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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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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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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Theatre In Education (T.I.E)

As you probably know I'm going to Browick Primary to perform a play. This is theatre in education and we have already experienced this when the Tiny Giant Theatre Company performed a play on seat belt safety to us called Perfect. This play was aimed at 14-16 year olds and attempted to get us to where seat belts by telling a true story about a young girl who was involved in a car crash. They used comedy, hard-hitting tactics and multi-rolling in their play.

We could try and incorporate comedy in ours so the children don't feel like their being bombarded by pure information and enjoy it more. If we use multi-rolling it would have to be clear that we're different people, costumes would help this, but I don't think it is needed for ours and the hard-hitting tactics may not be appropriate to the age group of primary school children as we don't want them crying. Their play did help though as it gave us a professional play to work from when we where planning ours.

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Campaign successfulness

Our campaign is gojng quite successfully, it's going to be hard to judge how well we got our message across until we've got our toys collected but everything is going well at the moment, our play is well rehearsed, posters are eye-catching and leaflets are completed. Everything else needed  has been completed to date.

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The Charity Monsters






The logo we designed

 

Our campaign is trying get parents and children to give there old toys to charity. To get them to give things away we're making them feel sorry for people without toys. We're also telling them that its Christmas so they need to clear out there old toys from there house. When we go to Browick Primary we'll do a performance about giving to charity so hopefully the children will then go home and pressure there parents into giving to charity. I'm also taking part in a workshop with the primary school to get the younger children used to sharing and giving. Posters will be put up around school and leaflets will also be given out to raise awareness.Our collection centre will be in the drama hall at Lunch on the 14th of December.

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How I could be the video blogger man

I'm going to plan the format for a video journal on the campaign work we've been doing.

We're going to Browick primary school and performing so I thought we could do some kind of really quick documentary on it. It could include the getting ready for the performance and then an interview with me and the people in my performance group. We could have us saying the bits we liked and then it would go to footage of us actually performing that bit. We could also do the same for bits that we didn't like. Finally have us working with the year 2's but making sure it's a bit where we're all laughing and a voice over saying whats a happening and how we all enjoyed the day.

The only bad point I can think that might happen is it may look really cheesy and I may find difficulty getting saying what I think it should look like.

Good points are that it should be easy to put together and doesn't have to be the camera on one person for to long so you won't feel to embarrassed.

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Posters, Leaflets and adverts

On the 19th of October we had to make a poster, leaflet and advert for the radio and T.V. ( T.V. ad is now being preformed at Browick primary school) Our posters and leaflets have been completed and I'm currently getting the materials for a robot costume for the performance. The radio ad has been drafted as well.



One of our posters


   I think we worked well as a group playing on each others strengths but we could have worked a little quicker and not changed our T.V. ad to a performance half way through. I also think we succeeded at all things as we are all happy with what we've done so far and can't find any big areas to improve on.

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Campaign learning objectives

1. Understand the nature and purpose of campaigns
2. Be able to prepare a campiagn
3. Be able to conduct a campaign
4. Be able to monitor the preparation and conduct of a campaign