Evaluation

How successful do you think your final production is?

I think my project is moderately successful as I had many problems to overcome. I had to change my idea many times because of communication difficulties with the school I was going to work with; I think I worked well with what I had. I also think I followed the brief well and I tried to get the message across as well as I could in my film. I think I worked well under the pressure and as my partner wasn’t local; however, I think I could have improved in a few areas as I rushed part of it such as the film editing process, which was difficult for me as I hadn’t used the software in over a year and wasn’t that confident with it. Overall I think It went well despite all of the problems I faced and I think my partner was moderately happy with it.

What did your partner think about the production?

My Partner was John Pendlington From the children’s scrap store and I think he was quite pleased with it overall. This is what he had to say…”We loved the "Ready, Steady, Cook” concept using scrap materials presented to three creative chefs and the BBC “Vision On” type music. It is very engaging and watchable, and gets the message across by drawing on scrap items a novel use of colour plastic and food packaging. Will help companies rethink about their waste materials.” I think John is pleased with this as he mentions that it will help companies rethink about their waste materials, which was the point of the video entirely.

How well did you Interact with your partner?

We met around 3 times during the process as they’re based in Bristol so it was difficult. However, We communicated via email whenever we wanted to check up on something or get feedback on ideas. I think I interacted well with my partner as there were no communication problems and whenever I wasn’t sure with something I just had to email him to make sure my project would be suitable and was following the brief.

What practical problems did you face during the process?

One of the only practical problems during my project was communication. Originally I was going to work with a primary school and work with the children, however, we kept emailing them and they must have been very busy as they never got back to us in time for us to do our project. I think another practical problem was that we had to get scrap from the scrap store to the college. We wanted to use the college mini bus but we couldn’t find someone to drive it for a long time, which delayed us for quite a while. Eventually though we found someone and were able to collect our scrap.

How did you overcome these problems?

To overcome the lack of communication problem I improvised and thought instead of using the children in my film I could just use students from my course. They were all willing to help and created things from the scrap materials just like the children would have, so my problem was resolved.

Considering your partner’s feedback: How would you do things differently next time?

If I were to do it again considering my partners feed back I would probably spend longer on editing my film as I think my material was good but I could have spent longer smoothing out my film on final cut pro

What new skills did you learn (Practical and Business skills)?

I learned a lot of practical business skills such as better communication skills and how to write up and hold meetings in the correct form.

What things should be considered when working with an external partner?

You should think about what they want from you to help their business and try to work as closely to the brief given as you can. You also have to think about how far away you are from your partner as it helps to be closer and have more regular meetings.

Compare your work to a similar campaign. What have you done particularly well? What have you missed? Etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8BwXp7ICs0&feature=related

This is the video that I’m comparing my work to; they use the same slogan as the scrap store, which is reduce, reuse, recycle. I think my video is very different from this one, as they have used an animated cartoon character to promote the use of recycling and trying to convince people to take care of the planet. I think this is a successful video and it gets the message across clearly. I think my video does portray the message that I want it to well but I could benefit in using more repetition of my message to really influence people.

Completing my film

I have finally finished my film, using final cut pro i managed to put all of my film into sequence and add film transitions, effects and music. I had a few problems with the music, firstly it took me a long time to find a piece of music that was royalty free and that was long enough. In the end i ended up using music from the college media library and using ins and outs to cut and chop the music to fit my film, this was a problem because it was a short clip and i didn't get it to run through as smoothly as i wanted because of all of the layers. overall however i think my film will be moderately successful and i hope that it meets the brief sufficiently.

Film!

Last week i started to film my project i decided to use three people from my course and film them building fun things out of scrap. I filmed the whole project on one camera that just kept rolling and was one long shot; i also used a second camera to film several different shots up close and individual. I think the filming process went well because i only filmed 12 minutes of footage and got everything done without any problems. the next step for my project is to edit the film, i have used final cut pro to organize the film sequence so far and i next need to add music and effects to complete m y film.

New Ideas

originally when working for the scrap store we were meant to be taking the scrap to a school to complete our projects and make films about why we need more scrap with the children. However, communications with the school failed and they puled out therefore we are changing the plan and carrying on with our filming ideas but instead using people off of our course to help make and create our ideas. We then have to edit and complete our films and have them finished before another meeting with the scrapstore.

Another Scrapstore Visit

Today we went with college in the mini van to the scrapstore in Bristol. We gathered all of the scrap we need for the school visit, however, communications with the primary school have stopped as people are very busy so i may have to rethink about this part of my project.

We have thought instead about doing our projects but building the outcomes our selves thinking about what the children would have built and then show them to lecturers as if we went along with the original plan. Instead of going to a primary school and using children I am going to use students from my group and carry on with my idea using them.

On the visit to the scrap store I got al of the scrap i need to continue with my new idea .

Building more bridges

Today i have done more research about building bridges and structures, i spent the morning trying to find out which were the best ways to connect different parts of the bridges together. I tried using string and weaving card board together which was effective but when working with younger children this would probably take too long and they may find this difficult.

However, i found that tape was a lot more effective as its easy for the children to use and would take less time, it is also great for securing the bottoms of the structures. I have attached a picture of a bridge i made which i thought i may try but with using masking tape instead of string when i go to work with the children at the school.

Final idea

last week i started to plan my final idea, i am still going with my original idea of teaching through play using steiner school ideas, however, i am now instead of just building bridges going to get the children to build structures to either hold one of them or to hold a weighted object. I have allready collected a few items from the scrap store and now just need to go back and get a bit more then devise a short lesson plan then i will be ready to go to the school and work on my project.

My idea

Last week I came up with the idea i wanted to use when i work with the children and the scrapstore. am going to research Steiner schools and take into account the ways that they teach and use the scrap to teach the children through play. I came p with the idea that i would help the children build bridges out of scrap and place weights on top of them to show how different structures with different strengths can take different weights.

i have included a copy of my original planning ideas and a mind map of ideas for this project.

Individual planning of projects

When i started to plan my part of the project my initial idea was to make a short film documenting how the children at a local school made use of the scrapstore materials. I chose this because i thought it would show bigger companies that the didn't need to landfill their waste and that there was a better more Eco-friendly use for it.

I started to plan this idea further during the summer however, as there were already going to be two films in our group i decided to take another approach to it. My latest idea was to document the trip to the school using photographs and to set the children a task to do to advertise that the scrapstore needs more scrap. I will also be taking pictures of other projects on the day and collaborate everything from that day into one big poster and add an eye catching slogan or phrase.

Second meeting with scrapstore

The second time we met with John Pendlington from the scrapstore we had a better idea of what the scrap store wanted and were more fixed on our ideas. We discussed how the scrap store wanted to promote the use of scrap to try to get bigger companies to donate their waste and our ideas to help this happen. We came up with individual ideas which involved a visit to a local school. One idea was a large scale flat floor sculpture, another was a chain reaction film, the third was a stop motion film and the last was a poster.

This meeting helped us a lot in what our final ideas were going to be and how we were going to develop them further during the summer holiday.

First meeting with scrapstore

The second time we met with John Pendlington from the scrapstore we had a better idea of what the scrap store wanted and were more fixed on our ideas. We discussed how the scrap store wanted to promote the use of scrap to try to get bigger companies to donate their waste and our ideas to help this happen. We came up with individual ideas which involved a visit to a local school. One idea was a large scale flat floor sculpture, another was a chain reaction film, the third was a stop motion film and the last was a poster.

This meeting helped us a lot in what our final ideas were going to be and how we were going to develop them further during the summer holiday.

Choosing our partners

I have chosen to Partner with Bristol Children's Scrap-store as i think their company makes the most out of recyclable materials by reusing them before they have to be recycled and i love the creativity of their work and how they allow children to be as creative as they like.

Interaction project brief

Introduction: Creative people often work with local authorities and communities. This unit will give you the opportunity to do that, developing creative work in a social context, linked to the theme of sustainability through recycling. The main requirement is that you interact with other people- and not just your friends- to produce your work and the extent and quality of that interaction is the key to success for this unit. It is divided into two parts: part 1 by end of may and part 2 beginning of September - end of October.

BANES meeting

This is what we learned from the meeting with BANES when they came to the college...

- BANES are friends of the earth

- 43% of what’s thrown away is recycled

- Short wood is now used which results in less carbon emission

- We are being encourage to recycle more by increasing costs of landfill sites

- supermarkets have now introduced reusable bags

- you can now recycle more types of plastic

- food waste is a massive problem and they are now introducing food waste bins

oxfam meeting

We visited an Oxfam shop and they explained what they were looking for with anyone who wanted to partner with them and what their aims were...

Oxfam is a charity that makes use of clothes donations and sells them at high end prices to make a profit for the charity. They also take damaged clothes and want to create a scheme to render damaged clothes and sell them at a lower price to make use of all donations and reuse instead of recycle. Oxfam also sells a wide range of other charitable objects such as books, vinyl's, tapes and many miscellaneous objects that people donate.

COBC meeting

Lynn Scragg visited us at college from the City Of Bath College council and briefed us on the recycling policies of the college.

- The college currently has no real recycling policy they don't have recycling bins for any materials.

- We suggested they bring in recycling bins for plastic bottles, waste paper and food.

-We also suggested using posters to encourage students to not just recycle but to also re-use for example the re-use of plastic bottles.

Scrapstore meeting

Today we visited Bristol Children's Scrap-store in Montpelier, Bristol. When we arrived we met with John Pendlington who spoke with us about what the scrapstore was looking for with their partners and what type of work we would be doing if we partnered with them. He also explained what the scrapstore is about and what they hope to achieve.

After the meeting we had a look around the scrapstore and took photos and recorded interviews of customers opinions of the scrapstore and what they go there for.

We took notes throughout the visit and recorded all of the talks and meetings.
After visiting the scrapstore we visited a small organic food store next door to it called Better Foods and interviewed staff and customers about what they do and how they're more environmentally friendly and why the shopped there.

I think the meetings with the scrapstore ans Better foods were some of the more interesting meetings and i think i would like to partner with Bristol children's scrapstore.

Researching Recycling

In the second session with charlie we were told to just research and get together some basic information about recycling. We were then sent to the library to research recycling and find books with any information on it and copy those pages so that we all had different information and could then put it all together into one file of information; which would then help us with our research during the interaction project.

Introduction to interaction with charlie

Today we got introduced to the project Interaction. charlie told us that we would all meet with four different clients who were from; B&nes, Oxfam, COCB council and Bristol children's scrapstore. During meeting each client they will explain what their briefs are and what we will be working on if we choose to work with them. After meeting with each client we will need to choose one to work with throughout the interaction project.