Opening Evening

The BRIT school open evening was on Wednesday 26th November. It was such a fun evening. There were lots potential students walking around. We finished school at 1:10 then had a break until 3:30, which was when we started rehearsals, which finished at 4:30. We then had to meet in the studio for a warm up at 5:00 with Jodi and Andrea. Open evening didn't start until 5:30 ,but we already had a small audience at 5:15.  We got started and throughout the whole evening we got a chance to go through most of our dances. My group was the first small group to perform and I felt like it went really well. Overall I felt like the night was successful and helpful as it made us as a class work and perform a lot more. It gave us an idea of space as well as we usually perform in a bigger space, but performing in a smaller space then we will actually have helps out a lot.

Myself and Hannah are hopefully going to get the jumpers this week or next week. On Monday I'm going to take some head shots for the programme. Rhianna and Danielle are going to being designing the programme. Hopefully that can all be done by next week. We have also been told as homework to take some selfies as we are going to have them projected on the screen behind when the Glam dance is performed to show we are getting ready for a party.

Assessment and logo

On Thursday we had our assessment on our small groups pieces I was soo happy with how it went everyone said they really liked it we just need to change the ending. We had it be filmed for the assessment and also had it be filmed by some post 16 media students as they are going to be doing the lighting and anything that we want on the back or anything like that to make the show more real.  After the assessment we went through all the dance that we had already done and cleaned them. the show is really coming together and can't wait to see the finished product.

Assessment sheet:-

The logo changed this week as it was too animated, now we have the logo we just need to get the details for the back of the jumpers then all we have to do is see if iur design is possible then order. Hopefully this will be done by the end on November! 

The new logo:

Logo design

Me and Hannah stayed later after school on Friday to get the logo design, it was worth the wait and this is our design:

I think me and Hannah work well together as we never give up and we have the same sort of ideas,but also using our different ideas we put them into one. We were both determined to get this  logo as we stayed back many days to get it, we sorted out a meetings with Ben and also went up to media countless times to see what was happening with the logo and designs.

Half term is over....

First week back after half term and we continue with our production. The sponsorship had organised a cup cake sale, it wasn't the most organised sale but it still went ahead. They asked for others to help so me and Sammy went around the canteens and front of the reception, we sold everything we had which consisted of 3 packets of cakes and one tub of cookies; we managed to make a lot of money.

Me and Hannah have been trying to get this logo for weeks, we have been able to get a post 16 student to design the logo and to design our jumpers, unfortunately even with lots and lots of nagging day after day we still haven't got it. Ben (the post 16 student) has designed and finished everything,  He has emailed them over but it hasn't come through so we have worked on it throughout today and are trying to get it for tomorrow. Mr Collins has emailed him and as soon as Ben emails back it will be transferred into a folder. This will enable us to send the design to get the jumpers and will allow us to continue with everything else. Me and Hannah haven't stopped reminding him which I feel bad about, but we will get it eventually.

Monday we started a new dance with Jodi, it is about refugees having no choice but to leave home to go to the refugee camps. They want to leave because of war but they don't want to leave their homes, family and friends; they don't know how long they will be away from them or whether they will even see them again. 

Today we carried on with the same dance but got asked to bring in suitcases, it was a good challenge as I couldn't say that I've dance with a suitcase before! We labelled ourselves A,B, and C. A's did the solos about wanting to leave, B's were the ones that didn't want to leave and did a duet with C's who were the ones who wanted to compromise. It was a fun lesson and I learnt a lot. We then got into pairs and danced  in front of each other to get constructive criticism. My feed back was to use more elevation. There are still lots of improvements I can make, I will take the comments on board and  just keep working on these aspects.

We then spent 45 minutes working on our small group work. Unfortunately we were missing someone which was disappointing but we went over it without the music, worked out the counts and movement. We then performed it to the rest of the class which wasn't the best but now we know what we can work on.