Video Journals, How To Make Them

Questions to ask
- How can I make it creative?
- Use of narrative arc? (narration)
- Use of format - which format?

What do you need?
- Video or digital camera
- Subject
- Setting
- Format
- Planning
- Creativity

What does a producer do?
- Makes ideas happen
- Responsible for how things are edited
- Paper work - health and safety etc.

What does a director do?
- Organises shoots - how do they look?
- Does everything look good?
- Checks everything is ok with shoots

What should an interview be?
- Challenging
- Revealing
- Evocative
- Provocative
- Emotional
- Engaging

Who do you need?
- Camera man
- Producer (interviewer)
- Interviewee

Posters

This is my poster for the 6th Formers, listing some reasons why they should volunteer. The pictures are relevant to the cause, and the puppy picture is eye-catching.

This is my poster for the teachers; it's a little bit more formal, but still has relevant colours and pictures.



Browick Road Pictures

Below are some pictures that were taken at the Theatre In Education workshop at Browick Road teo weeks ago. Each picture has a caption underneath so you can see exactly what is happening:

Playing a game with the Yr2 class

Talking to the children in individual groups

Discussing ideas...

Lauren and Jasmine talking to the children in their group



Talking to the Yr2 group




The children showing their performances to the rest of the group

Be Able To Monior The Preparation Of a Campaign

Throughout the process of planning and conducting our Campaign we had to regularly monitor our progress and examine our achievements and aims.

One of our was to examine where we had succeeded and where we didn't succeed in our Campaign. I think we succeeded in our performances and presentations to the pupils at Browick Road, but we didn't succeed in the advertisement and promotion of our Campaign. I think this happened because we did not spread the awareness of our Campaigns  throughout the school enough.  In my opinion, we could of spread the awareness of our campaign more by sending letters home to the students' parents and spreading the news around the school. We also produced questionnaires for the pupils to answer.

Overall, I've learnt how to write letters in a formal way to other people, perform presentations to big groups of people, young or old, I've also found that I'm becoming more confident in being me. And i wish to use all of these skills to future use.

Be Able to Conduct a Campaign

Once we formulated our Campaign, we needed to put it into action. We organised our resources, for example our posters and leaflets, and put them up in varying different places around the school. We contacted Browick Road by writing them a letter saying if it was agreed that our group were coming to visit them on the 30th of November. We also sent letters to our Charity shop telling them what the progress of our Campaign was.

Be Able To Prepare a Campaign

For our campaign our main target audience was children and teenagers our own age. I think this would be the best target audience to choose as if teenagers donate their unwanted items, other teenagers would like it, and think of buying it. Where as if your target audience is the older generation, younger people wouldn't take any interest in buying from charity shops. We advertised and promoted our Campaign by putting posters up around the school, and handing out leaflets in the form registers. We also sent a letter to all the parents of the pupils at Browick Road Primary School, so that they would bring in their unwanted items when we visited their school. At the end of our Campaign, we measured our success by collecting our items that other people had donated, but unfortunately in our case we didn't collect any, as no one had donated anything to our group.

Letter To Charity Shop

Wymondham High School

Folly Road

Wymondham

Norfolk

NR18 0QT
Tuesday 14th December 2010

Children’s Society

30 Market Street

Wymondham

Norfolk

NR18 0BB

Dear Sir/Miss,

                       I am writing on behalf of the Creative and Media group from Wymondham High School, that visited you on the 5^th of October. You asked us to collect more toys and to do this we launched a campaign and hoped to receive donations. We visited Browick Road Primary School and performed some presentations about charity, we asked them to bring in their unwanted toys, we also set up our own collection service, for the students and teachers to bring in their unwanted items. Unfortunately, due to the dates of our campaign, restricted time and not enough awareness, we have failed to get any donations to help your charity. We have though raised awareness so hopefully you will receive more donations from now on.

Yours faithfully,

Charlotte Godolphin