11/11/10

Period 1

We were finishing any uncompleted work, on computers or in scetch books,and she also showed us examples of what our blogs should look like and she gave us a list of work we have to complete. Me and Elliot finished designs for our show and decided on materials for our shoe as well.

Period 2

We completed certain bits of work, this was to research an existing campaign and research it. This helped us with our work as we could see what the professionals have done.

Period 3

The Lesson was split into 2 halves.

Half 1: First the T.V. ad groups recorded their ads and we did a quick review on them. Then the       performance groups practiced theirs (that's me!). We also practiced our workshop groups to get that running smoothly.

Half 2: We went into the computer room to prepare a questionnaire to the year 2's to see how they liked our workshop with them and wrote a couple paragraphs of Theatre In Education (T.I.E.).

Overview

Today we did quite a bit of completing unfinished work or preparing for the practical work yet to come. The only thing I'm disappointed with is that we didn't really practice our performance enough.

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Workshop in Browick Primary

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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.

cya in a bizzle

Video journal

We have been learning to be modern and creative. To help us show that we learnt how to do a video journal, whether it is just talking to a web cam or videoing what we've been doing and adding it to an interview of me saying what we've been dong to give it that expert touch.

I have actually made up a video of me making a robot costume to add to the blog but unfortunately I can't seem to upload it. It would also be handy to have lots of them because I find it hard to explain what happened in writing so this would allow me to show it more clearly. It would also be more intresting than reading everything if I can get soem real footage.