Influences of the modern world

This post is about how our charity work has been influenced by other charities.

The Benetton Group

Their shock tactics showed me that a very affective way of capturing attention is by using something disgusting, eye-catching, different and bright colours. due to the fact that our target audience is going to be small children having something disgusting, scary or adult is definitely not the way forwards. However bright colours and new ideas will be very effective. We decided to use colourful drawings with an logo (the charity monster) that is very different from the other ones out there.

The Salvation Army

The Salvation army is christian so attracts Christians, if we showcase ourselves as being part of a certain group people that we will hopefully get them to follow us. However we will then be slightly excluding other people that aren't part of that group. They also try to make you feel sorry for the people they are trying to help. We could do this in our performance but not too sad as the children may find it to upsetting.

The Children's Society

They use evidence they have collected to inform MP's. I doubt that we could get in touch with a MP and even if we do they would really try to help. We could however try to talk to local shop owners and teachers at school to try and help us showcase our message.

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Health and saftey tips no. 4

I've been using wire to make the blue toe of my shoe and the hole punch to make holes for the laces. Things I need to consider are:

• Be careful where the end of the wire is so it doesn't go in someones eye
• Don't punch my hand of drop the puncher on my foot
• When cutting the wire and bending it be careful with the scissors and the pliers.

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11/1/11

I'd just like to start by saying check out the date-11/1/11. Little things like dates with the same number throughout make me happy.

Period 1

We were in the computer room, but this time one filled with Macs. We looked at an example of someones work. We took notes on anything that we needed to include that we hadn't already. We also started to write a quick brief of what our campaign work includes.

Period 2

We contineud to work on our shoe and I managed to make it so that my shoe is now resembling a shoe. All that is let to do is to add the blue toe, tongue and back which I'm confident I'll be able to do next lesson

Period 3

We were back in the Mac room but this time we began to edit our Browick road footage. Me, Freya and Chloe went to record a video of us talking about our campaign, I talked about why it didn't go as well as it could have.

Overview

In Artefact I made a lot of progress as I have finally settled with one idea. Our Browick road footage should be nearly finished and ready to be uploaded to our blogs along with the Video journal of use talking about the campaign. Unfortunately that was slowed down by not being able to get the cameras to import, if they did straight away we would probably have got it up already.

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Health and saftey tips no. 3

To make the mouth of my shoe I need to use air-drying clay and I used scissors to cut up the acetate along with a stapler to hold it together. To make sure I don't accidental hurt me or someone else I have to:

• Not drop the clay bag as it is heavy
• Be careful while using the scissors
• Be careful while using the stapler

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14/12/10

Period 1

We were in the computer room and we added new labels to our blogs so that it is easier for the marker to see which piece of work comes under which learning objectives. I also tried to upload the video of us making the big charity monster but unfortunately had to make it from scratch again and didn't have time to complete this within the lesson.

Period 2

We were working on our shoe again and I have made the mouth and began painting it. I have also made the sole along with the support for the heel, unfortunately I forgot the templates I was going to use so I couldn't get them completed but made the mouth instead. The mouth is made from air-drying clay. We also got sweets because it was our last lesson before Christmas!

Period 3

We were back in the computer room and we completed any work that we hadn't completed which involved letters to the charity shops and I also did a bit more work on the stop-motion movie I was doing in period 1. Miss also said my blog was really good!

Overview

We did a lot of finishing work today which was good because we didn't have to do it at home. I have almost managed to get back on schedule in artifact. Just a little bit behind and that's because I had to spend a lot of time trying to find a working stapler.

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This is a video of a real robot

This is the video of our performance at Browick, I'm the robot. It shows how the performance came together and how we managed to cope even though we didn't have the full group that we'd been hoping for.

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Health and safety tips no. 2

I wanted a bumpy texture on my shoe but doing this was going to present some health and safety hazards.To get the texture of the shoe right I had to heat the acetate. To do this Miss gave me a lighter and an iron. Obviously there are some points I need to consider, these are:

• Be careful not to burn myself when using the lighter
• Be careful not to let anything else in the room catch on fire
• Don't hold the acetate when it's hot
• Don't touch the hot side of the iron
• Tell other people not to touch the iron when it's hot
• Be careful with the iron whilst it's cooling down as it may still be hot

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7/12/10

Period 1

First miss told us when all our artifact work had to be hand in by and made sure that we all new what had to be done. Then we all began completing this work. I changed my design again to include acetate instead of wax, acetate is the plastic stuff that goes on overhead projectors. I used small samples to test it, if I heated it it would become bumpy and stay like this. First I tried heating it with a flame but then it curled up as well and I wanted it to keep it's shape. I the used an iron and it still went bumpy but didn't go bumpy so I decided I'd use that technique to make my shoe. Miss then told me that it's very rigid when ironed so I'm going to have make the shape out of acetate first and then use a heat gun to make it bumpy, the iron wouldn't be able to iron the shape of the shoe. I also am going to take apart my old converses and use the bits of them for the template which I'll base my shoe on.

Period 2

We wrote a letter to our charities to tell them how our campaign went and whether or not we received any donations. We then began making a stop motion movie about "the birth of the Charity Monster." This is going well and it includes the big Charity monster being made and use thinking up the idea of the charity monster.

Period 3

We had a cover teacher who strangely didn't turn up. So we just did whatever work we hadn't yet completed or perfected any other work. I made sure the designs for my new shoe were going to work and there wasn't going to be any unexpected surprises when it came to making.

Overview

Today involved lots of quick thinking to solve problems and knowledge of how to work an iron. I think that I could've worked a little bit harder in the lesson where we had no teacher, the rest of the day I worked hard and completed a lot of things.

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the letter of failure

This is the letter we had to send to the charity shop telling them about how well the campaign went;

           

Wymondham High School

Folly Road

Wymondham

Norfolk

NR18 0QT

Children’s Society

30 Market Street

Wymondham

Norfolk

NR18 0BB

Dear sir/miss,

                       I am writing on behalf of the creative and media group that visited you on the 5^th of October. You asked us to collect more toys and to do this we launched a campaign and hoped to receive donations. Unfortunately, due to the dates of our campaign and restricted time, we have failed to get any donations to help your charity. We have though raised awareness so hopefully you will receive more donations from, now on.

Kind regards,

Jacob Lucas

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Dude! I've turned into a robot!

 For the performance we had to do at Browick just done I had to be a robot and this involved making myself a robot costume. I have written up instructions on how it happened just so you can see how much time it took.

Materials

• cardboard boxes (ones that just go past your waist)
• silver heating duct (length of both your arms)
• duck tape
• silver spray (enough to cover your cardboard boxes)
• any add-ons you may like (I used silver tins and silver curry boxes)
• Scissors
• Helper
• Silver jump suit

Instructions

1. using the duck tape go over all the edges of your cardboard boxes (you may have to tape two or more together). This will be the body of your robot.

2. cut out holes for your arms. (give room to move around and so they don't rub)

3. using the heating duct cut it down to equal lengths and then squish or stretch to make it fit your arms. Cover the ends of these in duct tape so they don't cut you,

4. Spray your box silver and once dried, using duct tape, stick on any add-ons you like.

5. Stick on any other add-ons you like to the jump suit, only below the waist though. Use  plenty of duct tape to do this as they may fall off. This will be the legs.

6. Use your helper to help get the suit on and strike a pose. Helper should also congratulate you on your achievement

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Another bad fail

Whats happening in the land of fail

We were expecting to get some donations from the children but unfortunately we only got one, and that was a freebie from a MacDonald's meal. I think this is because that we were only there for one day and the letter we sent to the school was 2 weeks ago so some children might have forgotten and there has also been a lot of toy sales for children in need and school fete's just before our collection dates. These took most of our donations and parents may be short of money because of Christmas coming up. I think that if we had our collection earlier or had a box where they could leave toys at the primary school for a week instead of them having only one day to bring it on.

What I've learnt from this fail

• Try to choose collection dates that have had no other big collection dates before it
• Keep them aware of it, make sure you keep telling them so they can't forget it
• Allow them to bring in donations in their own time, not only on one day for an hour
• Instead of asking them to bring toys in go to them

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My workshop

We had to do a workshop with the year 3's of Browick Primary School. Because of the snow our group went from 7 to 4. Despite this we managed to adapt and keep the year 3's interested. We involved lots of charity related games which they seemed to enjoy and there was very few moments where they were of task or not enjoying it. We did have to improvise a lot though as they completed things a lot quicker than expected so towards the end it was more difficult but we managed and all played a big and decent role in the workshop.

From our questionnaire we learnt that, after our workshop, most of the children new what the difference between a charity shop and a normal shop. As this wasn't all of them we explained what it was and then they all understood. They all also wanted to donate to charity (I think that a few of them put there hands up as every ones else did but most seemed as if they actually did).  

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1/12/10

Period 1

We went to Browick Primary to show our performances and do the workshops. These have been explained in more detail in earlier posts, I do however think that they both went as well as they could have gone. The performance went smoothly and the year 3's seemed to enjoy the workshops.

Period 2

We have continued with the making of my shoe and I have almost finished the template of my shoe, unfortunately way behind schedule. I think this is because that I changed my plans at the last minute and didn't think about the fact that I was going to need a template or that it was going to be so difficult to make one that works. To try and get myself back on schedule I'm going to work a lot harder and think if there will be an easier way to do what I'm abouts to do but with the same results.

Period 3

Mrs Brogan (who normally takes us for these lessons) wasn't here today so we had a supply teacher and the work that we were set was to write up about the trip to Browick and how our campaign has been going so far. That was a fairly easy lesson as all we were doing is typing up what happened but still it took a while so I'm glad we did it in that lesson not for homework.

Overview

The day was a complete mixture of what we've been doing so far on the diploma, performing, making and writing our thoughts on how the making and performing went. It was a successful day because that nothing went wrong and I got a lot of stuff done. But will have to work extra hard on my shoe next lesson.

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My wondeful T.I.E.



Browick Infant School



We went to Browick primary to put on our T.I.E. performance, unfortunately because of the snow our group went from 5 to 3 with some of our main characters missing. We adapted our performance to work by saying other peoples lines. I think that it went surprisingly well seeing that we didn't have our main characters.

On the way there we quickly sorted out who will say which of the others lines and if we were going to take any parts out. In the end we didn't take any parts out. I think that the performance worked as we could easily say the other peoples lines and had a few friends as extras who didn't say anything to make it look like it would've done if everyone was here. It took a little bit of work to get the children to call out like they would in a normal panto but once they did they were incredibly enthusiastic. I don't think think it could've gone better as it was smooth with no mistakes and the children looked as if they enjoyed it.

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Health and safety tips no. 1

There are some important health and safety things I need to consider to make sure I'm safe and I'm not abouts to take any ones eyes out around me, there are some things which are general knowledge like don't put mouth of the stuff in my mouth so I'm only going to cover the things that I could quite easily do rather than do by just being stupid. I'm going to post these as I do them in class. The points I need to consider so far are:

• When I'm using the shoe last be careful not to trap my fingers in the hinge
• When I'm using the craft knife use a mat and be careful so I don't slash myself

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22/11/10

Period 1

We got our sketch books back and they were marked, miss stuck post sticks for us to follow so we hopefully do better in later work or ways to improve already done work. We also began the making of the shoe. We changed the design of our shoe so it could be made of slightly see through wax but this will be explained in more detail in later posts. We looked at some other non-wearable shoes and they gave me some ideas. One of them was almost persevered in a wax shoe box and this gave me the idea to have a wax shoe.

Period 2

We reviewed our campaigns and improved them. My group went and asked for our charity monster drawing to be blown up. This way we could put a big one stuck to cardboard and place it near our collection centre so that people know that they're defiantly donating to us. We also prepared a flyer to be read out in forms and an adult poster to be put up in the staff room. This poster is different to other ones as it appeals more to adults, hopefully.

Period 3

We rehearsed our performances again and showed them to the class. I think ours went well as we now all know our parts and we didn't get food thrown at us when we showed it to the class. The group leaders for the workshops with the year 2's then practiced their lessons so that they got that running smoothly. Because me and Freya aren't group leaders we used this time to make our giant Charity monster.

Overview

I feel that I got a lot done to day and with the start of the shoe and last minute changing of ideas also feel that things are really beginning to start moving. Our campaign advertising has all been completed and we are now waiting to see how many donations we get, the artifact shoe is proving more complicated than first thought so a more detailed plan is going to be need ed to make things easier, along with more health and a safety aspects.

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18/11/10

Period 1

We went to the Van Dal shoe factory and learnt about the shoe making process, hopefully getting some ideas for how we could make our shoe or how to plan it. I didn't find it that interesting as it's not really something I enjoy doing but I did get a good idea for how to plan my shoe.

Period 2

We gave in our sketch books so they could be marked and we can improve on what we've done. We stuck in our freebies form the Van Dal shoe factory first though. Then we blogged our Van Dal shoe trip.

Period 3

This was an opportunity to make sure everything that we needed to have done by then was done and to perfect our Van Dal shoe factory posts.

Overview

The trip out helped me get an idea of how to plan my shoe even if I didn't enjoy it that much. I think that the extra time to get tour blogs perfect an up to date was handy to because that meant I didn't have to do it at home

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Questioning small people

1)      Did you enjoy today?

2)      Did you understand about sharing and donating?

3)      Do you think that you’ll donate more to charity?

4)      Do you understand what happens when you give to charity?

5)      Do you know where your local charity shops are?

6)      Do you know what a charity is?

The way that they will answer it is by putting their hand up when they are completely happy (smiley face), sort of happy (straight face) and don't understand at all( sad face).

The girls will answer in this table (in the white boxes we will tick what they say)

 And the boys here

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Fail

We didn't actually get any donations at all for our charity so to try and get some we've set up another collection date. We think that not enough people new about it and those that did didn't want to bring any in. Now we've got new and more posters with flyer's to be read out in form and the charity monster just stuck around the school just so people know about the monster. We've also got a poster to be put up in staff room so that the teachers know about it, they're more likely to bring in toys as they don't have to worry about "looking cool"

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Shocks of The Benetton Group

 



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 They are a clothes company who are well known for there controversial campaigns. They do this to get publicity to there shops but most of all to get people to notice that certain things are wrong. Maybe to give to charity or just not to do certain things.  They have a massive range of campaigns, going from feed the hungry to you don't have to follow the trends.



People find these controversial because they find some of the images disgusting, they touch on matters that people find sensitive, offend people or are to rude to be shown in public. This doesn't offend some people as they aren't affected by what they're saying but some people may have lost friends to the problems the pictures show or don't believe what is on the pictures is OK for young children to see. Examples of this are the new born baby picture (picture taken within seconds of baby being born), vicar kissing a nun,  the HIV positive pictures and the anti-racism pictures.

The baby in the baby picture is covered in blood and people may find this disgusting, People say that their new born baby is the most beautiful thing they've ever seen so why is someone else's disgusting?  





People find a vicar kissing a nun offensive because vicars and nuns aren't supposed to have any sexual life as they've devoted their life to god. Isn't that like saying someone isn't allowed to love someone because of their race?

The HIV positive pictures are often on a nude persons body. People may find these of a sexual nature so therefor unfit to be shown in public and you may have lost a family member to HIV and don't like the disease to be shown like it is. There are many perfume adverts of a sexual nature so why aren't they controversial?



Link to the benetton website:http://press.benettongroup.com/ben_en/

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