“Don’t let your friendship die on the road”

We are analyzing the different ways in which different media’s portray the main aim of the title.

•The message of the poster – Trying to communicate the seriousness of the deaths on the road, and it can happen to anyone. I believe it is targeting young children and teenagers, around the age where people become more independent, (walk home on there own, with friends, not parents).

•The strategy – To illustrate how serious the death rate is on the road, to shock the audience, how real it actually is. To advise or brainwash the audience, have a memory, and can recall it. (it’s a statement, you can prevent it).

•Where you are likely to see it; Bus, Bus stop, Television advert, Radio, Trains, Tram, Posters at the side of buildings, (near the road), and lots more…

•Target Audience - targeting young children and teenagers, around the age where people become more independent, (walk home on there own, with friends, not parents).

•The Power of it – I think it is fairly effective, the mood of the poster is clear, its simple to understand and makes you think of why they have chosen that kind of layout, (is a picture of someone lying dead on the road at night, facial expression blank, lifeless, the image is rotated horizontally, making the figures in the images look like they are standing up). It is interesting, or at least intriguing. Why its not so effective in my opinion – Its not going to change the actions of people around the road, for instance someone who comes across a poster on road safety, there mind only dwindles on it for a second, then forget it. Its obviously not life changing, how can it be, but it needs to be in order for it to really stick in anyone's mind. Its extremely hard to know the perfect balance between what's acceptable, how horrific until it becomes a joke, its just going to get waved off, or what’s needed to get the point through to the target audience, knowing what they agree with!

Our Project

The Right Of The Child

In this project we are going to create our own animation using photographed images in the style of Terry Gilliam, to create a humorous but hard hitting animation on the rights of the child.

We are using specific influences from Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov popova, because they use propaganda and cut and pace aspects.

A Bit About Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam was born in Medicine Lake, Minnesota. His career started as an animator and strip cartoonist. Gilliam's most famous work was working with the monty python sketches, later gaining the right to be a member of the monty python shows, his cartoons linked the show's sketches together, giving the show a different feel to it.

production meeting

In our drama class we were allocated small groups of up to 5 people. We read our monologues to each other and all contributed opinions on the different monologues. We decided on Marley's monologue.

The Roles During The Monologue And Documentary;

Alex - Actor, (writing a small monologue to go along with Marley's monologue, acting an arrogant, know it all type of character).

Marley - Actor, (acting an insecure and pompous character).

Yasemin - Director (tell everyone what to do and making sure everyone is focusing and have knowledge of what is going on, to keep control of the situation).

Farah - Sound, Light and Photo Technician.

The Spence Bakery
Project

Our Task Project...

We were informed that a company called inspire asked us to make a short film, teaching year 4 literacy and numeracy at work.

We were allocated a specific film area, of either;

• The Graphic Designer
• The Travel Agent
• The Hotel Manager
• Or The Baker

Inspire offers opportunities for developing skills in literacy, numeracy, creative writing and social skills. The films will soon be seen by Primary schools, for year 4 students.
I was the camera operator, and interviewer.
I was taking close-ups, scanning shots (on the tripod),establishing shots and medium shots (of the person I was interviewing).

After, The Editing ...

Editing was a slow and Long process, Because we were using a new editing software called Final Cut pro, It took a long time to get used to it. We encountered yet another problem, We handed in the camera with the unmarked tape. Resulting in us loosing all our footage.
This problem was short lived, and the tape eventually got found, the problem now was that we had no sound!
With the addition of loosing our sound, This was an extremely slow process, the editing was defiantly not easy. We were using a new software that was unfamiliar to us, this was called Final Cut Pro. As time past we eventually got used to it, getting slightly quicker each time. With a big helping hand from Ms flavell and Howard our Spence Bakery Project was finally to an end.

Francis Bacon

Its just absolutely crazy to think Francis Bacon had so many sculptures and paintings that he just destroyed.

How I Created a clay sculpture

We created clay sculptures of our heads in class.

the materials we used were:

*wooden stand, this was a square piece of wood with a pole rising vertically through the centre (about 20cm high)
*Paper (newspaper)
*sticky brown paper (special type of tape that you need to wet to make it sticky)
*Clay (Red clay[Terracotta], which need to be fired in a kiln to harden.

Here's how we did it;

Step One, Creating the basic shape,

I wrapped the newspaper around the wooden pole, until it formed the basic shape of the head, I held this in place by using the brown sticky tape, which i had dipped in water to activate the adhesive (glue).

Step Two, Adding the Clay

To coat the paper with clay, we found out that big piece of clay would just fall off, so we were told to use small pieces, these clay pellets had to be pushed in and firmly smoothed over.Only when a complete sphere of clay had been formed, was the structure strong enough to begin the next phase of building up the profile of the features in the face.

Step Three, Moulding the features,

I now added larger pieces of clay to the parts I needed to build up the noise and chin, and also have enough depths to allow indentations of the eyes, I build up the noise and eyes , filling my own face as a guide to the shape i should use for the head. It was an extremely good technique because the head soon took shape, but everyone laughed because my head looked more like the sculpture because I was soon covered in clay.

Step four, Firing,

The final phase in producing a bare sculpture is to harden the clay. By placing the clay head in a oven at a very high temperature this will result in,
The clay hardening into pottery
The paper inside the head will burn away to leave a hollow sculpture (if the head had been solid clay (without paper in the centre) then the moisture in the centre of the head could not be driven out easily, so the head would stay damp and with a weak soft centre, this could mean it would become mouldy or droop out of shape over a curtain amount of time.

Step five, The finishing touches,

we could finish the head by;
mounting it onto a board, Painting, Varnishing or just leaving it raw. This will be the next phase of the project-look out for my next blog...

What went wrong for us??

Our project task....

Inspire asked our creative and media diploma class to make a short film teaching numeracy through interviewing bakers for young kids aged between 8 and 10years, my group got the chance to get out of the school and interview the bakers at the Spence bakery.
We took about 15mins to check the equipment If there was a spare battery the tape was running probably. Everything was running smoothly, brilliant, amazing, so from that we went to the bakery.
When we arrived, we introduced ourselves and went through what was going to happen - gave them a plan of all the question we were going to ask them, mainly so that they can be slightly prepared.
Then we got some good and some bad footage, finally got a establishing shot of the Spence bakery.

This was where we went wrong!.......

We handed in the camera WITH THE UNMARKED TAPE. Resulting in us loosing all our footage. So therefor we could not edit it.

But of course this is typical - The tape was Later found.....(It did not have a label)

We checked it out, And YET ANOTHER PROBLEM!!!... No SoUnD,nO sOuNd, No SoUnD,nO sOuNd,No SoUnD,nO sOuNd,No SoUnD,nO sOuNd,No SoUnD,nO sOuNd,No SoUnD,nO sOuNd,No SoUnD. WEll another wasted day, period of 50mins.ahhhhhah.....

This was another one of these unanswered problems. this was a simple hit the computer problems!

And you had to hit it a few times???

that's all, guess we'll just have to speed up and catch up....

and finish editing the trip to the bakery - Used throughout the borough Hackney.

That's Two very annoying, ANd EXTrEmELY simple mistakes anyone can make, and can set you back a few days.....

Honestly that's the last thing that will happen again. NEVER again.