Risk Assessment

There needs to be a risk assessment everytime we go out incase something happens to one of us.
The risk assessment has made a big difference to our performance as we had planned for last Thursday but instead we had another samba practice at the junction. We had told everyone, made posters etc to perform on Thursday. When we first got told it has been postponed a week the mood in the class wasn't very positive as we had done a lot to perform on Thursday but after another rehearsal i think turned out to be a very good thing and the mood is definitely better and even more positive because he rehearsal went so well. On wednesday when we found out it had been postponed a week we changed the posters and leaflets and facebook group to the actual date to this Thursday coming up.

Dress Rehearsal

Yesterday we had a dress rehearsal at the junction for our Samba band project, i thought it went well as we managed to speed up the pace of the rhythms a lot and it sounded a lot more together as a band. I felt a bit silly in the mask as it was too small for me and hard to see our so i took it off after while, but i think we all looked good in our cramba t-shirts and they were successful. If i could add something to our outfit it would be some face paint instead of masks that were too small for the boys. I think we still looked good without the masks and the dress rehearsal sounded much better than i thought it would.

I am pleased with my own contribution to the cramba performance. I think i have learnt the rhythms well and quickly. i think it helps that i already play drums so i learnt it quicker than others. 

Cramba Update

In the last few lessons i have been making the banner for our Samba band when we perform tomorrow to raise money for the Haiti earthquake.
The banner is made up of four sheets each about 22cm tall by 28 cm wide.
I also printed out logo's for Haiti, the Junction, our Cram course and Long Road.

Cramba Today

Today i've helped make the banner for our cramba band, been interviewed on how i feel the cramba band is going and my thoughts on how it will help haiti and finish my rough design on the back and front of the leaflet we will be using.

This is a picture of the back and front of the leaflet. 

Cramba leaflet

Today i’ve made a design for the leaflet for our samba band, i think it has to improve before it is printed out and i am waiting for the times to be confirmed to inform people the times we are playing. We think we will be performing around 2:30/3:00 on the 5th of february in the market square in Cambridge. 

samba

I helped create some logo ideas' for our samba band in the end we made one of my designs better, the logo went round the class for people to comment on to improve, we then went on photoshop to design it,and used it. In yesterdays lesson we discussed what could go wrong like people not turning up or finishing jobs and then talked about our plan for the week. In my group we created the name for our samba band, we decided to call our self  'Cramba'. In today's lesson i am going to create a leaflet for our samba band while the others finish off the poster and print it out.

 

samba video

I chose this video because it was the same sort of rhythem we were learning and they're all wearing hats with samba sort of colours like green and yellow. When we perform our samba peice at the junction we have to wear a uniform of some sort and hats like that could be a good idea.
The perfomance is done in what seems a street in the middle of quite a lot of people watching.
Half the men seem to be topless but the other half are all wearing the same t-shirt which is black with a yellow sign in the middle which might be the bands logo or something.
I think the video is just being hand filmed by a randomer in the street watching.
This video is very simular to my own experience of samba drumming, it uses some rhythems and stops that we have been using and they are using the same instruments to what we were using.

I understand how long it takes to play as a samba band. 

during our first couple of samba sessions at the junction with Blake, we practised just stamping our feet in a beat and keeping the time steady. Some of us couldn't do this.

We progressed really well after each practise we had at the junction. The learning was slow, but by the last couple of weeks we were really together and playing a lot faster and in time. 

This is my facebook group, i have 23 members but only know 19 of them, so 4 random people must have seen the group and joined on their own accord. I think if i had invited more people than more random people would join.

I got 12 people to sign my petition on campaign day, i only asked 12 people so it was a 100% success rate. I am quite pleased with my campaign so far but i know i haven't got enough people to sign my petition for anything to happen. I hope to send my petition of later today to orange and other phone companies in hope of a reply.

Reflexion on campaign day

i think my campaign went quite well, although it could of gone better. In the first lesson the printer was not working so i couldn't print off my posters to stick around the college which was a set back to my campaign for free unlimited calls. 

I did manage to print out a petition for my campaign for people to sign before the printer stopped working which was good. 

in the second lesson i managed to go round the college getting people aged 16-19 to sign my petition. It was snowing which was good as everyone was in the reflectory so i could go around getting people to sign it. I also managed to get a couple of photo's of random people signing my petition. I got 12 people to sign my petition which was the average amount for my class and i was quite proud of but could of got more.

Next time i would try get my campaign out there some more, put posters up and perhaps advertise my facebook group some more as only 25 people have joined so far. 

To follow up my campaign next week i am going to try get a few more people to sign my petition and send it to a mobile company.

 

Campaign day

On Wednesday we will be going around the College promoting our campaign. I've had quite a few idea's on how to do this but still not totally sure how it is going to work out. A few idea's we had today in lesson were to make 'stickers, badges, a leaflet, posters banners, wear your t-shirt, interview people, get people to sign your petition, promote your facebook group, make a video on how you're getting on with your promoting and for my free unlimited calls to perhaps make a big phone out of cardboard.'

In the first lesson on Wednesday i'm going to
*Make my petition for people around the college to sign
*print out the posters i designed to put up round the college


In the second lesson we're going to go around the college promoting our campaign. I'm going to be putting up my posters and asking people to sign my petition while taking a few photo's for proof.

In the third lesson i will be doing viagly the same thing.

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?

What I did today?

Today we had someone who worked for the O2 come in to talk to us about Campaigns and Communications. She provides idea's for brands and campaigns, she gave us a talk about how to get the campaign across such as using posters and leaflets. She was telling us how brands such at O2 copyright their logo so no one else can use it.
She then showed us the Royal Navy's logo and how they change the colour of it and therefor it is less memorable for people.
We then started a campaign of our own. We thought that if doctors spend more time with their patients the patients would be happier because they would feel the doctor cares more about the problem. our poster said 'Healthy Patient, Healthy Hospital' then below it said 'Because we care' which i think added a good touch to our poster. Dispite this i don't think our poster was as good as it could be as we only had a limited time to make it(5minutes). If we were going to make one again i would have made the poster a bit more colourful and spent more time on it.

This has been my first week on the Media Studies course, during which I have begun to set up blogs, drawn up three different ideas for campaigns that would be suitable for 16 - 19 year olds, carried out research in the class to find out which campaign was the favourite, carried out research for my T shirt design, designed my T-shirt, printed and cut out the stencil and printed it. I have learnt a lot. The photo shoot on Friday meant that everyone has a photo of the T shirt they have designed, showing their campaign. The individual pictures were taken against an old graffiti wall which I think created a good background. The group photo shows the variety of T shirt and campaign designs that we have all made. After the photo shoot the photos were put on flicker so we could all see them and give each other feedback. A few people said that they liked the graffiti background in the individual photos because it helped to create an atmosphere.

This week is the first time that I have used a blog and it has taken me a little while to get used how it works. I was a bit frustrated this weekend because I had written a blog but did not save it because I had not completed what I wanted to say. My work was lost when someone turned off the computer. In the future I will post my blogs so that they are saved, and leave a note to say they are not yet complete if need be.

In order to design my T shirt I have begun to learn how to use some of the programmes on an Apple computer such as photoshop. I had to try and work out what to do on my own which was quite fun as well as frustrating because I got things wrong.

I enjoyed sketching my three campaign ideas on paper, and found myself thinking of other campaign ideas that I could have used whilst sketching. My final printed T shirt looks the same as my original sketch design and I am pleased with how it looks.

T-shirt printing

I started to design my final stencil for my t-shirt, on photoshop. I had never used photoshop before so i learnt how to use this softwere which was very usefull.
I first wrote 'Free Unlimited Calls' with each word having a differen't 'layer' so each word could be edited.
I had to find a simple image of a phone on google because i was having dificulty drawing one on photoshop so i could import it and print off my stencil. Using an acetate sheet my design was printed out and i had to cut out the lettering with a craft knife which took quite a lot of time.
It was difficult to cut accurately particulary around the smaller letters.
If i was printing it again i would choose larger letters with a more simple font design.
The next lesson i printed my stencil onto the blank t-shirt. I had to put a piece of cardboard inside the t-shirt so the paint didn't go through to the back. Using my design colours i painted over the stencil onto the t-shirt.
If I had more time to design my T-Shirt i would of added a larger picture of a phone to make the T-shirt stand out more but i think my T-shirt worked quite well.

Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist from Bristol, his real name is hidden from the media so he calls himself Banksy.

I think this picture is very clever. The way that Banksy has drawn a boat seemingly on a background which looks like it could be another boat gives a good effect.
I think Banksy's art is very clever and original.
The person in the boat looks like a skeleton because of the shade of white he used.
It's not something you'd regularly come across which i like.

T-shirt design idea's

Today i've made my three t-shirt designs, i decided to use my 'free unlimited calls design as the one i will make into a t-shirt because it was the most popular campaign i had when i went around the class asking people what campaign they liked best of mine with 9 votes. The other two campaigns 'Longer sleepins' and 'making it easier for young people to get better jobs' only got three votes each.

Three Campaigns

Something that will improve your life?

The first campaign i created was to have longer sleep-ins. This would make my life better because i would be more awake to enjoy the day. I think younger people (aged 16-19) need more sleep to be more effective in their work.


Something that will improve other peoples lives?

The second campaign that i created was to make it easier for young people to get more interesting jobs with better pay. Perhaps by increasing the minimum wage by a few pounds and creating more diverse job opportunities perhaps so they can try out new kinds of work to know what they like doing. I think this will appeal to people aged 16-19 because most people around that age want a job where they get a good amount of money.


Something that will make someone smile?

The third and final campaign that I created was to give people free unlimited calls.When I went around my class asking people to choose their favourite from my three campaign ideas,this was the most popular. I think it has a strong appeal for 16-19 year old's as people around that age always have their phones on them and can waste so much money using them.



All three campaigns are suitable for 16 to 19 year olds because the need for more sleep, and more money are common to all young people. Money was a common link in the 2nd and 3rd campaign, the 2nd one in terms of earning it more readily and in a way that is interesting, and the 3rd one by saving money with free phonecalls. A lot of other young people will have pay as you go phones because they do not have a regular income for a contract phone. These constantly need topping up with credit. Also, the contract phones usually have a set number of minutes for calls, and if you exceed this number the bill at the end of the month is often very high. I think the idea of free calls was the most popular because most students have experienced difficulties in some way paying for their phone calls. My second idea about job availability with better rates of pay, may have only appealed to those who were looking for work. A lot of students may already have jobs, and it is therefore not so relevant for them. I'm not sure why there were less votes for longer lie-ins. Perhaps the other people in the class do not find it as difficult to get up in the morning, but it is more likely that the free phone call idea was more attractive.

Analysis of two designs from t-shirt websites

I chose this T-shirt because i find it funny, i love Bob Marley's music but i like the way they make him animated like the guy from Family guy on this T-shirt.
I wouldn't wear it myself as I'm not too keen on the background colour(black)but i like how the colour fades from red to green on his face, i think this is a good effect. I like the fact it’s different.



I chose this T-shirt because it’s something I would wear and Rage Against the Machine are one of my favourite bands. i like how the American flag has been put upside down. I think the price is a bit too much for it at £17.49.

T-Shirt

T-shirts were originally worn as under tops, but as time went on the T-shirt got worn more frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body.

T-shirts have many uses and can be created in a large variety of ways, they can include a huge range of colors, size's and style's. A T-shirt is usually button less, collarless, and pocket less, with a round neck and short sleeves.

In the early twentieth century, the t-shirt became very popular in America. Now in the twenty first century the t-shirt is known and warn worldwide.

The T-shirt was easily fitted, easily cleaned, and inexpensive, and for this reason, it became the shirt of choice for young boys (perhaps more the choice of their mothers than of the boys themselves).