Here is the Website to have a Look at the Website and some of the Activities on offer
Welcome to Southbank
This involves comparing what there is to do in Local surrounding areas for 14-19 year olds, and what there is to do in the Southbank, by looking at it there isn't a lot of difference between the Two.
In My local area's, I have chosen to do the O2 and look at what there is to do there. Inside the O2, there are restaurants, clubs, a news-agent, and further down inside the building they always have a different thing You can do depending on the time of Year, i.e in the Summer they have a beach, and in the Winter, they will have an ice rink.
Yesterday, the College took a trip to the Southbank to see what activities there was for 14-19 Year olds, I picked up some leaflets while I was there, these are of the few that I picked up, the National Theatre, a Leaflet called Experience London which tells You all the best Places to go and see around London, some of these Leaflets were picked from Charing Cross Station.
Today (27'th November) in Mandy's double lesson, we had a speaker come in to talk to us. He was a journalist from the Observer which is the sister paper of the Guardian.
His name was Paul, and he told us all about his job as a Sub editor, his job is to basically make sure the articles flow nicely, that they fit on the page well enough. He also makes sure that the text is even and has been justified. The newspaper is always working frantically in order to meet deadlines.
In College and non newspaper People call it a text but in the Newspaper industry it is called a copy.
He was telling us about what he exactly does for the Newspaper , he writes a monthly article for the newspaper, he interviews a Celebrity every month about their likes and dislikes of Music, he also contributes on a monthly basis to the sport section of the newspaper.
He also told us that with these newspapers you must give a FLAVOUR of the promotion, but do not give too much away otherwise it spoils it for the readers and People that are generally interested in that particular article.
He did a Journalism course at the National College of Printing in Elephant and Castle, he didn't have a contract but at the same time he was working for Magazines, if You didn't work You didn't get Paid.
He was telling us where he worked at a Magazine called Sounds, another one called Echoes and he has now worked for the Guardian for Five Years, also he was telling us that You have to have online skills, because some of the articles are now being written online and the Journalism industry is changing so drastically. However it opens up plenty of different opportunities for new things.
They also have very strict rules about deadlines as do many other places away from Newspaper publications, even if You miss one deadline if can effect the whole publication because then it will have to be left blank, if You miss one deadline it's a telling off, but if You miss more than one then You run a serious risk of being terminated from the company.
In the Red pages, Paul was telling us that a interview with a celebrity could potentially boost your reputation, and then more "Celebrities" will want to have the interview with the publication.
On Monday in Mandy's lesson, we made four rough designs of leaflets. We had four pieces of Paper and we folded them in different ways to get different layouts and then we had to choose one that was going to be our final design and then we made it rough on a seperate piece of paper. On the paper, we wrote on it where certain things were going to go, i.e Logo on front, map on back, ect, then we swapped with the person next to us and we wrote comments on the work to say what is needed, e.g. Pictures, Colour, if a section has been left out.
On Tuesday in Frank's lesson, I began the rough process of beginning my leaflet, here is the front page of it:
Example Poll - Would my guide attract 16-19s to London's South Bank for Creative Media Activities and Events?
This is an example of a Poll that could be taken to have Leaflets evaluated by others to see what they think of the general appeal of it, if they think the tone and images are great, are okay or not good and need some development.
I have now completed three activities on the Leaflet: London Eye, National Theatre, and the Aquarium, and am in the middle of doing a Fourth activity which is the London Imax Cinema and I have done a page promoting a made-up event on the Southbank.
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