Thursday, 30 September 2010
Keynotes
Today I carried on with my keynotes presentation adding the sound clips which I had chosen and edited last week.
Letter to Scrapstore
Today we wrote a combined email to the Scrapstore explaining our current ideas before we actually commence with creating the advert. This is the email.
To John
This is the Creative and Media group updating you on our progress with the project.
We've all now finished the planning stages and are ready to move on.
Jack
My part of the project is to create a film to bridge the other group member's films. I am sticking with my idea of a Rube Goldberg machine, but I am taking your advice and creating and filming it here at college instead of the school. This is due to the complexity of the task and I also thought it could show how college students like us can use the Scrap, not just children. I have drawn up several sketches for ideas and experimented with the limited materials I have to hand at college, but a final idea will come once I collect some more from the Scrapstore. I will design the machine to slow down or stop at various stages where it can introduce the other films.
Oliver
I have finished my planning stage and I am now ready to commence with the next level of my project. After our last discussion when we all decided against working on one big project I decided to go ahead with a single activity with a group of schoolchildren. My first idea was to work with one big sculpture that all the children would contribute towards, maybe with their own scrap along with Scrapstore's scrap. After going through the initial planning stages I thought that maybe working on a large scale 3D sculpture would be too time consuming and the children would lose intrest quickly. I decided to scale it down by getting the children to make loads of small sculptures but again though it would be too time consuming and the children would quickly get bored. I decided to go into two dimensions and appeal to the kids more on their level. I decided to make outlines of things that would interest them, thus holding their attention keeping them occupied. After drawing up test outlines, I thought that the different shapes would possibly confuse them and decided to stick to one simple, recognisable shape that most ten year-olds would know. So I have created pseudo-Lego figures that will be drawn onto cardboard or similar that the children can place scrap around, create clothes for them and generally mess around with. I will then combine all these small (around A5) drawings to create one big picture using a colour coding system (picture still to be decided upon).
Kate
I have decided to do an individual project filming children playing with scrap and use it to create a promotional film appealing to companies to persuade them to donate scrap. I have found two children to help me with this and I am going to set up scenes in which they are exploring different environments such as the jungle and outer space. I will them use an animated background to show their imagination and show how playing with scrap has helped them use their imagination. I am interested in seeing children playing with a playpod at a school and think it could be good inspiration for ideas, but I think it would be more effective and easier to film children I know and can instruct so the film follows a plan. The film will be narrated by one of the children in the form of a poem.
Lauren
my proposal is to use steiner school methods to teach the children through play, so they don't think of it as a lesson but still learn from it. I have come up with a rough lesson plan for the children which is to build bridges out of the scrap and add weights to them so its kind of like a science lesson. I will show them how they can be joined differently what different shape bridges are stronger and how the amount of weight held is dependent on the strength of the bridge. i am going to film the whole thing and take photographs and make a short film to document my time at the school and to show how children can really make use of the scrap and to hopefully encourage companies to donate more scrap!
To John
This is the Creative and Media group updating you on our progress with the project.
We've all now finished the planning stages and are ready to move on.
Jack
My part of the project is to create a film to bridge the other group member's films. I am sticking with my idea of a Rube Goldberg machine, but I am taking your advice and creating and filming it here at college instead of the school. This is due to the complexity of the task and I also thought it could show how college students like us can use the Scrap, not just children. I have drawn up several sketches for ideas and experimented with the limited materials I have to hand at college, but a final idea will come once I collect some more from the Scrapstore. I will design the machine to slow down or stop at various stages where it can introduce the other films.
Oliver
I have finished my planning stage and I am now ready to commence with the next level of my project. After our last discussion when we all decided against working on one big project I decided to go ahead with a single activity with a group of schoolchildren. My first idea was to work with one big sculpture that all the children would contribute towards, maybe with their own scrap along with Scrapstore's scrap. After going through the initial planning stages I thought that maybe working on a large scale 3D sculpture would be too time consuming and the children would lose intrest quickly. I decided to scale it down by getting the children to make loads of small sculptures but again though it would be too time consuming and the children would quickly get bored. I decided to go into two dimensions and appeal to the kids more on their level. I decided to make outlines of things that would interest them, thus holding their attention keeping them occupied. After drawing up test outlines, I thought that the different shapes would possibly confuse them and decided to stick to one simple, recognisable shape that most ten year-olds would know. So I have created pseudo-Lego figures that will be drawn onto cardboard or similar that the children can place scrap around, create clothes for them and generally mess around with. I will then combine all these small (around A5) drawings to create one big picture using a colour coding system (picture still to be decided upon).
Kate
I have decided to do an individual project filming children playing with scrap and use it to create a promotional film appealing to companies to persuade them to donate scrap. I have found two children to help me with this and I am going to set up scenes in which they are exploring different environments such as the jungle and outer space. I will them use an animated background to show their imagination and show how playing with scrap has helped them use their imagination. I am interested in seeing children playing with a playpod at a school and think it could be good inspiration for ideas, but I think it would be more effective and easier to film children I know and can instruct so the film follows a plan. The film will be narrated by one of the children in the form of a poem.
Lauren
my proposal is to use steiner school methods to teach the children through play, so they don't think of it as a lesson but still learn from it. I have come up with a rough lesson plan for the children which is to build bridges out of the scrap and add weights to them so its kind of like a science lesson. I will show them how they can be joined differently what different shape bridges are stronger and how the amount of weight held is dependent on the strength of the bridge. i am going to film the whole thing and take photographs and make a short film to document my time at the school and to show how children can really make use of the scrap and to hopefully encourage companies to donate more scrap!
Friday, 24 September 2010
Tim Burton Poetry
I chose to look at Tim Burton's poetry because I think it is very imaginative and childish. I found an animation he did and looked at using the poem's rhythm to create my own.I really like the way Burton manages to show two different worlds the child lives in. This is what I want to achieve, I am creating backgrounds to show the childrens' imaginations then a smaller screen showing the children playing in the real world.
Vincent Price.
“Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He’s always polite and does what he’s told.
For a boy his age he’s considerate and nice,
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.”
“He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats,
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats.
There he could reflect on the horrors he’d created
And wander dark hallways where no man tormented”
Vincent was nice when his aunt came to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.
He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Can go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts weren’t all of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass the time
While other kids read books like go jay go
Vincents favourite author is edgar alan poe
One night while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive
He dug out a grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was, his mothers flowerbed.
I really tried to use aspects of his writing and style to create my own which would be easy to be read by a child and keep the viewer intrigued. This is my first attempt.
Amelia Harold is five years old,
She’s quiet and shy and not very bold,
Her favourite toy is her cuddly Raggy
The head of a dog, just a rag for a body.
She always had to play with her older brother Harry,
He likes worms, bugs and mud and always gets dirty.
Away from watching eyes he hid spiders out of sight,
For Amelia to find and get quite a fright.
Amelia and Harry had something in common
They liked having things to play with, under and on!
Scrapstore could give them whatever they wanted
like send them to jungles and territories uncharted
They explored outer space and lived like the martians
Or played grown ups making executive decisions.
Amelia could make whatever she wanted
But had a hard time stopping harry destroy it.
Harry was good when his mother was watching
But when her back turned he’d pretend he was flying.
Amelia’s fairy wings took her to the stars
Harry’s cape was made from curtains.
He was King of the castle and all of the land!
And made servants suffer under his hand??
He wanted to be rich and rule all the word
So he stole the map and found the treasure hold
I tried to write about things which could be easily shown in a film which would show off children playing and the benefits of this.
Vincent Price.
“Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He’s always polite and does what he’s told.
For a boy his age he’s considerate and nice,
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.”
“He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats,
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats.
There he could reflect on the horrors he’d created
And wander dark hallways where no man tormented”
Vincent was nice when his aunt came to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.
He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Can go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts weren’t all of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass the time
While other kids read books like go jay go
Vincents favourite author is edgar alan poe
One night while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive
He dug out a grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was, his mothers flowerbed.
I really tried to use aspects of his writing and style to create my own which would be easy to be read by a child and keep the viewer intrigued. This is my first attempt.
Amelia Harold is five years old,
She’s quiet and shy and not very bold,
Her favourite toy is her cuddly Raggy
The head of a dog, just a rag for a body.
She always had to play with her older brother Harry,
He likes worms, bugs and mud and always gets dirty.
Away from watching eyes he hid spiders out of sight,
For Amelia to find and get quite a fright.
Amelia and Harry had something in common
They liked having things to play with, under and on!
Scrapstore could give them whatever they wanted
like send them to jungles and territories uncharted
They explored outer space and lived like the martians
Or played grown ups making executive decisions.
Amelia could make whatever she wanted
But had a hard time stopping harry destroy it.
Harry was good when his mother was watching
But when her back turned he’d pretend he was flying.
Amelia’s fairy wings took her to the stars
Harry’s cape was made from curtains.
He was King of the castle and all of the land!
And made servants suffer under his hand??
He wanted to be rich and rule all the word
So he stole the map and found the treasure hold
I tried to write about things which could be easily shown in a film which would show off children playing and the benefits of this.
development of storyboard
From looking at many films and adverts which I like, I decided to use a poem to narrate my film much like the film Vincent Price by Tim Burton. I think it will show a more childish side to the video and make it more interesting. I started thinking of poems which children know already such as nursery rhymes but found I could not change them enough to make them relevant to my advert. I then decided to try and write my own poem following the same beat and rhythm of Tim Burton's.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Friday, 17 September 2010
Planning
To organise myself I Made various plans and records to help me with research, time management etc.
Planning
To organise myself I Made various plans and records to help me with research, time management etc. I created a monthly and a weekly time plan to ensure I was organised and didn't forget anything. The weekly plan was more detailed including personal research, trips, filming time etc and the monthly plan included wider items such as deadlines and meetings.
I recorded what and where I found research.
I recorded what and where I found research.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Letter to scrapstore
To get in touch with Mr. Pedlington I took charge of communications. I emailed him asking to arrange a meeting to propose our ideas. This is what I wrote.
Dear Mr Pedlington,
We are a group of students from City of Bath College who previously met with you regarding our project, “Interaction” on Friday 30th April.
We are ready to meet with you again to discuss each of our ideas in further detail. We would like to request a meeting on a Tuesday or Wednesday sometime between the 9th and 25th of June, if that is convenient for you.
You can contact us through the following email address:
Kate1701@hotmail.com
Thank you, in anticipation
Yours Sincerely,
Jack Crossley Oliver Thurston Katherine Howes Lauren Wilcock
Dear Mr Pedlington,
We are a group of students from City of Bath College who previously met with you regarding our project, “Interaction” on Friday 30th April.
We are ready to meet with you again to discuss each of our ideas in further detail. We would like to request a meeting on a Tuesday or Wednesday sometime between the 9th and 25th of June, if that is convenient for you.
You can contact us through the following email address:
Kate1701@hotmail.com
Thank you, in anticipation
Yours Sincerely,
Jack Crossley Oliver Thurston Katherine Howes Lauren Wilcock
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
scrapstore
I have an idea of what I want my project to be. A short animation and filmed advert showing two children playing with scrap. I want them to use the scrap to take them to different environments and use an animated background to show their imagination. I have drawn up a storyboard of the kind of story i want it to follow.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
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