Film society discusses first steps
A club decides how they want to be first presented to the student body.
By Chloe Peter
Emily Lewis, Jordan Eddy, Tim Kromer, and Ariana Johnson stood around a table. Differently designed posters, business cards, and pins lined up and down the table. Debating over marketing techniques and what students wanted the club to be began. While other students than the four standing around the table were scattered around the TV studio, only six people had showed up for this meeting. They want at least 50 members by May. This was one of the first unofficial meetings of Bethel University’s Film Society, a club that is trying to get started on campus.
“We’re still trying to find out what our identity is.” — Ariana Johnson, founding member of Bethel Film Society
Voting on anything, but especially marketing techniques, took large chunks of time for the group to decide. Often the TV studio would go completely silent for minutes after a question had been presented. Multiple students would chime in with different opinions on how to get students interested in coming to Bethel Film Society.
“We’re still trying to find out what our identity is,” Ariana Johnson, one of the founding members of the Bethel Film Society, said.
Identity kept coming up as a question for the four around the table.
“What do people want out of this club?” Johnson asked.
The group of students sitting around the TV studio went silent again. The students looked from each other, to the ground and to various points around the studio.
“Everyone can create something they want to create,” Madison Ryan, another founding student of the film society, said.
Students nodded in approval. Emily Lewis mentioned how this club needed to be applicable for everyone and engaging, but were they supposed to start with movie options guaranteed to bring in students to the film society or those that presented what the film society thought were film culture although would bring in less students?
“We get the voice of what we want to watch,” Johnson said.
Again, students nodded in approval. But, this time, the silence stayed around for longer. Tim Kramer mentioned that it was crucial for the first few official meetings to grab students’ attention and get more people involved in the Bethel Film Society.
As time ran out for the meeting, no one had officially yet said or decided what the identity of Bethel Film Society of a club would be.
