meeting with Joeley/budget

I had a meeting with Joeley today to discuss how things were progressing with the art direction and set preparations. I've been aware that she has an enormous task and seeing how stressed she was while making Passing last semester, I was conscious to make sure that she had the support she needed.

She seemed fairly positive in the meeting, turning down any offers for help. We discussed what she had planned for set how she was getting on in finding the cheapest way for doing this, as well as actually purchasing props and arts/crafts materials and tools.

She seemed to have everything under control and had found a few good places to rent /borrow second hand furniture at a good price. Her main concern was the cost of paint. I suggested places such as B & M or Wilkinsons as B & Q would be a lot more expensive.

This led to discussing the budget, which was something I was concerned to get sorted asap. I had an idea in my head as to how much I would have liked each of use to pay (about £30) but this was nothing concrete as I wanted to hear from Joeley how much things cost and looked like they were going to cost. Joeley thought that it would be a bit more expensive than that, but not too much. We came to the max total of £250, meaning we would all pay £41. This is a lot of money, and I don;t think its fair to ask people to pay something that I'm not prepared to pay, so I told Joeley that I wanted her to get it as cheap as possible.

As to how things were going to be payed for in the first instance, Joeley and Ben had agreed to pay as they both had the money to do so. I told Joeley to hold on to the reciepts for now, to avoid any mix ups or reciepts being lost. At the end of the production, all the crew would then give me the money which I would distribute to both Ben and Joeley. This is what we did last semester, and it worked out well so we thought there was no need to change.