Milestone: Arriving at a workable business idea

Dear Shareholders,

After about 2 weeks of brainstorming, ideating, field visits,we have arrived at a workable business proposition. We will take a turn towards creative direction, and start building up in that direction. We are going to make micro-movies of various formats (sub minute, 2 minute, 5 minute, fit for TV, fit for movies, Mobile economy-MMS etc), on a variety of topics. These micro-movies would be shot using ordinary digital cameras, or maybe even mobile phone.

Using Windows Movie Maker we will process them, and give it finishing touches. Once we have mastered the art, we will offer the program to a larger creative audience, and at the same time discover markets for them.

The topics/themes could be:
a. Commercial Ad ideas
b. Entertainment
c. Talent Exhibition
d. Educational Concepts
e. Promotion of Social Causes
f. Commentary on Daily News

We also need to create an organization to do it professionally. The streams that would be required
a. Script Writers
b. Music Scores Creators
c. Actors
d. Editing & Technical Staff
f. Marketing Field Force

This would help us create an organization., and give us branding, when we can move into full scale commercial movie production.

I consider this as another milestone in the short evolution timeline of Bollyscope.


Rohit Tripathy

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Account status details

Currently we have 26 shareholders.
Total amount at hand is Rs 1,32,850--shares of worth Rs 1,28,000 and option premium as Rs. 4050.
Amount spent till is Rs. 450.
Cash at hand is Rs. 3550 and rest of the amount Rs 1,28,850 is in Jubin's account.

Persons requiring reimbursement kindly make a plain-paper signed voucher with detail itemised list of expenses and submit to me.
Reimburse will be done subsequently.
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Sankha

Company registration - from the legal cell

We have sent all the documents and related information to CS for starting the company registration process.
For preparing the Memorenda of Association, we need clearly defined objectives of the company. So, I would request all to put this up in next meeting agenda.

Thanks
Rahul

Message for Siddharth

Hi Siddhartha,

Thanks for yesterdays creative session. Your videos were very appealing. It has opened a lot of new avenues for Bollyscope.

Couple of thoughts on video that you presented..
a. the sound in the videos presented yesterday needs redoing. There was a lot of white noise in the background.
b. We may have to re-record the sound , and lip synch it by muting the video
c. The colors have to be enriched. We will have to figure out a software for that.

In addition to Windows Movie Maker, please use these also which will help in audio editing & video finishing. You can search google and download them. They are all freewares.


VIRTUALDUB
VirtualDub is an easy to use video capturing and processing program that works with any Video for Windows compatible device. It helps you to get video onto your computer by capturing it from a source like your web cam or other input device, and also to edit existing video files you may have. Capturing features include fractional frame rates, optimized disk access, create AVI2 (OpenDML), integrated volume meter and histogram for input level monitoring as well as Real-time downsizing, noise reduction, field swapping and more. Editing functions include AVI2 read/write/, integrated MPEG-1 and Motion-JPEG decoders and an extensive video filter set, including blur, sharpen, emboss, smooth, 3x3 convolution, flip, resize rotate, brightness/contrast, levels, deinterlace, and threshold. You can also remove and replace audio tracks without touching the video and apply bilinear and bicubic resampling without blocky resizes or rotates. In addition, you can decompress and recompress both audio and video, remove segments of a video clip and save the rest, without recompressing as well as preview the results, with live audio and more.

MESSER
Messer (Memo Session Sound Recorder ) is a software for for scheduled sound recording on PC. You can record from your PCs soundcard and output directly to PCM (.wav) or MP3 format. It can automatically stop and start recording at a choosen moment, optionally do simple processing on just recorded file (normalizing, mp3 compression..), then wait for another scheduled "recording session" and finally shut down the computer. Messer can do on-the-fly MP3 encoding


AUDACITY
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.


Thanks,

Rohit Tripathy

will open a promotional company which will organise a contest on a weekly basis in which one theme will be given by us to all upcoming creative directors, and the top five movies on any particular theme will be shown on a TV channel.
Siddhartha

Shift towards creative direction

After todays night discussions, it is felt that we should expand the basket of ideas we have along with Bollywood Tourism. Siddhartha showcased his creative videos which he had offered to Bollyscope as part of its intellectual property. These will be uploaded on Youtube.

Also, a deeper understanding of market is required. We need market understanding of the following:
a. Short Programs to the tune of half an hour
b. Advertisements
c. Full scale movies
d. Radio programs

Also, a ideation session will be done on innovative movie fund raising methods. Two mechansims have been suggested till now.
a. Retail Raising: Ordianry people will be asked to invest in a venture, and venture profits will be distributed to them.
b. Network Marketing methods: A network chain would be created, and a person higher on the network chain gets more.

More mechanisms are requested to be posted as comments.