Unit 1 Digital Images

I have had to change my work that I am doing for Brian which involves the Animation work. My original plan was to do Charlton Athletic but I have discussed it with Brian and now we have decided that it is going to be quite hard to do, so we have decided to do the Southbank as the new topic. The reason why I am no longer doing Charlton is because some of the pictures weren't practical to take. I am now filling in a table to indicate what pictures I am taking, the reason for taking it, how I will get the Picture and how I will edit it. Now I need to add on some Pictures to it and highlight what the main picture is and what are the other main pictures that go with it.

Campaign- research and preparation for my own Campaign

We have started a new unit for Frank and Mandy called Campaign. So far we have been looking at all different Campaigns that there are, such as Anti Smoking, Drugs, Bullying and Racism and so on. We were set a piece of work where we had to find three different examples of Campaigns. I had two different examples of Campaigns, one was for making a new start for the new year the right way, and the second one was a plea campaign to help the victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

I realised that my third example was actually more of an advert , so I am going to use the anti smoking campaign below as my third example.

This is a campaign I have found online for anti smoking

http://www.bhf.org.uk/keeping_your_heart_healthy/preventing_heart_disease/smoking.aspx

My other two examples will be done on Paper, one is about starting the New Year in the right way, the actual title of it is: NEW YEAR, NEW START- MAKE A RESOLUTION THAT CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR LIFE. It is to do with making sure you enter the year with the right qualifications and make sure you are doing something you want to actually do, i.e job, college course, apprenticeship.

The other is to do with the Haiti appeal and it is a campaign of a plea for help to give money towards the Haiti Earthquake and help out the people that are struggling with the aftershock of the quake.

On Friday in Mandy's lesson, we went online and choose another three different Campaigns. My three different campaign were Crime, Drugs and Smoking.

This is my crime campaign:

This is my drugs campaign:

This is my smoking campaign:

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Last week ( Week beginning 18'th January) Mandy gave us a booklet which is called 5.1.1

Checklist for analysing campaigns. On the first page, called poster research findings, I wrote about the three campaigns I have done above. We had to fill out a table, giving the name of the campaign, the main message of the poster, who the poster is aimed at, and is the poster effective in getting it's message across?

On the next page there is a campaign analysis, where you name your campaign, and you also have to state the different creative and media forms in the campaign.

And the final section is called campaign research findings, the questions begin to repeat a little bit, the main message of the campaign, who are the target audience for the campaign? The methods that have been used in the campaign, and was the campaign successful?

The Booklet needs to be completed by first day back from Half Term (22'nd February) and every page and section needs to be completed to be able to move on with the Campaign section.

Now (23'rd February) I need to properly kick off the campaign and start it off on Pages. Some information, an Eye-catching headline, some pictures of the campaign to draw attention into it.

The Campaign is going to be Smoking, and I am going to have different sections:

The Effects of Smoking, The Problems with Smoking, Young People Smoking,

The Price of Cigarettes, Smoking in the Past.

Maybe add some Images of the effects that Smoking has on the body.

For example: Here is a Picture of the effects of smoking

Aims of the Campaign- To warn 15-19 year olds about the side effects of Smoking and the effects it can have on the body.

Objectives: To try to get People to think twice about Smoking.

To also inform about the inflated prices of Cigarettes.

I have now started the campaign. I have added a Picture from my original starting smoking campaign, and a picture I have found

Timeline radio trailer Brian

Now that we have finished our radio play, Brian has asked us to produce a 30 second- 1 minute trailer promoting our radio play, using clips from the radio play and Music to go with the trailer, also have to remember not to give too much away.

Some of the clips can come from the beginning and middle of the play, but try not to take it from the end otherwise it can spoil it or give away.

Also there needs to be a Voiceover to guide the listeners or viewers through the trailer and give them the general gist of what is going on. The clips will be from the radio play I have done in lesson with Ryan, maybe as well in the trailer include some Music that is from the actual Radio play so it fits in and gives it a true feel to the people viewing it.

As well as stated before, it is okay to give away little bits but not too much

Evaluation of Module Mike

2.1.1- The beginnings of Performance

Research Activity

Many different forms of performance had their origin in religious rites and ceremonies. The tragedies and comedies that are the roots of many modern plays originated in festivals for the God dionysus in ancient Greece.

Terms such as Chorus and scene were first used in Greek theatre.

Use the Internet or library to find out about the origins of one of the forms of performance listed below. Look for information on:

When and where the form originated

Early examples

People who were involved at the beginning

Blues Music

Blues Music originated within African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States.

The term "The Blues" refers to the blue devils, which means sadness, an early use of this term in this sense can be found in George Coleman's Blue Devils (1798).

Involved at the beginning were Bessie Smith in the 1920's with the Twelve Bar Blues, also in Ray Charles's instrumental "Sweet 16 Bars and also in Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man.

Melodrama

Melodrama originated in the 18'th Century, the earliest known examples are from a Latin school play Segismundus from 1753. The first origins of written Music were done by Horace Coignet who wrote in the 1760's and 1770's.

Morality Plays

Morality plays had their origins in Medievil and early Tudor Times and were at their most popular during the 15'th and 16'th centuries. The earliest examples are from Christian Monks who done these in the 13'th Century.

Classical Ballet

Classical Ballet originated in 18'th century France, the earliest examples are from the 18'th and 19'th centuries. At the beginning involved was, Jean-Georges-Nouverre with a French Play in 1760.

Ragtime Music

Ragtime Music had it starting point in the United States in the 1890's, and was very popular in the early 20'th century, the 1900's and 1910's and had a brief popularity in the 1970's. This type of Music was really led by John Philip Sousa.

Sattirya Dance

The dance had it's starting point in 15'th century Assam which is an eastern part of India, it was created by a saint called Srimanta Sankardeva, the dance is still used today and is very popular.

Lindy Hop

The Lindy Hop was born in black communities in Harlem, New York, in 1927, and into the 30's and 40's, only for a little bit of the 50's before fazing out in late 50's, however it experienced renewed popularity in the 1980's.

Restoration Comedy

Restoration Comedy started in 1660 headed up by Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant, they were granted exclusive play staging rights by Charles II.

1980's Alternative Comedy

This type of Comedy would start up in the early 80's and would go on to mainstream publicity in the 1990's and the 2000's. Alternative comedy was usually one of the following: Observational humour, Political satire, Breaking social taboos, Surreal whimsy, Intellectual humour, Extreme slapstick, Improvisation, Story telling and personal narrative.

Punk Rock

Punk had mainstream publicity in the mid 1970's from 1974 to 1976 mainly in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, by such bands as the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash. It experienced renewed popularity in 1991, with Nirvana seen as the leaders of it but this time it was a new type called Grunge. Grunge and Punk Rock was popular from 1991-1994.

Brit pop

Brit Pop really had it's start in 1993-1994 and ended in 1997, with two major bands leading the Britpop craze, Oasis and Blur. In 1995 especially, Britpop was at it's peak of popularity. However by 1997, Britpop was beginning to lose popularity.

History of radio plays

Radio plays had their beginnings in the 1930's, radio plays were unheard of for most of the 1920's and before, however in the very late 1920's the radio plays were beginning to get off the ground. Radio plays were also quite popular throughout the 1930's, however when Tv started to become popular and get off the ground in the mid to late 40's, radio began to decrease in popularity. Only a few of the radio plays managed to survive into the "Tv era". This was for America.

In Britain, it is more or less the same, it achieved worldwide success upon its initial starting point in the 1920's, it was very popular throughout the 30's and 40's, especially in the 40's when it was the leading popular entertainment. However when television was launched in the 1950's radio plays lost popularity in some countries and since has never regained it, in some museums there are still some recordings of old time radio. In Britain however there is a radio play that has always been popular ever since it launched in the early 50's. The Archers had a few brief pilot episodes which began on 29'th May, and ending on 2'nd June 1950.

The programme began on a permanent basis on the 1'st January 1951, and still runs to this very day, as of 31'st January 2010 there has been 16,013 episodes! It is the world's longest running soap and it is now the longest running soap opera of all formats in the world! It is still quite popular today.

2.2.5 Aims of a performance 26/01/10

Devised performance or theatre is usually improvised by the Actors, and thought of before the performance begins.

The theme of the piece is Blues Music .

I chose this theme because the history of it looks quite interesting, and blues music is one of the oldest types of music dating back to the late 1700's.

This type of Music is mainly for Adults and Older People, a lot of young people probably don't like or want to listen to it, it had it's popularity in the early 1900's through to about the 1950's, it began to fall out of popularity in the late 50's to early 60's