Tuesday 29th March 2011

Heyy Blogger! Today Today Today... Well as you know this is our second week of campaigning. My group has come to a conclusion of making a range of shampoos for different hair textures e.g. dreadlocks, afro, perm, Jerry curls and so. We noticed that Dove only made shampoo for a certain target audience. In addition to that, Dove doesnt make shampoo for men. This is how we came to a conclusion of what we were campaigning. The way we advertise this is by making an audio radio advert. We have made a song called 'All Types of Hair'. Now we are going to make notes of questions we will ask people to put answers in our advert. I really enjoy what we are doing. It sound really fun and exciting exploring tyhe ideas of a brand. Can't Wait!

Tuesday 15th February 2010

Hi Blogger!
Today we sarted of a a big class group. Our teacher seperated us into our assigned groups in the festival. I Am product manager of media, so I was put with the other product mangaers. Our task was to discuss how we wanted the festival to run. We also had to come up with a festival name.

The name i came up with was 'Stero Break'. I got this name because our whole reason for the festival is to breaj stereo types.

In the end of the whole class debate we came up with the name 'Stereo Break @ The Coast', because our festival is taking place at the Gold Coast.

Later on in the day i had to do the dance performance rehearsals. We improved our moves and beats. Also we added more dance steps to the routine. Now our piece looks a whole lot better

Tuesday 25th Jnauary 2011

Hey Bloggers!
Today was a long day. First things first we were still researching on festivals.
Our aim today was to complete a presentation on the five different festivals researched.
The festivals i chose were mainly from the category of music e.g. L.E.D Festival & The Wireless Festival. These are both musical festival which are targeted at late teens and mid twenties (Club Goers). They advertise pop, funky, elcetric & rock music.

When our time was up we were split into small groups of 3-4 people. We presented our research to these people.

Afterwards we were all put together as one big group to brainstorm and discuss ideas for our festivakl. our main topic was venue. Place we thought of were theatres, clubs, churches, halls and so on.

Today was a really good day ilearnt a lot about festivals. There are many types hat i never really intended to research, but after the task given to us i wouldn't mind visiting a few. Also I really excited about organising one.

Tuesday 2nd November 2010

Hmmm! New things happening.
Well today was my first day back of the winter term. A big suprise was awaiting upon us diploma ditties. 'X' a proffesional street dance teacher came in to our class to teach us a street routine. We warmed up then learnt all the steps to a real fun dance to the song 'Whip My Hair' by 'Willow Smith' (Will Smith's Nine Year Old Daughter).

Later on that afternoon we were put to the steel pans, but this wasn't no ordianry trinadadian music. it was time for rock 'n' roll. We were put on different pans. I was put on the tenners. We were taught how to play 'I'm A Believer, by 'The Monkees.

I think today was a really fun day I got learn new skills like playng the pans especially the tenners. Which to me is the most challenging part.

Tuesday 14th September 2010

Week 1

Hey Blogger! Yepp Year 11 ‘Diploma Ditties’. We didn’t get up to the usual, you know, dance then drama or media then art. This term we were doing something completely different … DJ-ING!!! Two guys from 'Point Blank' were standing in front of us with 3 decks layed out on 3 desks. The introduction to the course began. It was very interesting. I had been on decks before at my friends house but that was just for a joke. My dad also has his own set of decks. After all the chit chat the two instructors/pro Dj’s (Nigel & Ian) took apart all the equipment apart from the decks and split the group up to put us onto different decks to try set up the decks. After that was done they demonstrated scratching, drop mixing and cross fading. They took they’re music of a laptop connected to the vinals. Next they asked each student to come up and demonstrate these three skills. I got the sratching one just like that the drop mix and cross fader was a bit more challenging.

This course is worth half a GCSE and we will be assessed of the skills we have learnt throughout these five weeks on the last day.

Well Week One Not So Hard … Four More Weeks To Go!

Tuesday 7th September 2010

Today was our first day back from the summer holidays. Nothing practical happened today which is a bit disappointing. We were told that next week we were starting a 5 week DJing Course. However we could only do the course if you make a power point presentation or leaflet on the disk jockey, just so you know a little about it before you start the course. Alexus and I decided to make a PowerPoint presentation together. This is saved in my documents separately. I really enjoyed doing my PowerPoint with Alexus. I think this pre-research was useful because we have a little knowledge before we start the course.

Tuesday 8th June 2010

Today I started of with media we all went to the studio to do some shooting. Last week we made a very detailed story board of our first shots. Our teacher told us that today we had to film our shots and afterwards we would edit them. I was the camera lady. It was real fun saying cut and action I felt like a boss. My group and I took several shots in four scenes. When we were done we stored our film onto a program called final cut express which was installed on an apple Mac.

Later on that day we did art. Our task was to take an image out of our photo montage and re-do it on A2 paper, or do a big poster on your topic (child labour).

I used paint for my poster.