Thursday 21st October

Today in Templemoor we had Mr. Gardner and we were going to make a website using Dreamweaver and Fireworks. First we were going to make "rolling" buttons, for which we needed to create one image of a button in what shape, couler and font we wanted, typing what we wanted to in inside it, then we created a duplicate image, but changed some of the graphicl aspects of it, such as the couler or font, or maby adding a glow. Then we put it into Dreamweaver and gave it the "Rolling Button" property, allowing it to change from one image to the other when a mouse is moved over it. After that we made a rolling image with it, so for mine I took an image off of a "vortex" off of the internet, put it into Fireworks, and created a duplicate, couler inverted version of it. Then we put it into Dreameaver, made it a "Rolling Image" and then it would chnage from its normal self to an oposite couler when a mouse is moved over it. For the second to last thing we created a banner for the page, for which I wrote "Creative Arts and Media" in a nice looking font style, and pulled various images of video reels or creative sculptures off of the internet and made their sides fade to make them fall into each other (or the background). We finished off with hyperlinking the botton to a second page, just to show we could, and because I had abit of time to spare I poped my banner on that one aswell, and added a little something of an image for a laugh.

Tuesday 19th October

Today in Brigsahw we began to think about and make some questionaires with Mr. Truscot in the music room for first lesson, this was so then we could hand them out and tailor make our video around the answers our audiance gave us. In the second lesson we were in the IT room with Mr. Romer, in wich we continued to make our time line of the different creative process done by the Art Gallery and Testement, and began to make one for the Theater to make sure we understand what they go through to create an albumor a production. After that it was form, and then brake.

After brake it was third lesson in the PE Classroom with Mrs. Woffinden, where we had a look at the brain storms we created at Offstage Choices and re-wrote them into our books to copy up onto here as evidence for Friday, and to generaly have a portable copy of what we created. In fourth we moved to the Drama room, still being with Mrs. Woffinden, and began to create brain storms about specific off-stage jobs in the theater, for which I created one on Marketing. We had to wright down about what we though someone would have to do in that job, so I wrote things like brain storming ideas, starting advertising campeigns, and planning events that advertise the performance. Then we had alook at where on the "heirarchy" that job is, and began to timeline the ideas that we had on the brainstorm in the orer that we thnk they would have to do them in. After the lesson, it was lunch.

After lunch we went to lesson five, which was back in the ICT room with Mr. Romer, where we began finishing up and polishing the process' to make them less bland, and more informative to make sure we get the best we can out of them.

Tuesday October 12th

4^th lesson

Today we were in the Drama room starting to set up the room ready for Jessica Farmer, a WYP education officer, to interview her on her job and the playhouse and for her to ask us what we want out of the Offstage Choices day, in which we will be learning about the jobs behind (or infront of, but not on) the stage, and to tell us what we were going to be doing.  We had a brief amount of time to look over our questions to make sure we knew what to ask her before she came in. She asked us general questions, like "Whats your name?" and "What theatrical stuff have you done recently?", to get to know us more and what sort of performing arts things we’ve done before. She then told us about what was going to happen throughout the day and what the theme of the day was going to be around, which was Aladdin and so I thought it could be cool.

After she’d explained about what we were going to do we began our interview, and some of the things we found out were:

Q. “How do you class a successful production?”

A. “We mainly class a successful production by critic review on the performance or by the audience’s reaction to it and ticket sales.”

Q. “What do you class as a failed production?”

A. “Productions never rely ‘fail’, and it’s very difficult to have that happen considering while some people may hate a performance, others will like it. And vice-versa.”

Q. “What are the benefits, for both West Yorkshire Playhouse and us, in days like Offstage Choices?”

A. “For West Yorkshire Playhouse the benefits of the day are that it encourages people into theatre more, and shows them the workings behind the production. For young people like your selves it lets you experience more and lets you know the workings, and gives and shows you the range of opportunities within a theatre.”

I found out a lot about the other creative aspects of theatre in this interview and can’t wait for the in depths delve into the offstage choices of theatre! After the interview we thanked her for coming and left for lunch.

Thursday 7th October

Today we began exploring musical digital media technology, through the use of Audacity. We mashed together a part of an audio book about Beowulf, with a narrators voice, music, and sound effects, which I think turned out rather well, and was extremely simple to use (After the help of the video walk-through, ofcorse!). After which we wrote up about what we did, to make sure we understood what we just did, and began to play about with Photoshop, making a normal picture of a random guy into something befitting what comes within this month- Halloween!

Tuesday 5th October

1st lesson in the music block, we learned how to conduct a meeting and saw part of a video clip that showed what not to do in a meeting so that we may conduct our own meeting for the video in the future. For the second half of the leson, same place, we began rehersing an assembly that was to be performd on the day (and the rest of the week for the Brigshawers). 2nd lesson in an IT room, we began mind-mapping ideas on what the video would contain and how we'd go about filming and performing it, for the inevatable filming of it in the weeks to come. 3rd lesson we were in the PE classroom, conducting an ill-prepared and disorganised meeting about planning questions for the the West Yorkshire Playhouse Educational Officers visit, which rely only started getting results into 4th lesson in the drama studio when we pretty much scrapped the seperate jobs that are ment to come in a meeting, allowing us to know what we want to know from the Educational Officer, who's main purpose for the visit is to know what we want to know from the Offstage Choices trip we will be attending in a week. The last part of the lesson was looking over the clips the Brigshawers got of Testement, a beat-boxing rapper that visited Brighshaw on Monday. Last lesson back in the IT room we finished up ideas for the video, made a questionaire to help with its creation and began a story board for it. From what we got, I'm looking forward to making this thing!

Thursday 30th September

Today we were with Miss Pawinski to enhanced our mind maps and mood boards, and created in-depth views to two chosen digital media professions for the explore part of this course.