Masks

For the performance of the samba we thought wearing masks would be a good idea, so we looked up prices for masks, for the boys we thought they should were full face masks and for the girls to wear eye masks. We looked on many craft and fancy dress shop websites to try and find the masks we wanted at a reasonable price. We found full face masks for 60p each, the cheapest eye masks we found were £1.20 each, we needed 13 masks for the girls and it came to £24, and for the boys the total came to £3.60. We had a budget of £50 and we only spent £27.60, so I think our budgeting went well.

URL'S

http://l2-ambers.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html

http://l2-ambers.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html

http://l2-ambers.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_08.html

http://l2-ambers.blogspot.com/2010/05/masks.html

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

http://vimeo.com/9178895

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Origins Of Festivals

A festival is an event usually put on by a local community, which celebrates some unique aspect of their community. When the word Festival is used it is most often referred to a religious festival rather that a film o art festival. The word fest comes from the Middle English, from Middle French word festivus, from the Latin word festivus. The word festival was first recorded as a noun in 1589. Many types of festivals serve to meet specific needs and to entertain. Modern festivals that focus on cultural or ethnic topics seek to inform members of their traditions. Back in the day festivals were a time for the elderly people to share their stories and to transfer certain knowledge to the next generation.

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Folk Museum

When we was walking through to the entrance of the Folk museum we went past big wooden doors with a doorbell hanging from the ceiling, we carried on walking for a few seconds till we got to the entrance. As we walked in no one was expecting it to be so modern, all the walls were white, with laminated wooden flooring and the art wasn't what everyone thought it would it would look like. There was a wall which had tiny pixils projected onto it, from far away it looked like it was still and then when you get closer to it you can see tiny square pixils changing colours.

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Scene Session 1: Initial Research

Cambridge Information Websites

Whats On?
http://www.visitcambridge.org/VisitCambridge/WhatsOn.aspx

Cambridge Online!
http://www.colc.co.uk/about/events.html

Itchy!
http://www.itchycambridge.co.uk/


Venues

Junction
http://www.junction.co.uk/

Corn Exchange
http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/portal/

Cineworld
http://www.cineworld.co.uk/

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Risk Assessment

I think it is important to do a risk assessment for outdoor performances as there are many dangers, especially if we have equipment, If we were carrying the instruments to the market square from the junction many accidents could occur, for example someone could injure themselves, people may have bad backs and carrying an instrument may cause damage to them. Also if a student dropped an instrument and broke it then the college or student would be reliable to pay for it. As we are walking to the market there will be a lot of moving vehicles and if we were carrying the instruments and on of the students dropped it and it rolled into the road it could cause an accident.
The impact it has made on changing the day of the performance is alright, we are very prepared, and we only have to do a few things ready for the day, for example email everyone and letting them know that the date has changed, changing the posters and so on.

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Dress Rehersal

Yesterday we had a dress rehersal at the junction, I think it went really well. Everyone wore the T-shirts and they looked really good, I think everyone felt comfortable no one complained. I think the outfits were very successful but the boys masks were to small for their faces.
If we had more time i think we would of made sure all the masks were the right size of every one and we wouldn't of rushed them.

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Samba!

SMU Samba Band

I went on to, www.youtube.co.uk to look for samba videos, I watched a few videos but didn't find any that appealed to me, then I found this one, the reason I choose this samba video is because it's really fun and upbeat, it has a really funky beat to it and everyone looks like they are enjoying themselves.
The performance is really good, they are all dancing and look like they are having a really good time, they are all dressed in white they haven't got any logo's of anything on they're clothes, The location is at the launch of the ABC Waters exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum.
My own experience of Samba, I find it really fun and intresting how all the different instruments make different noise's but when all played together is sounds really good, another thing i find intresting is how you can play any kind of music using these instuments, including; Dub-Step, Drum And Bass, Funky Etc. It includes alot of concentration as you have to listen to what everyone else is playing and try keep in time with everyone else. It teaches you communication skills aswell as you have to know what everyone is doing. I really enjoy going to The Junction on a thursday to play Samba.

Plans For Todays Campaign

Today I will be campaigning for Child Abuse to stop, I am planning to go to the town center of Cambridge, The people i am hoping to speak to are parents and other general people, I am not sure on how long it will take but it shouldn't take long no longer than an hour i should think.
The methods that I'm going to use to influence opinion are information and persuasion.
My expectations for this campaign today are to raise awareness about the issue, and hopefully to let people know that it has to stop!!

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Researching Campaigns!

Today Tom Woodcock the Secretary of the Cambridge and Districts Trade Union Council came in to our lesson to tell us all about campaigns, Tom knows alot about holding, researching and planning campaigns as he has participated in many, including; Save Jobs at Cambridge University Press, Postal Workers Strike, Stop the War Coalition and Give Blood. They are only a few of the campaigns Tom has been in, he has participated in many more. Tom gave us lots of information about campaigning and what is needed to do to make a strong campaign. A Campaign that we have been discussing in class which Tom Woodcock participated in is The Postal Workers Strike, Tom and a team of others distributed over 3000 leaflets explaining everything about the dispute, they raised around £300 which they gave to the post workers as they were on strike and was not getting paid for the day off, obviously that wasn't enough money to cover all the workers wages but they were grateful for they were doing for them. The people who run this campaign have said: Ordinary people are not responsible for the crisis, it is the banker’s fault and they should be made to pay back the debt. This information is from the website : http://cambridgeanddistricttradescouncil.blogspot.com/

This is a picture from the campaign.

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Screen-Printing Campaigne T-Shirt!

Firstly we we had to choose a campaigne, I chose to do: Stop Child Abuse. We then had to come up with 3 ideas of what design would be suitable for the cause and the t-shirt. My T-Shirt is sort of aimed towards one type of Child Abuse, For example Children who get kid-napped and get held hostage and get abused.
I come up with a saying: Stranger=Danger. It just means that children need to look out for who they talk to, if it is a stranger it could lead to danger as you don't know what that person is like.
This Is What My Design Looked Like When I Done It In Photo-Shop:
But On My T-shirt The Word Stranger Is Green And The = Sign Is Yellow.

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Campaign Idea's!

We Had To Come Up With Three Campaign Idea's, One To Improve My Own Life, One To Improve Someone Else's Life and One To Make Someone Smile Here Are my Idea's;

My First Idea For A Campaign To Make My Life Better Is For College To Start Later Than Nine o'Clock At Least Twice A Week, As I Start At Nine Every Morning, And I'm Really Not A Morning Person, So This Would Improve My Life.
My Second Idea; To Improve Someone Else's Life Is To Put A Stop To Child Abuse! This Would Improve So Many Childrens Lives, There Are So Many Children That Get Abused Everyday And People Don't Evan Know About it! This Needs To Stop So They Can Have A Happy Childhood, Childhood Is Very Important In Life.
My Third Idea For: To Make Someone Smile, Is To Get Free Hot Chocolate In The Morning, As It's A Nice Way To Start The Day, And I'm Sure It Would Put A Smile On Most People's Faces!

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Poll!

We Had To Create A Poll On A Social Networking Website, In This Case I Chose To Put My Poll On www.facebook.com.
Here Is My Poll;

At The Moment Only Two People Have Voted;

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My Top Five Tips To Myself Are;

* To Take More Timing Planning My Design, To Make Sure That My Design Is Exactly How I Want It.

* Make Sure I Have Cut Everything Out That I Want.

And I Can't Think Of A More.

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Stencil Art Evaluation

For This Mini Project We Had To Create A Stencil, To Then Spray Onto Paper Or A T-Shirt. First We Had To Come Up With Four Designs, We Then Got Feedback From The Rest Of The Class, We Then Had To Pick Out Favourite And Draw It Onto a A3 Sized Bit Of Paper. After Finalising Our Image We Then Had To Re-Create Our Design In Photo shop, We Had To Add Bridges To Our Design So When We Cut It Out None Of The Bits We Wanted Fell Off. Once We Printed It Out And Onto Acetate We Had To Cut It Out Using A Stanley Knife, We Had To Be Careful Not To Cut Out Any Of The Bits We Needed. After Cutting Out Our Stencils We Then Finally Got To Spray Paint Them.
One Of The Things I Learnt From This Technique Such As Putting Bridges On Our Designs So Anything We Needed Didn't Come Unattached Or Anything. What Im Most Pleased With Is That My Design Came Out How I Wanted It Too. The Bit I Would Change Is The Hat, As It Has No Colour In It, I Only Realised I Hadn't Cut It Out When I Got Outside To SprayPaint It, Other Than That I Came Out How I Wanted It Too.

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Banksy!

Banksy Is A Anonymous Graffiti Artist, He is believed to of been born near Bristol in 1974 that makes him 35. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s. His artworks are often pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris.
This Piece of Stencil Art Work Is Very Clever, Its A Maid Cleaning The Floor, Banksy Has Made It Look Like Shes Pulling The Paint Up From The Wall To Put The Dirt Under It.


This Is Banksy's Tag, If You See Any Stencil Art Work and It Hasn't Got This Tag Then It Is Not Done By The Real Banksy.




I Think All Of Banksy's Stencil Art Work Is Really Effective, He Doesn't Use A Wide Variety Of Colours On The Stencil Art Work I Chose, He Only Used Black And White, But The Piece Of Stencil Art Work Doesn't Need Any Other Colours As It Is A Maid. He Uses Humour In A Clever Way, As You Can See On This Piece Where The Maid Is Pulling Up The Curtain To Put Whatever She Was Cleaning Up Under There, He Made Her Look Out To The Audience While She's Doing It To Make Her Look Like She's Watching Out For People While She's Doing It.

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Survey

I Done A Survey Of What I Would Like This Was: I Would Like Free Holidays Abroad. Everyone I Asked Replied Yes They Would Like Free Holidays Abroad. I Couldn't Really Do A Pie Chart On How Many People Agreed And Who Disagreed As It Would Be A 100% Agreed. So I Done It On Age Instead. This Is The Chart I Got, There Was Three 17 Year Olds And Eleven 16 Year Olds.

In This Chart I Used The Information About Gender And Age, This Shows That More 16 Year Old Female Would Like Free Holidays Abroad.

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T-Shirt Designs!

I Looked At Two T-Shirt Websites, www.threadless.com and www.tilteed.com. I Looked Through Most Of The Pages Of Designs Of T-Shirts, The T-Shirt I Liked The Look Of Most From www.threadless.com Was This:
On This T-Shirt It Says; If Your Pants Are On Fire, Being A Liar Becomes Less Important. I Like This Design Because Its Not Just An Image It Has Text As well So If You Don't Get What The Image Is Signifying Then It Has The Text To Basically Tell You What The Image Is Saying. This T-Shirt Stood Out To Me Because It's Bright, Has Humour, The first Thing I Looked At When I Saw This T-Shirt Was The Image, After Looking At The Image I Read The Text.
This T-Shirt Attracts Attention And That's What It Needs To Do To Sell.
The Next T-Shirt I Chose Is This One From; www.tilteed.com.
This T-Shirt Stood Out To Me As It Has A Great Image And Everyone Knows Who The Characters Are On The T-Shirt, The Colours Are Simple, They Aren't Very Bright Colours, That's Not What Attracted Me To The T-Shirt, What Attracted Me To It Was The text; "To Geek Or Not To Geek" Which I Found Hilarious As It Is Taking The Mick Out Of "To Be Or Not To Be".

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History Of The T-Shirt!

History Of The T-Shirt.
T-Shirt Didn’t Become A Word In The English Dictionary Until The 1920’s and The Style Didn’t Enter Mainstream Fashion Until The 1960’s. Up until the 1950’s, t-shirts were still considered underwear, until John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and James Dean shocked Americans by wearing their “underwear” on T.V. In 1955, James Dean helped make the T-shirt a standard item of clothing in Rebel Without a Cause.


The History Of Blu Inc T-Shirts,
In 1912 The Company Was Founded, The Company Was Originally Trading As A Levy & Sons, They Then Rebranded to Blu Inc In 1997 To Cater For The Young Fasionable Men. In 2006 The Company Rapidly Expanded The Blu Inc Brand And A Chain Of 80 Stores Across the UK.

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