Vague Ideas over Burgers

Beer and burgers replaced pizza as fuel for the meeting at B&D Burgers in Savannah. Though parking was a pain to suffer through, the amicable atmosphere between the interns soon made up for it. At this meeting, each intern pitched their more concrete ideas for the solutions that were enhanced at the previous meeting.

Ideas were still vague but slowly after back and forth of concepts and parts that needed to be stressed they became more concrete in the second floor of the burger joint. Though the final film idea for each solution won’t be voted upon until later; the brainstorm of ideas coming on in full force results in hilarity and out of the box ideas.

Polaroids were even taken as a flashback to simpler times in cinematography. Beers were sampled and happy hour enjoyed by some.

Rainy Day, Pizza, Brainstorms

The storm raging outside didn’t affect the shark tank inside the Hamilton Hall fishbowl. Fueled and energized by every college student's favorite food...pizza! With the exceptionally greasy pizza of Sweet Melissa’s pumping through their veins the Ocean Exchange Film Interns brainstormed potential movie ideas for the ten finalists. Each intern had claimed a finalist solution to present the basic summary and a handful of potential pitches for it at this nights meeting.

Interns bonding and joking over greasy pizza before brainstorming begins.

Listening to the basic summary presentations of a finalists research submission.

Though some solutions may have required a Ph.D. to decipher, the pizza fueled brainpower helped see the interns into burning the midnight oils. Ideas are limitless, especially when digital effects are involved. Ideas tossed about included superheroes, sign twirler competitions, Michael Bolton torture, and a LEGO movie parody.

Attempting to decipher the finalists submitted research...

Not managing it...

Not impressed by it...

Bouncing ideas about, the interns strove to find the main purpose of each solution to determine the main focus of the film. Adviser, Mehmet Caglayan, pushed the students to think about their senses and the scale, how they could make the solutions tangible. He told the students not to take the solutions too literally.

Interns bouncing ideas off of each other for possible short film scenarios.

Listening to Mehmet urge them to find the main purpose of the research and submission idea.

The rain outside soon faded as the brainstorm session drew to a close. Each person left, tasked with the need to nail down on the film ideas that had been brought to attention and approved of by the rest of the group.

First Meeting

The day was like any other Tuesday, warm and unbecoming. Unbeknownst to the country club members of Grand Lake Lodge Club House, in the very ballroom above them a new adventure was being embarked upon. Savannah College of Art and Design students were gathering as participants of Ocean Exchanges Film Internship. These interns would be called upon to create ten short two minute films for the ten finalists in the Ocean Exchange. Even the unpleasant aromas of the tiny elevator could not deter the brilliance and excitement that radiated off of the students.

Introductions were made and torture methods discussed. It was necessary after all to determine the best form of punishment for those who arrived late. The current group, though there are spots still open for it to grow, currently consists of Quentin Tarantino fans, cat lovers, and gamers. After going over the finalists list, the meeting was adjourned and the majority of the group departed for pizza.

Pizza is after all the fuel of college students, building friendships and keeping blood sugar up since the very beginning of time. Riverboat Pizza Company provided delicious pizzas and absurdly large calzones, though they had no bread to satisfy the sandwich requests. 

The original group of interns....but more were to come later.