Samba blog

Learning objective 1. http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html

learning objective 2.

http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/02/risk-assessment.html

Learning objective 3. 

http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/01/today-ive-made-design-for-leaflet-for.html

http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/01/samba.html

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http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/02/cramba-update.html

http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/01/cramba-today.html

Objective 4. 

http://l2-steve.blogspot.com/2010/02/dress-rehearsal.html

T shirt presentation finished

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Final Exam

This week i am going to carry out as much research as possible for my final exam.

i have already set up a facebook page for my t-shirt to get feedback on what people think of it to help for my exam.

Here is the page. 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=205039353506&ref=ts

and here is the link to the picture of my t-shirt that people have commented on which has helped. 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5866295&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=205039353506&id=617049967

I am currently making a closed survey for people to fill out so i can make a graph and also an open survey to get more feedback from people. 

kettles yard review

Kettles yard is a rather special art gallery, in the centre of Cambridge. I did not know that it existed before my visit, and was surprised to find that on the outside, the gallery appeared to be a very old and pretty house. Once inside, there is a cosy feel, with furniture that you can sit on, a small toilet, and a large library upstairs.

Kettles Yard was a gift to Cambridge University by the former assistant curator of the Tate Gallery Jim Edes. Edes wanted the gallery to be a place where visitors felt at home and were welcomed. I certainly felt this welcome and a sense of peace inside. It does not feel like an art gallery, as the art is all around the house. If you enjoy visual arts and music, this is a good place to visit.

This photo gives you an idea of how some of the works of art are displayed inside the house.

Beside the old house there is a newer building where you can find many contemporary works of art. The picture to the right is an example of the unusual work that you can find. This was on a big screen, and at first I thought it looked like a TV that wasn’t working, but after looking at it for a while, I found it relaxing to look at. Even if you are not really into art, I think you would enjoy this place, and begin to find an interest in artwork.

Entrance is free, so you cannot go wrong in paying this place a visit if you have an hour to spare.

Foals review, scene.

Foals

I was at the Junction when Foals were having their sound check and from the little I heard, it sounded brilliant. I was therefore really looking forward to hearing them during the evening. I was not disappointed; in fact I continued to be amazed by their live performance. There was an exceptional performance from the guitarist, who had sweat dripping from his forehead and when the band broke into their hit single Cassius, the crowd went completely insane with drinks flying everywhere and small mashies breaking out even around the edge of the crowd. All the band members gave 110% despite having a whole months tour ahead of them. If you get the opportunity to go and see this band perform, you will not be disappointed.

The Fitzwilliam museum is an interesting place to visit. There are many rooms with paintings, sculptures and various artifacts. I was particularly interested in a vessel called Neck-amphola. This vessel was made a very long time ago in Athens, around 540 - 550 BC. The vessel is particularly fascinating because it is very detailed. The person who made it must have had a lot of skill. I would imagine that it would have taken a steady hand and an extremely long time to paint and make. This is just one of the many artifacts you can look at and find out about during a visit to this museum.

Scene, what each group worked on.

1. The Visual Arts/ Theatre/ Comedy: This group found out about events at the Junction, the ADC theatre, the Corn Exchange and Kettles Yard.

2. Film and Animation/ Photography: This group looked at the photography work of Amy Lee Pledger, who is a photography student at Long Road. They also looked at the Arts picture house productions and Equinox Graphics.

3. Music/ Club Scene/ Dance: On the music/ club/ dance scene page we found out about the main music, club and dance events for the months of March, April and May, so that we could include Listings of the events. I did loads of research on the Junction events like the Fiver and wrote about the history and a particular Fiver Event that was happening in the month of April. I had so much information I had to choose what to include. My group also wrote about local band Violet Bones, and Takeover the Junction.

4. Crafts/ Fashion and Clothing: This group found out about Sooz Jewellery, Hairy Growler Jewellery, POG crafts pottery and Naturally Bohemian (for fashion and clothing). All local.

5. Television and Video/ Interactive Media: I contributed to this area by doing research on BigFoot Television Productions and wrote an article about my research which the group did more work on and made changes for the newspaper.

6. Radio and Audio/ Advertising: This group found out about local radio stations like Cur 135 (short for Cambridge University Radio), run by Cambridge University students. This station is run by Cambridge University students (including ARU students), and is aimed specifically at the students and staff. Other local radio stations include Heart radio, Star radio, Kiss and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Bazaar

The junction didn't list the event on the website

there was another event on the same night at another venue and the junction takeover which had been organised months before was the next day which a lot of people were already going to before Bazaar was even made

History of festivals

A festival is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community.

Among many religions, a feast is a set of celebrations in honour of God or gods. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable. However, the term "feast" has also entered common secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal. When used as in the meaning of a festival, most often refers to a religious festival rather than a film or art festival.

In the Christian liturgical calendar there are two principal feasts, properly known as the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas) and the Feast of the Resurrection, (Easter). In the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican liturgical calendars there are a great number of lesser feasts throughout the year commemorating saints, sacred events, doctrines, etc.

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, orholiday.

A rock festival, or a rock fest, is a large-scale outdoor rock music concert, featuring multiple acts, often spread out over several days. The first rock festivals were put on in the late 1960s and were important socio-cultural milestones. In the 1980s a minor resurgence of festivals occurred with charity as the goal.

Today, many rock festivals are annual events sponsored by major corporations. Besides rock, many feature multiple genres of music such as pop, dance, andelectronic. Some owners of radio stations produce radio festivals that only include bands of a specific style of rock (according to what the station wants to promote). The size of these events mean that large temporary infrastructures are installed, supplying amenities like water-based ablution facilities.

Fylers for Bazaar

Last Friday i went to the junction fiver to advertise and give out flyers for our event 'Bazaar' at the junction.

We made the flyers in the morning before the fiver in lesson by getting one of the posters we made and

I handed out around 100 leaflets to the fiver crowd and i think quite a few will come.

It was a week before the actual event so hopefully people will remember more than if i had gone to the junction a few weeks before to hand out flyers for it.

Independant Project

Review and Analysis

In the early stages of my project I tried to think of different ideas, but was really interested in working on something that would interest me, as I play in a band. This was the reason why I chose to produce a webpage to advertise a rehearsal and recording studio for young bands.

Although when I did research, I found that there were lots of rehearal or recording studios, I could not find any that were near the centre of Cambridge. This was one of the things that I tried to focus on as I think that location is important. Young people often cannot drive themselves to a recording or rehearsal space so I thought that it was important to have it near and with easy bus and train links. I also wanted to have parking nearby in case young people had a car, and so that they could transport their own musical instruments if they wanted to. I chose the end of Mill Road for this reason, and also wanted it to be near to places where you could buy food easily, as it usually takes all day to record songs, and young people like me get hungry.

I chose to have a combined rehearsal space that had a separate recording room, so that bands could have both facilities available. There were not many studios that offered this. One studio used the room for both, but I thought this was a waste, as when the room was used for recording, you would not be able to practice.

When designing the room, I also wanted to make sure that there were things to make the room more comfortable, like a nice big settee to relax on, as it can be very tiring rehearsing and recording. I chose a leather sofa as I thought this would be more practical to keep clean. I also wanted to make sure that there were toilets, and drink and small kitchen facilities so that young people do not get thirsty. I thought you could rehearse and record better work if you have had enough to eat and drink and had time to rest.

I tried to do some research on good quality recording equipment and microphones, as it would be important to be able to make good quality recordings to give the bands the best chance to promote their music.

I also looked at the kind of lettering I would use for my webpage, and really liked a collage to advertise oxfam. Colour was also important when I looked through magazines, and I noticed that a light background worked well with big bold brightly coloured lettering.

I think it is important to have lots of information on a website about the facilities, and tried to include this in my design. I would love to have a recording and rehearsal studio where the equipment is all available and where you can get spare guitar strings or drum heads if they break.

I got an idea from one website to create a logo, and although it was difficult to try and make a logo, I think it works, in terms of advertising and making all of the webpages link together.

Reviews were another idea that I got from looking at other people’s websites, but I did not think I could include them at the moment because it is meant to be a new website.

If I were to do more work on the website design, I would like to create more photo images of the facilities, and work on my style and colouring of lettering. At home I do not have photoshop, but I would have liked to use this program to improve the quality of my webpage design work.

Cambridge film festival

Cambridge Film Festival

About the Festival

First established in 1977, the Cambridge Film Festival has been committed to delivering high quality independent films to the widest possible audience. Bold and imaginative in its presentation of films, the Festival embraces the latest technology, while also showcasing its passion for the heritage of cinema. Since 2007, the Festival has been run by a registered charity, the Cambridge Film Trust, as the highlight of a year-round programme of events that aim to bring challenging and provocative cinema to Cambridge and the Eastern region. At the Festival we champion new methods of filmmaking and emerging platforms of distribution. Through our open submissions process, we support filmmakers from all across the globe as well as locally, providing a platform for new talents to showcase their work. Over the years we have selected titles by filmmakers who have gone on to achieve international acclaim, including a student short 'Larceny' from Batman director Christopher Nolan (1996) and the Oscar-winning 'Wasp' by Andrea Arnold (2006). In 2010, we're celebrating our 30th birthday and are planning a packed line-up that will commemorate this special occasion.

Studio 24 proudly supports Cambridge Film Festival along with Film Trust. 

For people who love films.

Festivals

LATITUDE

the festival Latitude covers acts from comedy to poetry to film and music and theatre.

http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx

The festival is being held from Thursday 15th to Sunday t

he 18th of July at Henhan Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, Suffolk.

Whats in: With headline acts each day with Florance and the machine, Belle and Sebastian and Vampire Weekend the target audience goes to more of the music fans of these kinds of bands, teenagers(or any age) and families looking for a good festival,  but i think the festivals audience appeals to anyone with any interest in music, comedy or theatre.

The festival is funded by The Word, Absolute Radio, Taborg, Gaymers Cyder, Pepsi Max and Viagogo.

The Cambridge Folk Festival.

 

Website: http://www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/

29th July - 1st August at Cherry Hinton Hall.

The target audience is folk lovers or music lovers. 

Seasick Steve, Dervish, the unthanks, Ezio, Pink martini are a few acts playing this years Folk Festival.

The Festival is organised by the Cambridge City Council and sponsored by The Co-op. 

Supporters of the festival are, Scottish Arts Council, EFDSS, Unison, Mojo, Greener Festival amongst others. 

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 

Download is the biggest Rock festival in the world, with the biggest names in Rock history playing over a three day period including Aerosmith, AC DC, Motorhead, Rage Against The Machine Wolfmother and many more. 

DOWNLOAD takes place on Friday the 11th June 2010

The festival is held at Donington Park, right next to East Midlands Airport Donington Park lies where the three counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire meet. . Download attracts anyone who has an interest in this genre of music (Rock). 

Download gets funding from many other music companies. KERRANG!, Bbc Radio 1, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and hmv. 

Scene unit update,

Today we have been designing posters to advertise 'Bazaar' at the junction which is the night we are putting on there. 

Record

I am about to start the unit Record.
For this unit i will make a video of 'How to do' something.
I am still unsure of what my final video is going to be.
I have thought of many things such as, 'How to make toast' 'How to make tea' 'How to tie a shoelace' 'How to tidy a room' and many more.

History
The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day and beyond. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century. Motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics.

In the silent era of film, marrying the image with synchronous sound was not possible for inventors and producers, since no practical method was devised until 1923. Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, movies were silent, although accompanied by live musicians and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist.

Film history from 1895 to 1906
The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry. The films themselves represent a movement from films consisting of one shot, completely made by one person with a few assistants, towards films several minutes long consisting of several shots, which were made by large companies in something like industrial conditions.

The first movie cameras were fastened directly to the head of their tripod or other support, with only the crudest kind of levelling devices provided, in the manner of the still-camera tripod heads of the period. The earliest movie cameras were thus effectively fixed during the course of the shot, and hence the first camera movements were the result of mounting a camera on a moving vehicle. The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains. Although listed under the general heading of “panoramas” in the sales catalogues of the time, those films shot straight forward from in front of a railway engine were usually specifically referred to as “phantom rides”.

One major new development in the early 21st century is the development of systems that make it much easier for regular people to write, shoot, edit and distribute their own movies without the large apparatus of the film industry.

Kettles Yard Review

Thw house was very old and seemed cosy, we were allowed to sit on all the furniture, there was a room for a toilet and a whole library upstairs.



This was my favorite piece of art at Kettles Yard. Although at the start i thought it looked like a TV that had no channels.

I examined it for a rather long time and grew to like it.

Yesterday we visited three different art gallerys, one of which was Kettles Yard.

Kettles Yard is a contemporary art museum.

Mostly students and tourists would visit this kind of gallery. Kettles Yard is different to other galleries as it is actually inside someone's house and is fairly relaxed.

Simon Bates interview on Youth takeover.

Nathaniel; What are your views on the Youth Takeover and do you think it will be an overall success? Simon; Great Idea, came from a group of young people that The Junction work with. Hopefully develop new audiences and getting more people involved in The Junction. The day is planned with big Artists. Young people see it as a young persons event because it has been organised by young people. Nathaniel; If the Youth Takeover is a success, do you think it will encourage regular workshops and events? Simon; It's the whole plan, working with a small amount of young people and hope to make it bigger. Maybe use it to recruit enough young people to run a weekend event next year with enough funding. Nathaniel; You mentioned having bands playing in the evening, how many bands are playing and do you not think having bands play.. It might spoil the theme of the event? Simon; Wanted to put an event where all young people can takeover the junction no matter what their Genre. And being the best value for money. Nathaniel; Do you think the Youth Takeover will encourage more venues to do the same? Simon; Hopes that other venues will be inspired by the Youth Takeover and could do something where Young people Takeover more than one place, i.e take over the CITY!
My views on the Interview today, I think me and Nathaneil received some key information from simon today that will help finish the Article. Also I feel that the answers go into depth, therefore we can have a whole page dedicated to youth takeover which will attract lots of young people to attend.

Youth Takeover at the junction

Youth to Takeover!

A group of Young Ambassadors from Cambridge have been granted 6.5k to fund a youth event this year at The Junction. 

They call it the Youth Takeover! There are workshops going on throughout the day with the biggest and best UK DJ’s. Shy FX is top of the bill.

Today i am going to the junction at 11 to interview Simon Bates about the youth takeover.

We're asking him the following questions while recording the interview.

1. What are your views on the youth takeover and do you think it will be a success?

2. If the youth takeover is a success will it encourage regular workshops and events?

3. You are having bands playing during the event, how many bands are playing and do you not think having bands playing will spoil the event?

Strange Place Club

Today i have started to research a new area in the Music, club scene and dance section.

i've been researching all about the 'Strange Place Club.' 

They put on gigs at venue's around Cambridge and other places in england such as hertfordshire. 

They book venue's such as the Portland Arms(pub in cambridge) The haymakers(another pub in cambridge) and the Junction in Cambridge. If they were to book the haymakers or the Portland Arms the headline act would usually be either an acoustic artist or a smaller up and coming band, but when they book the junction it's usually a more established band to headline.

They usually book an up and coming band to headline who would have a big following then get a couple of local bands to support who could get bring a large amount of people to come so the headliners can get more fans from the fans of the support band.

The local support bands are usually given out a number of tickets that they're expected to sell, for either the Portland Arms or Haymakers it would be around 50. Or if it's a bigger headline act and they book the junction they would be expected to sell 75.

I sent an email to their Facebook fan page and got a reply almost straight away which was efficient.

I asked them the following questions.

1. How did you start putting on bands at these kind of venues.

2. What are your favourite bands and artist that you have put on during the past.

3.What other area's do you put shows on.

 

He told me, him(Mark Kemp) and a freind started a promotion company for local bands only around the hertfordshire area, and overtime they started to book bigger and bigger acts and they got more people in the music industry to work for them. 

Mark Kemps personal favourite artists he has put on are, Foals, Dizzee Rascal and The Maccabees. 

He said they now cover the area's of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridge, Kent, Essex, Surrey, Oxford and Sussex.

I found all there myspace pages, they have a different page for each city, www.spclive.co.uk is thier website.

I have chosen not to write an article or review on this as i personally don't think it is local enough to cover. I originally thought it would be a good article but since researching it and finding out it covers so many other area's in England i have decided against it. 

Scene Unit Update

I sent an email to the manager of the junction asking how the Fiver was getting on and wether the police were taking away the license for it due to the trouble outside the Junction on Friday nights. 

He replied saying, the meeting was successful and the Fiver has the all clear to carry on, and by the tone of the email he seemed chuffed about it. He told me all the plans for the upcoming fivers and how he has already booked all the bands who are going to play so he can make them all busy nights at the Junction. 

 

Beginners Guide to the Junction

Fiver Newspaper article

These are flyers from fivers from two fivers in 2008. 

the fivers are very popular for students from around year 9 to year 11. He was telling me how he would get the bands who would bring the largest amount of people to play the fivers so if a band was made up of 5 people and they all went to different schools he would get them to play instead of a band who all went to the same school.

The fiver is a great opportunity for young local bands to play a good venue in front lots of people which gives them a great experience and gets them out in the local scene. 

When my old band got our first fiver we were only 13 and 14 so back then it was great just playing first, but now we're older and better we play much further up the bill and it's still always very busy and will be a shame if the fiver has to stop.

On the 2nd of April there is a big junction fiver that my band will be playing in, Kerrang, NME and Rocksound are reviewing the show. There will also be live shots of the crowd and the band in these magazines in the months to come! The music industry are also thriving on this night, there are like 70-80 guest listed names from nearly every record label imaginable! 

This could be an event to cover in the newspaper.

Junction Fiver

I have been researching the Junction fiver. I couldn't find any information on it on the Internet so i had to book a night to find out about it with Gary Brown(the manager of the junction and puts on all the fiver events) He told me all about the fiver and the history. He was very helpful and i met up with him straight away. 

He said the fiver started out on a Tuesday night with just a few local bands with an audience of just about thirty people.

After a few years of that he managed to change the Fiver to a Friday night at the junction which increased the amount of people going. He started getting more local bands to play(5 bands) to get more people to come. 

By 2008 he started getting bands from hertfordshire, bedfordshire, Ipswich and other places near by Cambridge who have a bigger fan base already to headline the gigs and getting younger bands from around the age of 13-16 to play first to give them a gigging experience at a good venue.

Between January and august in 2008 the fiver night was put on every week at the junction. Gary then changed that to once a month and that managed to get the attendance up a lot and lots of fivers have managed to sell out since. 

He was telling me how the fiver might have to be put back to a Tuesday night again as the fiver has become so popular and there have been many fights outside the junction, which don't have anything to do with the fiver itself but the police but there are some meetings being held and the police might be taking the Fivers licence away until they realise the fights are nothing to do with the fiver. He was then telling me how the other venue's such as Man on the moon are wanting to take the fiver name and do similar like gigs on a Friday night.

scene Unit update

Today i have started a different category in the scene unit for the newspaper. I've started section 3(Music, clubs scene and dance) which i am looking forward to researching as i already know a lot of music events that happen around the Cambridge area and people who are involved in putting on these events so i already know a lot of information on these events. 

Film Review

I admit i was looking forward to this movie, which was supposed to be released in 2008 yet didn't get released until summer of 2009. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in my opinion isn't as good as the other Harry Potter movies. It's definitely one of those films you can only see a couple of times. Seeing it more than once was just a bore, yarn including 2½-hour movie with no real action.
Although the film had some marvelous scene's it didn't live up to my expectations of what he film would be. I thought the ending was average and should have carried on until when it finishes in the book. The movie also misses quite a few scenes out from the book and the lack of action in the movie definitely did not grab my interest.
In real life Daniel and Tom Felton, who plays his archenemy Malfoy, are best friends.An astounding 15,000 girls tried out for the part of Luna Lovegood.
I recomend if you're a Harry Potter fan you watch this film, but it is not one to watch more than once.