Hi Emily

Very accurate description of the day`s work. Try to be much more reflective as we discussed together and include images to illustrate your text.

3/12/09

Today we had a cover teacher called Miss Madan. I foud it a bit boring beacuse we were basically doing the same thing as last lesson, all lesson :( .

We were writing up our ideas on the computer and putting our ideas together.

Our ideas were: Try before you buy- tasters of any kind of drink that is sold in Shakin' Moo's, but the tasters cost 20p each, so that people can try them but not take advantage and take loads and not buy a drink in the end which will cause money loss for the business. We think that 20p is a fair price rate because it is 10% of the nomal price for a medium size cup of milkshake, also we think it is a fair price as it isn't very expensive.

Happy hour- an hour when we sell large milkshakes for the same price as a medium($2.60). The happy hour will run from 3.00- 4.00 on Saturdays every week. We think that doing this will encourage more people to come and buy a milkshake, especially on the weekends. :)

An idea I had, was to get celeberaties to come to shakin' moo's to see if they like them and see if they would buy them, nad if they have positive views, then Shakin' moo's could get them to say what they like about the milkshakes, have pictures take of them drinking them, or even become a fan on facebook to show their support, or something like that.

Shakin's moo's main competition is shake away.

Shakin' moo's and shake away are quite alike in most ways.

Ways in which shakin' moo's can improve their buisness is buy:

1. Try and get a sponsor for Shakin' Moo's.

2. Have games on the website.

26/11/09

Today we worked at parkside. This morning we discussed what we would be doing during the day. In the morning we found out that we would be meeting the manager of 'Shakin' Moo's', and we discussed what sort of questions we are going to be asking him (Chris). We have been asked to produce a leaflet, slideshow or any other medium to promote 'Shakin' Moo's'. We had to ask Chris what to advertise; e.g. the product, a special offer... And what sort of medium would be best for advetrising 'Shakin' Moo's'; e.g a leaflet, poster, email campaign, website- facebook, news letter, slide show+ music, video advert or radio.

I worked in a group with Rebecca Purkis and Hannah Bicknell, and we chose to make a leaflet and do a special offer, which was to do a happy hour maybe a couple of times a month or 2months. We also came up with the idea of having tasters so people can "try before you buy." But the tasters arent free because otherwise people might take advantage and take loads and not end up buying a drink, which would cost quite alot and not make a profit for the buisness, so we made the tasters 20p each or maybe more in the future. We have decided to stay with the cowmoofalge and the colours (pink and blue) because they are good and suit the shop very well. :)





I cant think of anything else to say so... byeee xx XD

Hi Emily

This is good but a little confusing??? You should have created a new blog to record your work on the Campaign unit of work - please have a word with me if you are not sure.

25/11/09

In the morning we got into our groups and finnished off our catering leaflets, by adding pictures, changing the font of the writing to match the style of the leaflet.

In the afternoon we went out and took some pictures of things such as a bin, Mr Hind's car, and various othe objects.
After that we opened them up onto photoshop, to 'tweek' them up a little bit by taking away little bits of dirt, changin the tone and contrasts of the colours, darkening the edges and so on.

I took this picture because I liked all of the different colours used in it.

This is a picture of Mr Hind's car, which I am going to adjust later on.

Emily's CRaM Homework 22/10/09

Today we got split into 2 groups, I was put into a group to do Photography. We then got split up into little groups, and I got put with Jamie Walsh. Before break we looked through the yellow pages, and had 10 seconds to look for a plumbing service. After all of us had chosen one we had to say why we chose it e.g It was an eye catching advertisement because of the colours used/ it had lots of big, bold writing/ it got straight to hte point of what the plumbing service does. After break we had to come up with a name for our group, choose who was going to be group leader, and come up with a name for our catering service that we are going to be advertising. We haven't yet come up with a team name, but we have decided who will be the team leader, and that is Jamie, and our catering service is called 'Hungry Much?'.

After lunch we took pictures of an orange, and apple and a cup of tea. We had to use the techniques we have previously learnt in the lessons before. We went round the school looking for places to take the pictures, and we thought that the window sill would be a good place, because it has the light shining in into the picture, and into the camera. The light worked really well and even worked better when we used the flash on the camera. We also took a picture of the orange and the apple in a tree, which also worked really well. After we had taken all of the pictures we needed, we went inside and on the computers and downloaded the photos onto the computer. We then used photoshop to produce the catering design using the pictures taken.
On photoshop we adjusted the colours and tones in the picture that we are going to be using, we took out any smudges or dirt in the picture to sharpen it up a little.

Emily's CRaM homework 15/10/09

Today we went to the Fitzwilliam museum, where we looked at lots of pictures to see which ones used different techniques, e.g for Subjet/ Focal point I chose a picture called Gimcrack with John Pratt upon Newmarket Heath, by George Stubbs.

After lunch we went to a graveyard and took pictures, using the techniques we learnt in the previous lesson and whilst looking round the Fitzwilliam Museum.

These are just some of the pictures I took.

-Subject/focal point.

-Framing.

-Angle/point of view.

-FMB(Foreground, midground+ background)

-Contrast.

Mr D's omment

Good blogging, Emily. I like the detailed analysis.

Emily's CRaM homework 4/10/09

This session the group edited the vox-pops that the group filmed last week in town. My role was giving Hannah ideas how to put it together and which order things should go in.




My contribution today was basically giving Hannah advice. Personally, I think that we should have chosen a better subject to interview people on, and ask them more questions, because we didn't manage to film many people when we went out around town, and so therefore we didn't have many vox-pops to put together. We achieved to put together a good piece of filming together, with good music and good titles. We didn't manage to make a very long piece of film. We started to build up on ideas on how we can improve next time.




It was enjoyable to mess around with the music and the speed of the person speaking. We discovered that older women are better at being interviewed because they are more reliable at giving good answers, whereas most of the men that we filmed were immature and not giving many very good answers. I learned that the type of music that you have in your piece of film depends on the subject you are talking about e.g. you wouldn't have very dark and ominous music when talking about circuses and happy things. I have become better at taking sections of vox-pops and mixing them together and putting them in a good order. As a group, we found it quite hard but managed to do it eventually. The hardest part was coming up with the right sort of music to go with the piece of film. I was satisfying to find a good piece of music in the end. My stengths today were putting the clips and titles in order. I was less successful at putting the piece of music into the work.





In the future, we must spend more time on putting the clips together and a little bit less time on choosing the backgorund music, because that's what took up most of out time. We need to organise it out abit better next time. It's now importatnt that we focus on getting the work done roughly before putting in lots of detail into it. The next step would be to put more detail into it. As a result of today we managed to create a piece of work worth watching.

Mr D's comment

Really interesting post, Emily - thanks! Could you have included any images, though?

Emily's CRaM homework 24/9/09

This session, the group went out around town, interviewing people and asking them about cars and the consession. We chose to film mostly in the field opposite the parkside school, because there were lots of people there. We managed to film atleast three good vox-pops. Having done this we didn't film as many people we had hoped to, because lots of people were willing to answer the questions, but werent wanting to be filmed. My main contribution today was filming, because thats what I enjoy doing. We also managed to film two people who are quite strange and unusual, which mad our filming a bit more fun XD.

It was enjoyable to go out around town to film instead of just filming each other, because it gets boaring after a while. We descovered that we were best off filming in the area of grass infront of Parkside school, because there are many more people there to film. Whereas filmin at the end of the Grafton Center was not such a good idea because people were in a hurry to catch the bus all the time. I learned that not all people drive around Cambridge, and so we need a better question than just about cars and the recession.
I have become better at holdin the camera still and not zooming in and out when I am filming. As a group we found it quite hard, because me and Hannah don't get along with Michael T, and so therefore it was hard to comunicate with him. I found it hard to interview people because I don't really like talking to people who I don't know, but I have improved since we first started.
The hardest part was trying to find people who were ok with being filmed. It was satisfying to finally get people to be interviewed by us. My strengths today were definately fiming. I was less successful at interviewing people. We succeeded in finally getting atleast five good shots.

In the future we must come up with a better question and a better script. Personally I want to swap groups because I really don't get on well with Michael. I shall try to get better at interviewing people. The next step would be to interview more people. By the end of this course, I want to have been able to interview atleast 6 people properly and learn more about the cameras, and how to use them.

Emily's CRaM homework 22/9/09

Today we learnt about vox-popping.
The rules about filming are that: 1. You have to position the camera so that the person you are fiming's eyes, are in the top third of the camera. 2. Do NOT zoom when filming. 3. Always ask for their permission berfore filming. 4.Do NOT film moving vehicles. 5.Do NOT film from moving vehicles. 6. Do NOT run with the camera. 7. Do NOT attempt to film from heights.
When chooising backgrounds, locations and people to film, you have to think about is it backgound going to suit the subject that you are talking about, the location also has to suit the subject, but the most impotant ting is the person you are filming because some people can be very unpredictable about what they are going to do and say .e.g. drunk people because they have no controll over what they are doing, depending on how drunk they are.
When working as a team you have to make sure that you get along quite well with each other, make sure that you all know what you are doing.e.g. one person doing the sound, one person doing the filming and another person incharge of the wires.
When filming vox-pops you have to be careful not to zoom in and out when filming, get too much
of the background in the shot, if it is irrelevant to the subject you are talking about.

What is difficult about filming vox-pops well is that you have to make sure you have done several things right.e.g. positioned the camera so it is not at a tilt, or moving, or chopping the top of the person you are fiming's head. When I viewed the first attempts I noticed that when I was filming, I did a few things wrong such as zooming in and out whilst filming and bringing the microphone into view also whilst filming. When I went out again I mad sure that I had poitioned the camera before filming, and made sure that the mirophone and boom pole were well out of the way, and not seen whilst filming.

Emily's cram homework

Hi my name is Emily,
I like to watch mainly cartoons, soaps and music on T.V.
I like any sort of comedy films, cartoon films. But definately not horror films.
I like lots of different types of music, lots of old music and new music.
I don't like to read at all.
I like sims PC game.
I like to visit facebook, youtube and msn websites.

I have used cameras in a drama project, we filmed a short play and edited it on the computer.
I am good at art, I like sculpturing and design.

First day at cram

Today I worked with Michael T and Johnathon. We went out around the school and took shots of different parts of the school. I learnt how to put the camera on to the tripod, how to put up the tripod, what a white balance is and different things about the camera. We learnt about the safety of using the cameras and the environment we are in when we are using the cameras. We have also learnt how to focus the cameras.

Emily's cram blog

Hi my name is Emily.