EMMA BIGGS CRAMBA EVIDENCE

http://l2-emmab.blogspot.com/2010/01/positives-and-negatives-of-our-cramb.html

http://l2-emmab.blogspot.com/2010/01/samba-in-cambridge-research-report.html

http://l2-emmab.blogspot.com/2010/01/270110.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-The-Haiti-Earthquake-Creative-And-Media-/300497629767 

learning objective 1 : http://vimeo.com/9178895

learning objective 3: http://vimeo.com/11867191

 

This is the Reading festival 2010 website.

http://www.readingfestival.com/home/ 

this is the festival website where i took my screen grab from.

progress report

I am currently writing an article on radio & audio. I have written about Heart radio and its events, also I emailed them to ask if I can interview them but haven't heard back. My aim is to talk about the events and what's recently been happening. 

my role in the newspaper

my role in the newspaper is radio and audio. I have based it on 

About the junction

at the junction there is 3 rooms to perform in.

they cater for families and children when they are with there families at theatre performances. And also teenagers for fiver nights.

They offer music events such as bands where as corn exchange doesnt have gigs instead it has concerts but junction has gigs. Junction and corn exchange both have comedy and plays.

junction questions to ask the staff

how did you get into this line of work?

how come you wanted to work here out of all places?

what inspired you to want to work in this industry? 

SCENE SESSION 1: Initial Research

http://www.visitcambridge.org/VisitCambridge/WhatToSeeAndDo.aspx

Things to See and Do

Compact and easy to get around, there's always something new to see and do in the city. Historic and modern buildings to visit, world-renowned museums, fantastic theatre and live music - Cambridge is an incredibly family-friendly place with a host of attractions to keep everyone happy.

Theatres and Cinemas

Cambridge is home to the famous Footlights Review that has given us comedy giants Peter Cook, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell and the Monty Python team. If you are lucky, you can check out the latest Footlights offering at the ADC Theatre. There are no less than 4 prestigious theatres in the city, three multi screen cinemas, three large concert halls for classical and rock music and any number of smaller venues for drama, dance, comedy and music of all kinds.

27/01/10 cramba

Today I uploaded our design ideas for our masks onto the cramba blog, I also uploaded a post onto my own blog which was about the location that we are going to perform cramba at, i also weighed out the pro's and con's, and the benefits of different places.

we have decided to perform on the market sqaure - cambridge outside guild hall.

The positives and negatives of our cramb performance

Q. If it were to rain on our performance day?

A. We would perform in Grande Arcade instead

Q. If someone didn't turn up to the performance?

A. someone would have to change instruments and they will fail the  module.

Q. If the van with the instruments broke down what would happen?

A. we would have to find alternitives such as sorting out a different way for our instruments to be taken to town instead. 

Our two chosen locations are:

The market sqaure and grande arcade - Cambridge

samba in cambridge research report

The different band members interract with each other being part of the band all together, they play music as a group and perform to the general public.

they perform in big groups like 20 or 30 people, each playing a different instrument.

here is us organising our cramba which we made t-shirts for, here is us making the t-shirts.

also here are the costumes we made and

 us painting the big poster

we did this so we stood out, we made masks and things like these.

petition results

This is my petition, I got 38 people to sign for free cinema tickets for 16-19year olds. I also made a facebook group and now have 81 members.

I have decided to send my petitions to cineworld cinemas in Cambridge, Vue cinema in grafton - Cambridge and the picture house cinema. And hopefully get a positive response. 25boys, 12 girls

my plan for my campaign

Today I plan to go to cineworld - Cambridge to ask the cinema people about what offers they have or would negociate with about free cinema tickets, I will approach people and ask them if they think there should be more offers and more avaliable for teenagers, I will proberly speak to each person for about 3 to 5 minutes and ask them what they think of my campaign and for some feedback.

Number 1.

Research into free cinema tickets.

for example, orange wednesday offers one person on the network orange to go to cinema, its called 2 for 1, one person pays the other gets in for free. 

my campaign idea is similar to this except its a free cinema pass for a week every 4months. 

My aim of my campaign is to get teenagers a free cinema pass for a week every 4 months to see the film of there choice, similar to orange wednesdays, although the problem with orange wednesdays is its only for wednesdays so if people are busy on wednesday then and they don't have any money and you miss orange wednesdays you won't have chance to go see a film until the next orange one.

campaign research

The sectretary of Cambridge & District Trades Union Council, Tom Woodcock,  came and gave us a talk today about the campaigns he has done, the campaign I thought was the best was when they supported the postal workers pay strike, they raised money for the royal mail workers for the money they would earn whilst they were off work. On the 31st October 2009 they stood outside of Cambridge United football ground and asked for donations before and after the game, some people even gave up to £20 towards the fund to make up for the postal staff that were on strike, they were on strike because royal mail were cutting jobs, cutting pensions and increasing work load and were not getting enough money for what they were being made to do.

http://cambridgeanddistricttradescouncil.blogspot.com/2009/10/support-your-postal-workers-this.html 

They made various different websites to let people know what they planned to do and what there aim of going to the football ground was to do and what was their intention, they also made plackards to advertise and make people more aware what it was they were doing. Afterwards they gave the postal workers who were on strike what they had raised and what they would be entilted to if they had gone to work, although it wasn't as much as they would have earned although it was better than nothing. 

Blog reflection

What did I do today?

 

Today I started to design my final stencil for my t-shirt, on photoshop.

I chose an image off google of a cinema ticket because it would be too difficult to design one myself although I did make alot of changes to the ticket and made it my own. 

I haven't finished it yet although I think it has gone well so far, because it's already quite basic.

If I had more time to design my stencil I proberly would have tried to do more my own thing rather than using google to help me, although i think my design will be just as good once i've finished.

Tomorrow I have to finish my design, print it the stencil and start to cut it out, and then start my t-shirt slideshow.

homework - campaigning.

1. Campaign idea's that would make your life better

My campaign idea that I think would make my life better is to push the minimum wage up to 10 pounds an hour for jobs.

2. Campaign idea's to improve the qaulity of life for someone else

My campaign idea that I think would improve the quality of life for someone else is to make university either free or alot cheaper than it is.

3. Campaign for something that would make someone smile

My campaign idea that I think would make someone smile is free cinema pass for a week.



- Why would it bring intrest to 16-19 year olds?

My first campaign would suit this age range because teenagers my age job hunt alot, and often find the places avaliable don't pay well enough, but I think £10 an hour could be too much, but I don't think places would have any difficulty hiring people as if the pay was good more people would apply for jobs, and want to work more hours.

My second campaign would suit this age range well also because alot of students want to go onto university after sixth form, but sometimes there parents can't afford it, where as if the accommodation and tuition were cheaper, it would be easier for parents to save up for it, because its so expensive at the moment, students are having to pay for bills and uttility needs themselves from loans, so they come out in debt, if it were cheaper it wouldn't take so long to pay back debts and compainies could lend out more knowing students will pay it back sooner, and parents could afford more for there children and help pay for essentials such as food that the students need and can't pay for by themselves with no jobs whilst at uni.


My third campaign is a free cinema pass for a week, I think this would be good for people aged 16 - 19 as most teenagers enjoy getting out at the weekend after a long week at school/college, and it would be a good chance to get out with friends and socialize, when new films come out they would be more popular because they would be free to go see, although this would mean the film companies and cinema loose a bit of money because they wouldn't be paying to see the film, although this pass would only be for a week, and not so often, could be like every 6 months.

 

Banksy is an anynomus graffeti artist from Bristol.

I chose this design because it is surreal. 

I like how it is random and odd.

I like how Banksy has done the graffeti all black and white because Zebra's are black and white, I think its got humour as its not something you'd regualary come across. 

I think the composition is intresting as its africa and thats normal to see that thre but here in England it is not normal at all to be hanging up your washing and having a zebra standing watching.

battlefront video report

I chose the video 'Random acts of kindness' 

Random Acts Of Nastiness from Battlefronters on Vimeo.

 

i like this video because it gets the message across without being boring.

it keeps your attention because it is humerous, the point of the video is, 'its hard to be mean and you should instead always be nice', the video plays on it humour in this video.

My campaign

The question I asked my class mates was " do you think everyone should get along"? 

These are my results.

I wasn't surprised with my results as I think it is quite a sensible question.

Although one person did disagree, the persons reason for this is he thinks everyone should hate somebody.

The reason I asked the question is because I personally think it would be a better place if everyone got along and I think it is a topic that would solve many other things such as bullying and arguments. 

My cram logo

This is my cram logo i designed to represent creative media diploma at Long Road sixth form college. When i made this logo it was the first time I had used photoshop so I hadn't experimented it alot, So with what I did know I designed this. I wrote media by cutting out different letters from various magazines, I wanted to make it look creative aswell as representing a creative diploma. Although this was just my draft and I edited on photoshop I wanted to make it more tidy and also make the film strips more wavy so they look more realistic. I don't think my logo would work because its not very clear of what creative media includes. This could represent film studies as it looks more to do with film studies but I think i should have to added paint splats or something different to make it better.

Analysis of 2 designs from t-shirt websites.

 

This is the t-shirt i chose from www.threadless.com

I think this t-shirts different, i wouldn't wear it myself but i like the design, the other t-shirt i have chosen is pretty this one is more different as its just one design and can be worn by anyone, where as the other t-shirt looks pretty and it would be warn by girls. I like both t-shirts although i would more likley wear the t-shirt from www.spreadshirt.com

both t-shirts differ in design they are completely different but they are both funky.

This is a picture from www.spreadshirt.com

I chose this t-shirt because i would wear it myself, its simple also different.

its made to look as if your wearing a necklace although its printed on the top. 

i think its funky, you can also get it in various different colours.

History of the t-shirt

http://pro.corbis.com/images/HU052637.jpg?size=67&uid=D259AD2D-5A41-467B-98FA-6B394DCE41B8

http://www.toolazytodoit.com/t-shirts.jpg

In the early twentieth century, the t-shirt became very popular in America. Now the t-shirt is very well know in the twenty-first century, the T-shirt is known world wide.

The T-Shirt was made during WWI when American troops noticed European soldiers wearing a comfortable and lightweight cotton undershirt, when it was humid in the summer days. Compared to the wool uniforms that the American soldiers wore, these undershirts were cooler and more comfortable and they quickly caught on with the Americans. Due to their simple design, these shirts became known in the USA as "T" shirts or, as we know them now, "T-Shirts".

http://www.t-shirtcountdown.com/t-shirts/history.html

In the 1920's , the "t-shirt" had become part of the official american english language.

By 1955, the T-Shirt was tolerated worn without another shirt covering it. Then James Dean made the T-Shirt real cool in "Rebel Without A Cause". James Dean made the T-Shirt a contemporary symbol of rebellious youth.In the 60's people began to tie dye and screenprint the basic cotton T-Shirt making it an even bigger commercial success. Advances in printing and dying allowed more variety and the Tank Top, Muscle Shirt, Scoop Neck, V-Neck, and many other variations of the T-Shirt came in to fashion.

Now a days the t-shirt is a very popular clothing and is worn by everyone everyday.

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