T-Shirt feedback

Yesterday we all got feedback on our printed T-Shirts.
We all got some positive and some negative feedback.
People said my T-Shirt was well thought out, easy to understand and the colours i used were good. The negative feedback i got was more constructive and useful than the postive, people said my T-Shirt was a bit plain and it could be less smudged.
After getting feedback on my T-Shirt I think i should of tried harder not to smudge the writting although i remember at the time trying my best not too. I think i also could of used more colour in my design.

Petitions

I have just joined a petition to restrict volume control on headphones or music players.
I think bringing a law in to restrict the volume on headphones and music players would be good as it would limit the number of people who end up with hearing problems or tinnitus ( a ringing in the ears) as they get older.
One of the problems with this campaign is that some songs are quieter than others and may need to be played at a louder volume when listening with an ipod.
The Campaign is a good idea as i know when songs are played loudly through headphones it can do a lot of damage to your ears. As a drummer i play most days and try as much as i can to use ear protectors. Despite this i can tell my ears are not as good as they were due to drums and headphones being too loud. So i think this campaign is good overall.
This is a link for the campaign http://www.blogger.com/Headset-4-2morro/

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Posters

These are the two posters i made for my campaign.
I like the colours i used, i think they work well together. The yellow background with black writing looks like it could be a warning sign and grabs your attention, if i was doing that poster again i might experiment with warning stripes as a background.
If i was doing it again i would also make the font easier to read as it's hard to read the website at the bottom of the poster due to the font i used.

Local residence and traders combined to make a very strong campaign against tesco opening on Mill Road. There were many demonstrations, one big public meeting was held in st. philips Church on Mill Road which was the only local building that could hold so many people against the campaign. There was about 5000 people who signed the petition. Sadly tesco opened on Mill Road but fortunately for those against tesco they were not given permission for an extension on the back and to sell alcohol. Tesco are appealing again about the alcohol licence at the moment trying to get one. My dad was involved in the campaign and said tesco has over 50% of the supermarket sales in Cambridge and thinks that there should be some legal reason against this type of monopoly.

At the time i didn't take much interest in the campaign but after Tom Woodcock talked to us about it i am against it because Mill Road is such a multicultural road and big national stores spoil the individuality of the road.

One of the arguments against tesco was the difficulty of loading and unloading with no legal premition to do this on Mill Road, they had orriginaly argued that they would never send there vehicals down the narrow one way side roads but when tesco were not given premition to load on Mill Road they changed their minds and have since been sending their lorries through the dangerous residential back roads.

Tom Woodcock came into Long Road today to give us a talk on how to protest campaigns and some campaigns he has been involved in and how we could get involved in these sort of campaigns. Tom Woodcock is the secretary of the Cambridge and district trades union. He talked to us about a few campaigns he was involved in one being the post office workers going on strike. The other being to stop tesco coming to Mill Road which i was quite interested in because i live on Mill Road and my parents were involved when the protest was on although at the time i didn't take much interest in the protest. After listening to Tom Woodcock i agree that having Tesco on Mill Road is a bad thing as it is such a multicultural road and many other reasons. Even though their campaign was unsuccessful they still managed to stop them having an alcohol licence and lorries coming to update the stores on mill road because of the danger to cyclists.

Tom Woodcock talked about everything that was involved in making a successful campaign. He talked about how important researching your campaign was and how petitions help. He also talked about writing letters to your the local press and your supporters and making a web page for supporters to join to help your campaign.

I am campaigning for teenagers to have free calls or to pay a minimal cost for a large number of calls.

< These were some of my orignal idea's.

I've been looking at the campaign for 'Free Public Transport' which i think is quite simular to my campaign 'Free Calls'. Campaign's like these haven't been too succsessful before, which is easy to see as people are still paying for the bus each day. But i think we can at least decrease the amount you pay for these kind of things.

The technology required to make phone calls and send text messages is very cheap. Internet calls are virtually free and it only costs a provider approximately 1p for five text messages. Yet young people are normally charged a lot more than this.

The long term target of my campaign is for more teenagers to get free calls. My short term aim for this campaign is to cut down the amount we have to pay. I think teenagers will support this campaign as it is aimed that them, and they will benefit financially, and i'm also sure lots of older people would also support this campaign as they too would want cheaper calls.

The phone companies will be against my campaign because it will mean loss of profits from phone calls for them. If they're able to get teenagers to commit to their network they might benifit from loyalty and good reputation and more customers in the future.

Interview

On Friday i videoed my interview again, i don't think the interview was as good as my first one as it doesn't really sound like an interview because of the way i asked the questons and the responses i got. 'No' 'Yeah' and '20 pound a month' were the replies to my three questions. If i was doing it again i would defiantly make sure i got longer responses and word my questions differently as it was hard for the person i was interviewing to elaborate on what he was saying.

On Wednesday we made a video, we went round the college asking people our three questions about our campaign, a lot of people said they didn't mind us asking the questions but when we said they had to be videoed  they said they didn't want to answer the questions so it was hard finding people. We found a few people but some of us had to interview people in the class as no one wanted to be interviewed. We then edited the video using final cut express but i found that our interview was very unclear as it was recorded in the corridor with a lot of people walking past so i had to make mine again with a few others in a more quiet place.

This is my cram logo i designed to represent creative media diploma at Long Road sixth form college. I wanted to make it look creative as well as representing a creative diploma but this didn't go to well as i rushed a bit as i was late to join the course and have a lot to catch up on. Although this was just my draft I still want to make it look less messy especially with the lettering i have done. I tried to make it look colourful by adding different splodges of colour in the middle, i think this just looks messy and if i was doing it again would defiantly take it out. If i had spent more time on this logo i think i could of made it a lot better, it also doesn't represent the media course very well. I think it could possibly work with film studies though. Overall i think my design looks like something a 5 year old would do.

Video

Fancy a brolly? from Battlefronters on Vimeo.

I chose this video because i think giving out a brolly on a rainy day is a great idea. I think the video is quite effective as its not someone just standing there being all depressed. It's suprising how many people ignored him and don't have time anymore. I'm sure if they spent 20 seconds on there time they would of loved to have been given on free brolly on a rainy day. I would of been a bit suspicious about this campaign though, i would of thought there was some kind of catch to it if i were offered a free brolly.
i think the sound is clear which is good also the actual filming itself was really clear.

Three questions

Tomorrow we're going around asking people three questions about our campaign while videoing their responces - these are my three questons.

Question 1.
Do you have unlimited calls? - if not would you like them?

Question 2.
How much do you pay for your calls?

Question 3.
Do you think having free calls is a good campaign

(Extra question if needed) - How many minutes do you think you use a month?