Cramba

My involvement for the cramba preparation is designing t-shirts fro our costumes i designed a design however i designed it but due to lack of funds we are going with another design that i have also created and put on flickr.

Samba in cambridge comparison between 2 videos

The first video is the Arco iris samba.

the performance in this video is really god the way that the leader keeps the band together is really good and the sound produced is really good as well i like the rhytm and how the each different instrument adds its own sound.
There isnt a lot of choreography within this video they are just doing there own thing to be honest even thought you can see they really are getting into it and moving there feet to the beat this also helps them keep in tune with everyone else.
Costumes, the cosumes in this video are all the same they have a t-shirt or hoodie with the same logo on it so they look like a band.
There is no specific lighting in this video as its outside.

The second video is called Thudbox - Bal a

The performance on this video is really god they work really well as a band and the sound is really unique, the way they perform on stage is really quite intriguing as there are few people on stage but still together they make sch a great sound with all te variety of instruments.
The choreography in this video is very freestyle as they all seem to be doing there own thing however there s some ssort of dace going on.
They are all in white not from head to toe they just have like white tops and black trousers or some sort of arrangment of black and white, which looks effectve as they all still look the same.
Lighting well there are definitely spotlight on them and it looks like there could be strobe lighting as well as there white tops look quite blue.

The band identity in both groups is the fact that they wear the same well not in thudbox but they have the same colours on and in arco iris samba they all are wearing the same t-shirt.

Both bands interact with each other by either looking at each other smiling or usually dancing together whilst playing either the same instrument or different.

In both thudbox and arco they claps there hands to encourage the audience as this then gets them to clap alng and really gets the energy going for the band.

Well thudbox were the only band who performed on stage, its more of a line they have everyone who lays the same instument next to each other, they also have two lnes its like one behind the other but the big drums are at the back and the smaller instruments at the front.

Th light effects really give it something as it makes the stage light up and shine on who it should, i wouldnt say there are many props in either band but if there were props it would really add to it i think.

homework for weekend of the 15th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxh1XTtg7c

i choose this video becasue i think it sounds really good and looks like the sort of samba band that has formed through the communtiy. The performance looks quite lively they all look like they are enjoying it and also all in time. They are all wearng the same tshirts so it looks like they are all together however they are all different colours which give it some colour to be honest. It has been filmed outside at a festival in lanarkshire. this is very much like my own experience of samba as its a small band and they all look as if they are doing it because they enjoy and i enjoy it and it just looks lke what we have been doing at the junction.

Chart of girls and boys

This is a graph showing how many girls and boys i got to sign my petition and then how many girls and boys have joined my facebook group.

The petition was an equal split of girls and boys however facebook was 210 girls to 114 boys so it shows that more girls are interested but there are boys out there who would like the discount as well.

Comparison of facebook and petition

When it came to the actual day of campaigning i didn't manage to get as many signatures as i would have liked but i think if i had maybe made it aware that i was petitioning i would have got a lot more interest however you can see people are interested in my campaign by the amount of people on my facebook group so if you were to put the 2 number together it would make 340 which is quite a good number of people.

I think its easier to get interest over facebook, however if you speak to someone face to face then they will be able to understand your campaign more clearly.

Facebook update on campaign

This is another screenshot of my facebook group for my campaign, as you can see people have wrote on my wall and i have also now got 324 member however there is still people who haven't actually replied yet so I'm hoping to have more soon.

Petition picture

   

Here is a picture of my petition that i got people to sign for my campaign. There are about 16 signatures on it.

reflection on campaign day

my plan changed because i thought there would be a lot  of people in town but due to weather circumstances there was not really anyone around but i did get a few signatures in the refectory at break time. 

it was quite successful as i got 14 signatures and this was then the class average however i feel that  could have done a lot more and maybe would have ben able to get a few more signatures if i have put myself out there a bit more.

i definitely would change location and not be as embarrassed to go up to people and talk to them as i think that was probably my biggest downfall.

next week i will probably get more signatures so that i ma able to maybe talk to NUS about upping the discount for the cards and ask if it can be opened to a wider variety of shops so there is more to choose from for other people as i think this would benefit people i also think that NUS needs to be advertised more so that students use it. 

planning for campaign day

Today we are campaigning for our campaigns we have been giving options on location for example we can either campaign in college or we can go to town and campaign, i have choose to go to town as i feel this will benefit my campaign as it is to do with shops so i can go into shops and see if they would be willing to back my campaign i can also get students to sign my petition which would really help. i will be talking to people about what im trying to do and how it will help them.

the methods im planning on using aren't anything extreme just the simple polite technique i wont  pester people as they usually tell you to go away.

i would like to get as many people as i can to sign my petition and possibly speak to some people about my campaign like an interview style.