciated!

So here are the final rankings the audience gave the films and performers:

Top Films:
1) Roommates
2) Prize of the Capstone
2) 25
3) Return to the Shadowed Pasture
3) The Dogwood Trees
4) Memoria

Top Performances:
1) the toilet...J/K
1) David Kilgo
2) Ethan Crowe
3) Jon Chapman
4) Stephen Greer
4) Aaron Sherman
5) Jessica Richards
5) Jeremy Windham
5) Steven Lucus
5) Brian Sterling
5) Kerry Sims
5) Peyton Blankenship/Keith (RSP puppet)

So there you go, folks. Congratulations to the films and performers! I'm looking forward to the August Showcase!
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MONTHLY MEETING: YES? NO?
PLEASE RESPOND!!!
I know we just had a meeting for April, but May is next week so do we want to have a May meeting during Dead Week? Maybe to discuss the summer before classes end and we all go do our summer thang. It's up to you guys. Tuesday through Wednesday would probably be best. The UA Film & Video Showcase is the 4th, right? So I'm guessing not that night. If we do decide to have one next week, start sending me anything you want brought up at the meeting. I'll gather everything together and send out the topics that will be discussed so everyone will be prepared.
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OTS'S DISTURBING SILLY SCRIPT:
Oh and I found the "one-line-each" script in my purse that OTS wrote while eating at the Showcase Shindig. A bit disturbing...

A: This is not how you "woo" someone! You need to shave.
B: At least I trimmed under the balls.
C: Hey you guys need to chill.
B: Did you see Brokeback Mountain?
A: Was David Kilgo in that one?
C: Yeah, he was the "catcher" if you know what I mean.
A: That's disgusting...you got a match?
C: Hell yeah.
A: The fireman is holding a soccer ball and salsa!
B: I don't think we need this "C" character...someone just couldn't think of anything better.
C: I highly resent that. Wooo(?), I knock over your salsa!
A: Nooooo!! You heartless cad!
C: Hence, I am back in the script.
A: Not for long, you cad without a heart.
C: He has found my one flaw. Karate chop!
A: Blocked, you sans heart cad.
B: Stop it, you two! I oughta cut you both out!
C: Yeah so I bought 30 cases of pickles from the cannery(?) today.
B: You know, I am from the Piper Clan. Maybe you and I can discuss pickles later.
A: This is Alabama football.
B: This is worse than the time I played strip poker with Gary Coleman.
B: He dealt cards under the table.
C: But still came up short.
A: That's rude...but clever.
C: Gary Coleman is short.
C: Unlike my penis, such as it is.

Um...wow. I have nothing to follow that.

Have a fabtabulous week, OTS kids!
- Jessica

I could not find anything about taking up money on this webpage, can someone else use their good eyes to try and find it. If I know who to talk to, I can go talk to them and ask about accepting donations.

Event Policy

But I did find this.

Chalking

Chalking is a wonderful and inexpensive way to advertise or promote programs and events.

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Chalking is only permitted on natural gray concrete sidewalks and streets that are subject to being washed by the rain. No chalking can occur on sidewalks or building entrances that are covered by a shelter of any type.
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Absolutely no chalking is allowed on the Ferguson Plaza, Ferguson stairs or on the Crimson Promenade.
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Chalking is not permitted on any type of brick or concrete pavers.
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Chalking is not allowed on walls, doors, windows, trees or any other surfaces around Ferguson Center.
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The type of chalk used must be washable.
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Student organizations or who violate this policy may be charged for time and materials to remove the chalk. Failure to adhere to the guidelines may also result in disciplinary action according to the Code of Student Conduct.


-Your loving treasurer