This was another weird thing i liked down at the South Bank. It was a huge magnet, but obviously not that powerful. But powerful enough for people to have fun with their old coppers. As you can see from the picture many people had fun and enjoyed using this weird but wonderful item, just stuck in the middle of the South Bank.

This was when we went to the South Bank for a trip to see all the creative and media activities. This was one of the wonderful street artist. He was creating a replica of a wonderful oil painting, on the concrete slabs which make up the South Bank. There was a real buzz about his artwork. I loved all the artist and their genious pieces of work along the front of the South Bank.

1.4 Final Outcome Log

Strengths:

I thought that my final brochure was good. As i really liked my colours that i used as they really suited the brochure as i based the middle pages and back page. I think that it if it was published, people would be able to get information from it quickly and easily. It would be easily understandable.

Weaknesses:

I feel that i could've done the job better and quicker with the desiging of my Leaflet/Booklet for the south bank. I feel that i could've included in some more information and facts about the south bank.

1.3 Log

Strengths:

And i think my review was quite good. As i managed to incorporate alot of my own opinions into it, giving a little bit of humour into it.

I also thought that i managed to do alot of research on my chosen film. Which i thought was very vital, as i only saw the movie once and so i couldn't remember that much of it when i came to review.

Weaknesses:

I thought that i could've included more facts of the movie into the review so the people reading my review could understand etc how long it was.

1.2 Log

Strengths:


I thought i was able to find lots research really quickly and easily. So it didn't take long to find all the information that i needed.



The information was easy to understand. I found with ease and needed no help.

Weaknesses:

I could've done with some help to understand the jobs.

I could've used some job sites to try and understand the pay scale of some of the jobs.

1.1 Log

Strengths:

I thought my research was good as i managed to get most of it quickly and easily

I also thought i understood and read the information i found before just copying and pasting it as i had to understand it to know what it was talking about. In case someone asked me what it said, i could tell/explain it to the person.

Weaknesses:

Maybe i could've done a little bit more research.

I could've tried to put the information in my own words so it looked like i had understood it

Learning Log

Today we have been working on our Unit 1 Scene work and i think my work has been coming along quite well i have made my front cover and to me it looks really good and it went through so many steps like: 1) I thought of the idea of using arrows pointing to the different Gallerys and Halls and i took this idea from a picture on a trip to the South Bank

Final Evaluation

So overall with my back cover i was very pleased with it. As i spent so much time on my front cover that my middle pages and back cover i didn't have much time on them so i am very pleased with how they turned quite well.
Strengths: My layout plays a key part in this

Weaknesses: There are no visuals

Ways to Improve: By including pictures of the places mentioned











Strengths: It'c colourful so it can attraction attention of the audience, It has information on films on at the imax and what the imax is about

Weaknesses: Not enough information

Ways to improve: More information and more films could be put on there

Strengths: Bright, colurful, text clearly dislayed

Weaknesses: Not enough "in your face" attitude, because that will help it to shout out to the tartget audience

Ways to improve: Come up with more ideas for it

1.4 Final outcome: Guide to the creative and media scene in the Southbank

This is my back cover which is using the blue and white from the front cover as I used the yellow and black for the back cover. This page i used for talking about the BFI Imax and what films are on at the moment there. I talk about the what the Imax is and the films. I especially like the screen with the "BFI IMAX" on the screen and it looks like it is on the screen and it's almost like your actually there. With the films i tried to use a colour on the text that was the same colour on the picture. I got most of my information for the films from the internet as well as the information about the BFI Imax

Unit 1 Scene 1.4 The Back Cover

With this I used the black and yellow of the first front cover as in that it has the colours: white then to blue then to yellow and then black. So for the back pages i used the yellow and black as it best shows the text and pictures. Mainly with the back cover i wanted to show information on something other than the BFI Imax. Like the Hayward Gallery and the Globe Theatre where the other two I picked to put on the back cover.

Unit 1 Scene 1.4 The Middle Pages

In progress

Unit 1 Scene 1.4 The Front Cover

This is my front cover for my leaflet of the South Bank. I took the idea of the arrows pointing to the different places from a picture that Ms Chasteauneuf took of the trip to the South Bank. I used because i thought that it would be a good idea to include in the making of the front cover of the leaflet. Notice how I did not copy and past the picture but I recreated it. What i like of the leaflet i have made is the lettering "The SouthBank" at the top i like the white outline i made and the green shadow of the text. To me it almost makes it feel like a human being with a shadow of its own like it's alive. I also like the BFI logo in the back, i did this by using the contrast tool and lowering it so it didn't look too overpowering and contrast with everything else on the page. Also I tried to put a landmark that is in the South Bank so i put in a picture of the London Eye. This is one of the main tourist attractions but i could've included more or maybe a different one e.g. Big Ben.

Unit 1 Scene 1.3 Critical Response

Review of Clash of The Titans 2010 at The Imax

The Imax

Imax stands for Image Maximum.

“IMAX is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by the Canadian IMAX Corporation. The Company’s activities include the design, leasing, marketing, maintenance and operation of IMAX film and digital theatre systems as well as the development, production, post production and distribution of IMAX motion pictures.[1]
IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than most conventional film systems. A standard IMAX screen is 22 × 16.1 m”

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX


Synopsis

“Half-man, half-god Perseus (Worthington) is raised by kindly fisher folk, but when they are killed by Hades (Fiennes) - collateral damage in the war between men and gods - he sets forth on a perilous revenge quest to find his destiny, rescue a princess and resolve his issues with his father Zeus (Neeson), king of the gods.”

From: http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=118413


“Perseus embarks on a quest to avert war between the Gods and mankind. En route, Perseus clashes with the gorgons and a giant scorpion in the desert. Both provide formidable tests of the hero's mettle. The beautiful Io aids Perseus on his epic odyssey but even the offspring of one of the Gods is powerless against some denizens of the land and sea.”

From:
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/films/clashofthetitans3d.html





“Clash of the Titans is a 2010 fantasy film and remake of the 1981 film of the same name (the rights to which had been acquired by distributors Warner Bros. in 1996). As with the 1981 film, the story is very loosely based upon the Greek myth of Perseus.”

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_(2010_film)

My Review


Clash of the Titans. Sounds impressive right? For me it was a really good movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly especially the characters and special effects. I did enjoy the plot, but there were a few points where it thought it could have improved.

But overall I did enjoy it the climax was tense. Battles here. Battles there. Its Action! Action! Action! It is everything I enjoy in a film, it’s all mainly action which I think is very good. As long as the plot makes sense of course.

The character Perseus (Sam Worthington) is the main protagonist (hero) of the story. I think his part is very significant obviously I loved the way how his character took control and became the hero he needed to be. From when Worthington was a mere peasant fisherman he became an epic fighter by finding out who he really was, which was the son of Zeus (Liam Neeson) and trying to save a small coastal city from Hades and the terrifying Kraken.

I loved all the special effects they were really great like the giant scorpions and the kraken. It looked so real and it was really good watching it in 3D. I overally enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a truly spectacular film.


Overall I thought the film was very good some points could be better but overall I would rate it 9.5 out of 10. It was very good when I saw it.

1.2 Research on the range and types of creative and media activity in the Southbank.

Unit 1 Scene

List of Sources

Creative & Media Jobs

http://www.reed.co.uk/Job/SearchResults.aspx?jto=False&s=947&set=2&SearchID=-2147483648&EpdId=-2147483648&ns=True&ss=True&ps=20&sr=1&FromSector=1&WT.mc_id=SE-Google-ReedB2C_Marketing&WT.srch=1&gclid=CPn_4f6WoKQCFYn-2AodqF-O4w

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/jobs/media/?CMP=KNCJOBSCHKW1079&gclid=CJKK9dSXoKQCFRr92AodZFkd5g

http://www.creativepool.co.uk/?gclid=CMGwjtyXoKQCFYeY2Aod7SZw3g

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/jobs/browse.php?cat=1016

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/jobs/media/creative/uk/england/greater-london/

http://www.simplynewmediajobs.co.uk/jobs/creative_jobs/

http://www.simplynewmediajobs.co.uk/jobs/design_and_production_jobs/

http://www.simplynewmediajobs.co.uk/jobs/graphic_design_jobs/

http://www.brandrepublic.com/

http://www.jobtube.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/root.jobcatall/jobs/11

http://www.ukjobsnet.com/media-creative-design-jobs-in-london

http://jobs.nma.co.uk/

http://www.creativejobs.co.uk/

Unit 1 Scene 1.2 Research on the jobs

Creative and Media Employment Roles and Requirements in London

Here I am explaining about the different jobs that are in the creative and media jobs in London. These are the results of my findings:

Different Jobs

Architect

Job description

Architects work in the construction industry and are involved with designing new buildings, extensions or alterations to existing buildings, or advising on the restoration and conservation of old properties. They can work on individual buildings or on large redevelopment schemes, and can be responsible for the design of the surrounding landscape.
Architects work closely with their client and users to make sure that projected designs match their needs, and are functional, safe and economical. They usually control a project from start to finish and work with a number of construction professionals, including surveyors and engineers, producing drawings and specifications that the construction team works to.

Responsibilities


· preparing tender documents for contracts;
· project managing and co-coordinating the work of contractors;
· controlling a project from start to finish;
· regular site visits to check on progress, ensuring that the project is running on time and to budget;
· resolving problems and issues that arise during construction;
· ensuring that the environmental impact of the project is limited.
· keeping within financial budgets and deadlines;
· producing detailed workings, drawings and specifications;
· specifying the nature and quality of materials required;
· preparing tender applications and presentations;
· negotiating with contractors and other professionals;
· preparing applications for planning and building control departments

Qualifications

You will usually need GCSE mathematics and English at grade C or above and a few schools of architecture ask for maths or a science at A-level, so do check the entry requirements of individual schools.
Schools of architecture will express their offer in terms of the UCAS tariffs, but typically you will need at least two subjects at A level or one A and two AS levels, which should be drawn from academic fields of study.
Many Schools of Architecture also recognise other further education qualifications such as BTEC National Diplomas.

Graphic Designer

Job description

Graphic designers produce design solutions to communicate client messages with high visual impact. Graphic design solutions are required for a huge variety of products and activities, such as websites, advertising, books, magazines, posters, computer games, product packaging, exhibitions and displays, corporate communications and corporate identity (e.g. giving organisations a visual 'brand').
A graphic designer works to a brief agreed with the client or account manager. They develop creative ideas and concepts choosing the appropriate media and style to meet the client's objectives.
The work demands creative flair, up-to-date knowledge of industry software and a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines.



Responsibilities

working as part of a team with printers, copywriters, photographers, other designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists.
• proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work;
• contributing ideas and design artwork to the overall brief;
• demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches;





Dancer

Job description

Dancers use movement, gesture and body language to portray a character, situation or abstract concept to an audience, usually to the accompaniment of music. This normally involves interpreting the work of a choreographer, although it may sometimes require improvisation.
Dancers work in a variety of genres ranging from classical ballet and West End musicals to contemporary dance. A dancer's role may involve education or therapy, as well as performance.
Dancing is a competitive and physically demanding career, which often involves periods of unemployment and underemployment. Many dancers will need to combine part-time jobs in areas such as performing, administration and teaching.

Qualifications
Anatomy Diploma (Compulsory for students wanting to take a dance teaching qualification)
I.D.T.A Professional Dance Teaching qualifications in: Ballet, Tap, Modern Jazz, Freestyle, and
Dance Exercise.
Trinity Guildhall Singing (65 UCAS points)
Trinity Guildhall Performance Acting (65 UCAS points)
Trinity Guildhall Communication and Text (65 UCAS points)
Trinity Guildhall Musical Theatre (65 UCAS points)

Course Hours - Students train between 22 - 26 hours per week









We had some people visit us at the college they were:

• Marcel Pusey (Bassistry + producer)
• Paul Mardles (Journalist – sub editor on Observer Music Monthly
• Akala (Rap artist + Channelle Newman Sony Hip Hop Shakespeare Company)
• Victoria Warwick (Radio Advertising)
• Marcina Arnold (Voice Coach)
• Kevin Leo (Song Writer)


From these people, I have learned that the creative and media industry is:


• A growing industry with lots in it you can do
• An industry where there is lots you can enjoy about it
• It has a lot of potential in it where many people can succeed with whatever their talent is

Unit 1 Scene 1.2 Research on the jobs

Creative and Media
An overview of the creative and media industries sector
The creative and media industries combined make one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK economy.
It can be divided into four broad sub-sectors - content, design, performing arts, and heritage and tourism. The sectors in this industry include:
• advertising
• architecture
• art and antiques
• computer and video games
• crafts
• design
• fashion design
• film and video
• music
• performing arts
• publishing
• software
• television and radio
Key drivers in the creative and media industries sector
The government aims to make the UK a global hub for the creative and media industries. Efforts have been focused on improving seven areas which drive productivity in the sector:
• education
• competition and intellectual property (IP)
• technology
• business support (including access to finance)
• diversity
• infrastructure
• evidence and analysis
The emergence of new technologies has changed the nature of market opportunities in the sector. For example, digital delivery has altered hugely the way content in the music, software, television and radio sub-sectors is supplied to consumers. New media is increasingly a key area of focus for growth.
Careers in Media
In the creative and media industries, every sector organises itself differently, but all individuals and teams share one common aim: to create successful products.
Jobs in Pre-Production
Art Director
Designer
Character Designer
Prop Designer
Background Designer
Colour Stylist
Clean Up Artist /Design Assistant
Casting Director
Casting Assistant
Jobs in Production
Assistant Director
Animation Director

Key or Lead Animator
Background Painter
Animator

Junior Animator
Key Clean Up Artist (Animation)
Assistant Animator
Lighting technician
Live mixer


Line Test Operator *
Runner *

Production Secretary
Jobs in Post-Production
Special Effects Animator Digital Compositing Supervisor
Compositor
Checker
Editor
Editing Assistant

Other Media

Journalist
Broadcast Journalist
Presenter
Researcher
Editor
Editorial Assistant


Careers in Design
Graphic Designer
Designer
Web Designer
Web Developer
Interactive Media
Corporate Identity Designer
Editorial Designer
Multimedia Designer
Exhibition Designer
Packaging Designer
Print Designer
Product Designer

Careers in Music
Composer
Music Supervisor
Music Agent
Record producer
Artist’s Manager
Performer



Careers in Art
Drapesmaster
Art Department Coordinator
Story Board Assistant
Draughtsmen [ responsible for drawing up set design]
Graphic Artist
Set Decorator
Assistant Production Buyer
Prop Maker
Prop dresser
Prop storer
Photographer
Costume Design
Wardrobe supervisor











Defining the creative media industries
Skillset is the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media and works to raise skills levels in every sector of industry within its remit.
Skillset subdivides the creative media industries into ten sectors:
animation;
computer games;
facilities (which includes post production, studio and equipment hire, special physical effects, outside broadcast, processing laboratories, transmission, manufacture of AV equipment and other services for film and TV);
film;
interactive media;
other content creation (pop promos, corporate and commercials production);
photo imaging;
publishing (books, journals, magazines, newspapers, directories and databases, news agencies, and electronic information services);
radio; and
television.

Unit 1 Scene 1.1 Research

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected (in April 1988). The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs the majority of its London concerts in the hall.[1]
The hall was built as part of the Festival of Britain by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts for London County Council, and was officially opened on 3 May 1951. When the Greater London Council (LCC's successor) was abolished in 1986, the Hall was taken over by the Arts Council. Since the late 1980s the hall has operated an 'open foyers' policy, opening up the substantial foyer spaces to the public throughout the day, even if there are no performances. This has proved very popular and the foyers are now one of the best used public spaces in London.
Each year Southbank Centre puts on a festival known as "Meltdown". This year the festival was curated by Richard Thompson and featured events across the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The closest tube stations are Waterloo and Embankment.

Unit 1 Scene 1.1 Research

Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark on the south bank of the River Thames which was destroyed by fire in 1613. The modern reconstruction was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker and built approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre. The theatre was opened to the public in 1997 with a production of Henry V. The site also includes a reconstruction of the Blackfriars Theatre.

The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by the playing company, Lord Chamberlain's Men, to which Shakespeare belonged, and was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613.

Unit 1.1 Research

The BFI IMAX is a 500-seat (including wheelchair spaces), state-of-the-art, large-format cinema on the South Bank.

• The screen is more than 20 metres high (nearly the height of five double-decker buses) and 26 metres wide.
• A 11,600-watt digital surround-sound system
• An IMAX projection system (the most sophisticated motion-picture projection system in the world).

Working together, these elements immerse viewers in larger-than-life images and ultra-realistic digital sound, making them feel as if they are literally "in the picture".

The IMAX building
It was opened in 1999 and was made possible thanks to £15 million from the Arts Council of England's Lottery Fund.

It was designed by award-winning architect Bryan Avery of Avery Associates Architects

The multi-storey, glass-enclosed cylinder, illuminated by coloured lighting effects at night, serves as a beacon to the revitalised South Bank.

The BFI London iMax is situated in the centre of Waterloo, literally in the middle of a huge roundabout. Since it opened in 1999 it has become an iconic building and something of a London landmark and popular tourist attraction. Apart from being a state-of-the-art cinema in which films are shown on the iMax format, the building itself with its innovative, circular design and glass exterior is worth visiting.

Despite being surrounded on all sides by the constant hum of the capital’s road traffic, the building itself is virtually immune to any noise pollution as it was specifically designed to absorb noise. In fact, the whole building floats gracefully on a series of bearings, as it perches just above a tube line and the rumble of trains would not have been a welcome addition to a night at the cinema. So, when you’re watching a film, the closest you’ll come to noticing a double-decker bus is by looking at the screen, which stretches up to the height of five of them.

The iMax format is well known around the world and there are currently over 60 iMax cinemas. Most of these showcase documentary or specialist films and many of the buildings tend to be of a pioneering or ground-breaking nature, with design being a key feature, rather than the often bland look of many conventional cinemas. The London iMax certainly has a wow factor and it stands out from the more traditional buildings that sit across from it. The modernity of the building is actually in stark contrast to some of its neighbors but this only adds to its appeal. It does have a few more modern cousins situated nearby and it is actually very well placed as a piece of iconic architecture, sitting as it does in the pathway to the South Bank.