Barnardo’s children’s charity. 5.1 #3

Barnardo's is a children’s charity that runs 415 projects across the UK and works directly with over 100,000 families providing services for children in poverty, young carers or children who have been sexually exploited.

It started was by Thomas Barnardo, he came up with the idea when he came to London and saw 4 young children sleeping rough on the street. In 1867 he started up a Ragged school that started to help young, venerable, and neglected children of East London. His work still continues today. He died in 1905 by which time he had started a charity that now had 96 homes and cared for 8500 children. Today this figure is well over 100,000 children and families a year.

They launched what some would describe as disturbing posters. This one is one of many that show babies and toddlers with alcohol, or injecting drugs. These are to demonstrate what their adult life will be like if people don’t give money to the charity to help millions of children around the UK. These photos are powerful and emotive. It’s also powerful because you don’t see children in these situations other charity’s like NSPCC don’t use images that are this powerful and that demonstrate the point in this way.

This again is an extremely powerful image. It shows the effect that child abuse could have in a very negative way it. It also uses children to really imply what is going on here.

This is the most disturbing as if you see baby photos they are normally cute and cuddly in this one you see the harsh truth that is the amount of children born in to poverty.

In conclusion many of these posters are shocking but at the end of the day they are to make a point and persuade people to donate to charity and after looking at these photos I certainly would. 

Questionnaire for Browick Road LO2

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 completly 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 write in the numbers.)

 And this is the boys answers

Video Journal

On the 9^th of November 2010 we attended a VIDEO JOURNAL session

with Jackie Heffer-Cooke. She has worked on TV shows such as Graham Norton, Loose women, on the News and on the Sports, also on future radio, and has also worked for Anglia TV. She now has her own company called surfing cow productions.

She works as a producer which means that her roles are:

• Good idea: or develop other people ideas.
• The ability to make them happen.
• A clear angle on what they want to happen at what times.
• Good narrative (clear for the audience)
• A very clear format.
• A good script.
• Paper work completed (including health and safety.)
• Sees issues before they have a chance to affect other people off and on set.
• A good understanding of media law, compliance, ethic balance and a general sound editorial judgement.
• And is responsible for sticking to the budget.

She has also worked as a director where you have to be in charge off:

• Lighting
• Camera angles
• And actors

We learnt about video journals so that we could use them on are blogs to display what we have learnt in new interesting ways with out just writing or using photos.

What you need to make a video journal is:

• A camera.
• An idea
• Somewhere good to film.
• Creativity
• A clear format.
• Good planning.

She said that video journals have to be:

• Creative and interesting.
• Formatted correctly.
• Needs a beginning (introduction) middle and end (conclusion).
• It needs good structure.
• It also needs to be useful.

Key points:

• An idea is called a peg (keeps every thing together, can hang an idea on it)
• Logger have to write down every said if there isn’t a scripted.
• You would normally have a script.

We also watched the peep show because it’s filmed in a strange way:

It uses thought tracking.

From an eye view. (This means that it needs to be film twice from tow different angles in order for it to work. It takes a lot longer. )

We learnt how on shows for the X-factor they use VT’s to fill gaps while the next acts prepare, set up on stage.

This is a 10 step guide on how to format a VT:

1. Promo buffer.
2. 2. Last weeks show clips.
3. Promo buffer.
4. 4. An interview with producer/host about last week. C/a last weeks clips with voices layered over the top.
5. Biographical incite with photos etc.
6. Promo buffer.
7. Interview with produce/ who ever about this week.
8. Actuality of this week’s behind the scenes.
9. Interviews with judges about what their looking for this week, actuality and rehearsals throughout.
10. Promo buffer.

We also learnt about off screen on screen interviews:

Off scene – you just see them answer the question and including the question in the answer.

On screen- you often see and/or hear the interviewer.

This has been very useful to me and I hope to use some off this to show how I made my felt balls, and also to show what problems I over came by using a video dairy etc.

Campaign lesson review 09-11-2010 5.4

We printed out the posters that we needed to up around the school to advertise for are collecting donations. We put them up in the 3 different blocks.

Additionally we finalised Browick road plans to make sure that every one was fine with it.

We also updated are blogs. We rehearsed for are TV adverts that we filmed after lunch. Ares is based on the A team but we called it the CAM team.

I think that are TV add was good because:

It was funny (a spoof of the A team).

It will be remembered for being funny.

I think that we could have improved out TV add by:

Preparing a little bit more and getting the guys dressed all the same with toy gun etc. but no body had that kind of thing and we can edit it in later.

Browick Road. Laura's Group 5.3/5.2

Trip to Open

Trip to Open Youth Venue on 12^th October 2010.

The Creative industries student convention was chance for us to get out into the local area and find out what jobs we could get in the creative industries. It was a very interesting day, however at points it was a little boring as it was designed for people older than our age group; so I found it a little bit hard to take in.

The day was spilt into 6 talks, roughly an hour each. We then had a break/interval where we could ask people questions on a one to one basis- this was really good as it meant that we could ask without being embarrassed. We had talks on:

Music (Adrian Cooke)

Dance (Derek Purnell)

Performance (Tony Scannell)

Graphic design (Bobby Barrage, Alex Jefferies)

Animation.  (Steve Bjork, Tim Edwards)

It was a good experience and I learnt many things:

·        To get into a dance school you have to do singing and acting so that you are a well rounded performer.

·        There are many different jobs that are needed at a dance school. (such as costume designer, lights specialist)

·        Acting is good but you need to get into a drama school if you really want to do it.

·        Graphic design is used in campaigns all the time.

·        Many times it helps to be original.

·        Used for a wide range of things (e.g. posters, TV, book, logos, CD covers, and arts.)

·        In graphic design and animation you really have to listen to the target audience.

·        In music many undiscovered bands make money by TV shows using a song by them this means that people who are watching the TV show will likely remember that song so the band will sell more ( for example I watch Gossip Girl and on the show they tend to use less well known pop songs. They have a CD on iTunes that is called OMFFG featuring music from the series. In episode 7 season 1 at the end they used a song called “With Me” by Sum 41 which many people – including me- have brought because it was in the show.)

The two talks that I found most interesting where: Dance and drama. Dance because I have done it since I was little and love it so much. Drama because it was quite a funny one and I was also very interested and learnt good technique (such as what to do in auditions).

At one point I did ask a question to the dancers:

“Do you think that recently films like; step up 3d, Street dance, Fame, and many others have influenced the industry?”

The answer that I got back were mixed many thought that people thought that it only portrayed one type of dance ‘street’ when many of the dancer who where in it have also learnt classical. But most thought that it was positive and has made more boys want to join the industry.

All in all it was a good day and although at times it was a little bit boring it has helped me think about a wider range of jobs that could be available to me with the help of my diploma.

After this trip I went to St Andrews hall to do the Choir festival. It’s a mix of schools in local area that have choirs, each school gets sent the music they need to learn for the festival so the choir members learn it at school. We then have a day of rehearsals and then the performance in the evening. Because of my trip with CAM I had 15 minutes rehearsal time.

We then went in to Norwich because the time that rehearsals finish and every ones ready to go all the buses at school have left and there isn’t enough time so last year Mr Horner said that we should stay in the city. We went to Pizza hut for tea after me and a few friends went into Build a bear workshop and brought a choir mascot (a cat that we named kitty!) It was a really good night but there was a lot of waiting around and by the end of the night I was really tired and my voice was really sore.