Practitioner interview

I have chosen a practitioner within the section of film making he is a local man from cambridge who makes his own films that have been shown at film festivals. He specializes in documentaries and short promotional films. 

The questions that i have asked him are :-

1. How did you get into your profession?

2. What sort of qualifications would you need?

3. Have you done anything that would have been shown in the cinema?

http://www.oggitomic.com

First article for scene

This is my first article that i did for our scene magazine.

Research on Film, Animation & photography

I am going to research the cambridge picture house for my article in this section as its a local business in cambridge, which has more than one purpose within the area topic.

The cambridge arts picture house, shows only a few films each day as its not like your normal cinema. There are also clubs and groups that you can join as well, the latest one for students is slackers club which is produced by E4 and its for students. Its a free club and you also get into the picture house for free, there's only certain movies showing, however there is only one movie showing of it. 

There also things like opera live via satellite from new york being played and different things like that, that you would never see at a normal cinema.  

Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge

38-39 St Andrew's Street

Cambridge

CB2 3AR

Box Office Number: 0871 704 2050

email: cambridge@picturehouses.co.uk

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Arts_Picturehouse_Cambridge/

The picture house isn't really for educational things however they work along side a company which do educational things to encourage students to get more into film education. They still are based at the picture house though.

They organise lots of projects for school to do with film and animation.

http://www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org/projects.html

fitzwilliam artifact

Faience tiles Egyptian,

Old Kingdom, 

Dynasty 3

(reign of Djoser: 2667-2648 BC)

The reason for picking this piece was because it stood out and was quite different as its colourful and i like the different blues of the tiles. 

Progress on scene

What have you done so far?

So far we have been put into one group researched a practitioner or small company within that group. I choose crafts, fashion & clothing. we found a woman called kari-helene who owns a a little company in cambridge where she makes all her won clothes from alpaca wool. from this i have made an article all about the company.

How do you feel its gone?

Its gone quite well so far the article was quite easy to write but the practitioner was quite hard to find.

What could you do to improve?

I could go and actually interview the woman and find out how she got into it and the background behind it as well. Also maybe display clothing from her range or organise a fashion show maybe. 

Reflection on junction yesterday (11/03)

Yesterday we went to the junction to apparently interview the practitioners there however that never happened and it turned out to be a pointless visit as we ended up getting interviewed for jobs within in the junction, but most of us had been through the interviewing stage as we have jobs. We then got to ask a few questions but it was more is there anything you want to say to them, so thats wasn't really what we went there for. We would have been off at college.

Junction research

In the junction there are 3 different performance areas.

J1 - This is where most of the club nights take place as it hold up to 1050 people.

J2 - Is used for a variety of things ranging from comedy to gigs and also theatre.

J3 - This is has sprung floor so that artist can rehearse, it also has workshops take place in it as well.

                        Upstairs of J1                                      This is J2

    

This J3

The target audience of the junction is very varied because it has different performances for different kinds of people for example there are things for children, for teenagers young adults from 18 onwards then for adults and O.A.P.s and also families. The sorts of events would be like theatre performances for children and families, then you have club nights for the 18+, there are fiver nights which are for teenagers, then there are like gigs and things for adults.

The junction is different to the corn exchange and places like that because the junction offers workshops and educational things which the others don't however when it comes to performances there are quite a few similar ones, The junction do a thing called a fiver night which is very different to what the others do as well.

   

Junction

Tomorrow we are going to be going to the junction to talk to people at the junction in different career roles for example like lighting, music and so on.

In our groups we must come up with questions to ask the staff at the junction. 

we must include the following

*Job role and responsibilities 

*Job satisfaction

*Qualifications

*Training (to be able to do the job and continue - continues professional development)

My three questions will be as followed

1. What would your daily activities involve?

2. What did you need to get into your job qualification wise?

3. Would you be able to training in your career?

Scene logo

Today we have been designing logo's for our newspaper we had to sketch it first then do it in photoshop afterwards, i didn't really sketch as i didn't know what to so i got idea off the internet.

We then uploaded it to flickr and for homework we have to choose 3 logo's which we like and explain why and then the one with the most votes will be the logo for our newspaper.

This is my logo which i designed.

Research on crafts and fashion clothing

http://www.purlalpacadesigns.com/default.asp

The above website is a manmade online shop where you can buy collection items or have something made to order, there are also areas in which you can buy the material and make it yourself.

The address of the shop

Purl Alpaca Designs      
6 Regatta Court         
Oyster Row
Cambridge
CB5 8NS 

Scene session 3: Group 4

Today we decided the groups in which everyone is going to put in, there is 6 different groups which people are in there are 3 people to each group apart from one group which does have 4.

My group got given Crafts, Fashion & Clothing, my group consists of jasmine & christian. 

We have got to research our chosen groups and then also put them on to little post it notes, which will then be put on to a board with all the other groups post it notes.

Reflection on Scene (session 2)

Tuesdays lesson we came up with ideas for our 14 page newspaper spread.

Target audience?
we thought that everyone would be a good target audience, for example like tourists, families, adults then also young people like teenagers.

Our initial ideas were that it would be birhg and bold, that we would have a ticket discount page that you could cut out. Also we though of having a huge fold out map in the centre fold pages. Also monthly happenings

initial research

today we started our new unit called scene its all about looking to find out what's going on in and around cambridge we will then make a newspaper type thing full of all the information but there will be a variety of things ranging from music to art and also fashion and clubs.

The junction holds events like comedy acts, dance, music and some theatre pieces. the link is below.

http://www.junction.co.uk/

www.familiesincambridgeshire.co.uk/arts-craft-market-i602705.html

the link above is quite good for different things like arts & craft markets and arty type places.

http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/portal/