Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Script.

The Regimental Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders details their eventful history from 1794 to the present.

Its wonderful artefacts, ranging from:

  • the magnificent regimental silverware to
  • flasks bearing bullet-holes,
  • from medals for heroism
  • to poignant letters home,

bear eloquent testimony to the Argylls' glorious history, and show why the regiment evokes such pride in the town.

Their connection with Stirling is as alive today as it has ever been.

Since 1881, Stirling Castle has been the "home" of the legendary Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, a regiment with an illustrious history of heroism and selfless dedication from the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

The regiment is fiercely proud of its links with Stirling, as the town is of its own regiment. Many of the almost 7,000 officers and men who laid down their lives for their country in the Great War were "Sons of the Rock".

Since the Second World War the regiment has seen more active service than any other Scottish regiment, further enhancing its unsurpassed reputation for professionalism, whether in combat or in support of a civil power.

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Project 4

Project 4 is a documentary about the historic Stirling Castle.

We will be making a video showcasing the historic beauty of the castle, with most of the class planning to do a bit of presenting.

My job is to present a segment about the castle museum, more specifically the regimental museum.

I will be writing a script for a 2-3 minute piece that I will use on the day of filming.

We are scheduled to visit the castle on Thursday 29th April, and we need to get all filming done on that day, and everything else can be done afterwords.

Monday, 19 April 2010

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!