Date: 7th May 2009, 8pm
Happening fellas present at FOUR (Alex & Grace’s house): Alex Lam, Grace Tan, Mark Leo, Mun Tzin, Johan Sopiee, Dee, Mun Keat, Yung Yaw, Kaz Campbell, Raymond Khor, Nick Chan and Kee Sitt (via Skype from Penang)

PR and media -

• Kaz can talk to Visithra about media coverage
• Grace has spoken to Glen about getting coverage from theStar either coverage before the event or coverage on the day itself

Ideas and sessions

• Kaz - and a session for selling 2nd hand books. Perhaps can combine with Johan’s 2nd hand equipment session
• Grace - Have a wall for people to put up their portfolios (A4 prints). Decided it will be 4R sized.
• Kaz - send the invite out to Ted Adnan as well as Syahrin Aziz
• We propose that Zach will speak on how to pose couples and have a live session
• Grace - Should we get the gown makers “Dennis & Kris” to share about gowns and wedding gowns
• Kaz - Syahrin can talk about how to shoot video with the 5D Mk2
• Asther / Mun Keat - sharing a slot to speak
• Empty sessions - to be used for practical sessions where you split the room in 2 and they do a shoot out and compete against each other
• Sharing our first photography experience (1st great and 1st horror) - 1st sessions
• Session - share your funniest moments in a wedding while on a shoot
• For dinner on Saturday, we propose going to McDonald’s as it will be easier to just walk over.

Logo

• We cannot have gradients in the logo as printing will be expensive. After voting, it was decided that the logo will be a blend between AY1 and AY2

Hi everyone,

If you’re keen to help out and be part of this unconference, please do swing by for an informal meet up at Alex and Grace’s house. Don’t worry even if you haven’t been to any of the previous meetings, we’re friendly and crazy at the same time.

Details of the meeting:

Date: Thursday, 7th May 2009
Time: 8pm

Venue: Taman Megah (email admin@shootfest.org for the address. Yes we’re paranoid about crazy people)

Topics of discussion:

• F&B
• Finalizing the logo and T-shirts
• Registrations thus far
• The schedule
• Sponsorship
• Roles and responsibilities
• Press & media coverage
• AOB (etc, etc…)

If you can come, leave a comment here, please…

The hunt for the best logo has started and we have a few other designs that have been submitted by different people so far. What do you think of these designs so far? Which is your favourite? Vote here by leaving a comment.

Mark Leo

Andy Chin

Grace Tan

Jon Low

Zach Chin

If you are interested to sign-up for ShootFest, please do so here. Places are limited and it will be on a first-come-first-served basis.The organisers will contact you and confirm your registration upon receiving payment. Should your registration not be accepted due to our space constraints, you will be refunded in full.

Here’s a super funny submission by our great pal, Johan. It sure gave us comic relief for the day!

Hi Grace & Alex!

errr… sorry my photoshop skills are not that good yet.. hehe

here’s my 2 cents worth..

Johan

PS - the “are you headed for the wedding?” should be in a speech bubble but i dunno where to find it in photoshop..

Just a rough design for the t-shirt or logo for ShootFest using photoshop, not the refined version though. The second O is actually like the aperture of the camera lens and the first O probably can represent the videocamera on a glidecam or something, not sure bout it. Hope i can do more but i am off to Bali tmrw and since dateline is Tuesday this is the best i can offer for now. I will still keep on thinking and i am sure you guys will come out with more great ideas. Alrighty, gotta rest before my Bali trip.

Comments are very well welcomed of course!,

Date: 26th April 2009, 9pm
Happening fellas present at FOUR (Alex & Grace’s house): Alex Lam, Grace Tan, Jon Low, Mark Leo, Zach Chin, Mun Tzin, Johan Sopiee, Dee, Mun Keat, Weng Yap, Pei Yuh, Joseph Siew and Ian Chong (via Skype from Singapore)

We had a great time just chatting and getting to know one another. In between the silly things we did, some serious points were drawn out.

• Jon showed us his design for the website - VERY NICE. *clap clap*. It will be ready sometime this week.
• A fair bit of content has been written already by Alex and Grace. More to come and be laid out nicely.
• Grace has drafted out letters that will be sent to various photographers and videographers, asking them to get involved with the unconference. Everyone can help and send out mailers using her template.
• Sponsorship - if anyone has contacts for the marketing departments of media-related companies, let’s contact them and see if they are willing to be sponsors. If not, we’ll target the next ShootFest to get sponsors.
• Joseph will speak to Canon to see if they can run a hands-on-session for everyone to try out their range of lenses. Can anyone contact Nikon, Sony, Olympus, etc…?
• Proposed logo designs need to be in by Wednesday - Grace, Zach, Jon and Joseph will conceptualize something.
• We discussed a possible list of topics, and some booked sessions already.
• As fillers, we will screen DVDs of photography/videography training. Jon/Mark will ask ShaolinTiger if we can borrow his Strobist series while Grace will ask Jenny Sun if we can borrow some of her DVDs. Kee Sitt will look into the video training DVDs.
• Weng Yap and Pei Yuh will assist with printing the T-shirts. Cost for a dry-fit with simple design can range from RM20-25 each.
• Publicity of the ShootFest will commence at the end of the week.
• Does anyone have contact with the media? Can we get some press publicity for this?

Thanks for taking the behind the scenes photo, Johan. On the wall, that’s Ian from Singapore who joined us on Skype via projector

Who are the people behind the sessions? Find out here. We have more speakers that will keep on getting added here, as and when we get their pictures and profile information. Do come back here again!

Alex Lam

Asther Lau

Danny Chew

Dennis Thean

Fiona Lim

Grace Tan

Jenny Sun

Johan Sopiee

Jon Low

Kaz Campbell

Kee Sitt, Lim

Kenneth Hiew

Kris Wong

Mark Leo

Visithra

William G.

Bear in mind: A ShootFest is always about enriching each other, and not for personal gain alone.

If you wish to speak in a session, we thank you for doing so and spending time to prepare your content. However, please do abide by the following:

• Please do not overtly advertise your own products and services, this is not a time to market yourself, but rather the knowledge you have gained. You may introduce what you do and represent in your intro about yourself.
• Stick to the upper boundary for time, if you finish earlier, it’s fine. Everyone can spend some time to mingle. However, if your session will only be approx half an hour, let us know, so we can slot in another speaker in the same one-hour slot.
• If you have your own laptop, please make sure you bring any necessary dongles to connect your notebook to the projector (VGA port).
• A whiteboard will be provided, should you need.
• If you are not bringing a laptop, we will have laptops equipped with PowerPoint and Keynote, if you need any other software, do let us know in advance.
• Your slides will be placed on SlideShare so that others can download them. Please pass a copy to Zach Chin before you leave.
• Above all, keep it informal, have fun and don’t worry about making mistakes. You’re not the president of the United States (though I wish you were).

* A good place to be inspired for beautiful slides is Presentation Zen

ShootFests are always participant-driven, but we still do need to have some chief shepherds to steer the sheep, lest we all go astray. Here are some of the wonderful, wonderful people who have offered their time and effort to make this happen.