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Report of Meetings
We kept in close contact through texting and face to face interaction through late October and all of November. As we are in the same fraternity, we saw each other often and were able to communicate possible scheduling problems.

First meeting - 11/4 We delegated the roles of the assignment and set up a schedule to meet after each class for 5 minutes in order to discuss progress and provide feedback. Jonathan Hayne took responsibility for the costume design, while Luke Lujan took responsibility of set and lighting design, and we decided to make the eighth individual responsibility a joint responsibility as there was no fair way to divide the work between us. We did a brief background research into the Author, Harold Pinter and his previous works. We decided that we would meet in Myers Hall to conduct these sessions every Tuesday. We set a goal to have read and researched other productions of Old Times before the next meeting. We decided to create a brief bulleted list of meeting dates, accomplishments and goals.

Second Meeting 11/11- After presenting our thoughts and opinions of Old Times to one another we began to focus on individual research and interpretation of the play. We scheduled to focus on completing our individual assignments by 11/20 and knock out the third joint responsibility on 11/18.

Third Meeting 11/18 - On this day after class we completed joint responsibility 3, the location and production audience. We created the document in an open discussion, bouncing ideas off each other and writing down relevant thoughts. We then composed these ideas into essay form and proofread them together. We decided to continue doing joint responsibilities in this manner because it sparked creative discussion and forced us to reflect deeply on the subjects at hand. It also created a check so that any sub par or nonsensical ideas of one person could be edited or eliminated by the other. We decided that in lieu of class on 11/20 we would begin to work on joint responsibility 2, the concept statement, and responsibility 4, the ideal actors.

Fourth Meeting 11/20 - We opened this meeting by comparing the ideas gain from the completion of individual responsibilities. On this day we completed joint responsibility 2, the concept statement and 4, the ideal actors. We decided to spend all day on 11/29 to complete number 8 of the individual responsibilities and number 1 of the joint responsibilities. Over Thanksgiving break we decided to look further into background research to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the play in order to complete the analysis.

Fifth Meeting 11/29 - On this day we completed individual responsibility number 8, marketing concept, and completed half of joint responsibility number 1, the analysis of the play. Since the analysis of the play was such a large task we decide to meet again on Sunday 11/30 to compete the second half of this analysis.

Sixth Meeting 11/30 - At this meeting we completed the second half of the analysis. At this meeting we also compiled the list of our meeting to complete joint responsibility number 5. We decided that between 11/30 and 12/2 we would individually complete individual responsibility number 9.