Tuesday 28th September

For the first 3 lessons we went into Leeds City Center with Mr. Truscot and took pictures/video of the area, and went into the Leeds Art Gallery to take a short look around and hold an interview with Amanda, Leeds Art Gallery's educational officer, for the video. Here is a list of what we asked her for the interview, and her answers:

1.What different audiences do you appeal to?
The art gallery has a very varied audience range: people out on a day trip with the family; school trips out to learn; people using toilets or the cafe and people who have organized meetings there. Overall the art gallery has a very wide audience
How do you go about pleasing them?
They have to appear to different audiences at different times as not everyone likes everything. so different types of events and exhibitions to look after different people.
What data do you hold on the audience and how is it collected?
The data bieng held is mainly political and is highly confidential so not to be used wrongly. also if people want there is a mailing list people can sighn up to. and ofcourse survays for people to fill in when they leave.
2.How has new technology influenced your methods of work in the art gallery?
Everything has become faster due to the internet mainly as they can use the email websites despite it bieng very expensive. It is always to be in with the new soft ware as its always getting more and more advansed so the art gallery needs to be more prepared
Have you introduced new ways of advertisig in recent years, for example facebook and twitter sites?
The art galley does have a twitter site however there are much better methods of advertising. surprizingly the most effective is word of mouth like people telling people. ofcourse money is a massive issue in advertising.
3.How do you connect to the different community's within leeds and beyond?
The art gallery was once even internationaly connected but sadly this went wrong due to money issues. They have a good connection with school with special events and workshops.
The gallery is free to enter, how do you fund the gallerys projects?
Its funded by the council mostly to pay employee wages and fund any exhabitions. Also there is a donation box a cafe and a gift shop which also help.
4. What creative procces is involved in creating an exhabition?
Everyone in the art gallery is very creative and as a group we are able to pool together some good ideas.
How do you decide the space to use for you exhibitions?
It is simple as the bigger more popular pieces of art go in the big rooms and the smaller in the smaller rooms. But if there is a piece that is very 'soft' it can be put intoa more darker and calmer room.
5.What merchandise do you have and how do you promote it?
there is a gift shop full of things that will sell they are usualy themed around art in the gallery. The gift shop its self should be promoted more as it could be used allot more but is wasted. Also the rooms can be used for meetings and therefore seen.
6.Do you have an age limit for your workshops?
there is no age limit for us but in school there is an age limit of 5-18. but to be fair there is a workshop for under 5's and there parents.
Do you charge? How is it funded?
All workshops are free but for schools its 50 pounds a day.
7.How do you know when an exhabition is a succes?
when the gallery gets allot of people in for an exhabition it gives a good vibe and also when we get a good review.
What do you class as a failed exhabition?
If even we think the exhabition. If people seem uninterested or complain which we will find out in our comment box where people give reviews.

When we arrived back at Brigshaw we had 4th lesson with Mrs Woffinden were we talked abit about narration, and I printed off a post from this blog (which should of been done for home work). 5th lesson with Mr. Romer we continued to edit the introduction to the diploma group video to get better at video editing.

Thursday 23rd September

Through 1st and second lesson with Miss Pawinski I made a mind map and two mood boards about different Digital Media jobs (Of which I made a mind map for Games Design and Graphic Design) to gain a better understanding of what it is.

Tuesday 21st September

In 1st lesson I researched up on Leeds Art Gallery to attempt to find out more about the place and to better understand what I should ask questions on. In 2nd I made a mind map to understand what I'll need to ask at the Leeds Art Gallery. In 3rd lesson we learned about narration, watching clips of David Attenbourough and Come Dine With Me to see how they do it, and to see what we need to make sure we do when narrating. In 4th we then had a look at different types of narrative on a hand out that listed an abundance of different narrative techniques, then we split into two groups and each group made there own narration aimed at: Young People, Parents and Teachers. This was a fun way to think about how we can use our voice to influence the video. In 5th lesson I started to edit together a video to introduce the Diploma group to get to grips with the video editing software.

Thursday 16th September

For the first lesson we learned about camera angles and shot types, and went around the school taking pictures on the shiny new cameras to see the best ways to use those angles. In the second lesson we put all the pictures on the computers and chose the best 6, which we then wrote about and explained why we liked them. If we finished that quickly, we got to photo shop them as well. Then we chose the best picture of the 6, and explained to the rest of the class why it was the best of them. My best 6 (The best of the bet being the first one) are below:

Tuesday September 14th

1^st lesson was more research into Creative Leeds, adding the final polish to it. 2^nd lesson we were deciding what venues and events we’d like to attend and interview people on and begging to come to grips with the video editing software which we will be making our final film on, which was cool. 3^rd and 4^th was learning interview techniques by the example of Jonathan Ross and a Grammy news reporter, reviewing our interviews and listing what we did good/bad and what to improve and begging to record our more refined interviews, which none of us were rely able to record in that lesson. 5^th we finished recording the interviews, and began editing them to improve their quality, which was enjoyable.

Thursday September 9th

1st lesson I toured the Brishawer students around the school, whcih they thought was huge and rather imprssive in its newness, and then we delved into a relaxed lesson thinking of what media rely is, which was easy as there were posts all around the classroom to tell us and I’d been doing Media before, so then we atleast have a better understanding of, well, Media. 2^nd lesson Mr. Gardener familiarized the Brigshawer students with the school system, and had an enjoyable lesson messing about with tools in Photoshop to learn how to stuff with it, but my picture didn’t quite turn out how I wanted with the body and the area around it being mishapen and obviously edited.

Tuesday September 7th

First lesson with Mr. Truscot I was given a tour around Brigshaw High School to better familiarise myself with the school and my peers. Through 2^nd lesson with Mr Romer we researched into Creative Leeds, finding events and venues which tie in with the art forms to better map out were we wanted to go, which with the blocked/never seen sites made it harder to find things and made less input from me. 3^rd and 4^th lesson with Mrs Woffinden we learned interview techniques and more about each other as peers in a fun practical way, and then record the interviews on flip cameras. In 5^th lesson we were with Mr. Romer again, and we researched more into Creative Leeds, and found more venues to go to which was slightly easier as by the time “some” of the sites had been approved.