Review of March.

Forgot to keep weekly blogs of March's happenings.

So from memory and work that I have, I can gather a few things from this:

• For Arts class, we worked with clay to create letters for experience and to possibly use them for our Magazine project with Brian. Once we had created the basic letters, we were allowed to apply our own creative touch to them. After working with clay, we moved onto Monoprint. Monoprint is a new method to most of us, and needs focus, because it is very easy to lose control of it, and get it all messy. We will be using Monoprints in our Stirling Castle project.
• In the Tuesday class, we worked on our Magazine articles, and covers, and trying to get everything decided and done, and ready to print as soon as possible after the holidays. Before we finished up, everyone's articles had been finished, edited and everything is pretty much raring to go, with just a few tweaks here and there to finish it off.
• With John's class, we decided on what we will be doing for the next project, I have to research the Regimental Museum at Stirling Castle. We have been practicing making videos and getting used to the camera's. presenting and getting confident with all these aspects before we make our film on Stirling Castle. I worked with Reece and James M to create a funny video with questions about the course, while we're in the middle of making another video where I am working with James, Jennifer and Abii to create a fake news report for Rob's class. We had previously been working on creating a Non-Fiction tv show idea, describing what happens, who's in it, and creating our set via drawing or Google's Sketch-Up tool.

And that, is essentially March wrapped up!

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction

The One Show

This is non-fiction because hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakely are not trained actors, and interview real people on the show, with a live audience. None of this is scripted for actors; it is real life and talks about real life. A studio is set-up with aspects that relate to the topic of the show. There are couches for the presenters and guests.

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Ij0QGult0

MasterChef

MasterChef is non-fiction because it pits real people against each other in a cook-off style competition with real judges criticising their work etc. Normal people are involved and nothing is scripted to act. This is real life and is set it kitchens or restaurants as they would be set up as normal.

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-J2lakJCw

BBC News at Ten

The news is always non-fiction because it is a real life presenter fronting a show where they are reading out real life stories to real life people watching. A permanent studio is set up with a desk and chair, with other furniture and a large screen for visuals.

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ozKxFjd1E

February Overview

Before it's too late, I should update on my progress.

With Angela's monday class, we had been researching Andy Warhol and Pop Art, so then we took profile pictures, picked our favourite and traced over the picture on the projector, and painted ourselves in a Pop Art/Cartoon style, with creativity to do what we want with it, colours, extra detail and so on. I managed to complete my piece yeserday.

With Brian and Taylor's tuesday classes, I have been off on tuesday for the past 2 weeks, so I missed out on quite a bit, mainly researching images and draft text, being introduced to Scribus. However, I caught up on that today.

With thursday's classes, we had done a questionnaire about the difference between two Michael Jackson videos, then we visited BBC Studios Glasgow to appear in the audience for "In it to win it" with Dale Winton. It was a good day. The college had in-service days last thursday and friday so we weren't in.

EPK Website.

A bit late but I thought I had already posted this link, here is our finished EPK Website, completed by Reece, James M and I.


This site was completed in November, proof here: click (Bounce)
EPK Website