Friday, 26 February 2010

Criteria

LO1: Background Research (10 marks): Identification of a range of partners
Who could you work with locally and what could you produce? Make a list of possibilities. You might consider arts organisations, charities, public bodies. What could you do for them?
Recently, we tried working with the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse (our local arts cinema) by working with them through the 2009 film festival - we advertised them via flyering and handing out brochures. We also helped out with the technical things including the website updates and interview recordings. We even did a few podcasts and editing jobs. HOWEVER, the Picturehouse manager Bill Thompson decided it was too tough to keep us all working at the same time as, really, when we were there the place was probably overstaffed, with more people there than what was needed.

Later on however, Simon Bates from the Junction (Cambridge's number 1 hub for youth-aimed gigs and performance). We'd met him prior to the Picturehouse work, where he was very interested in our course and what we do, hoping we could team up. When he did eventually get in touch we began going to meetings at the Junction, talking about shooting music videos there (documented here).

After shooting the music videos we then moved on to a project aimed at publicising the Junction "Fiver", an even that allows kids to get their band a high level of recognition allowing them to perform live to an audience. They're sourced off myspace or apply via email and the next thing they know they have a huge fanbase - it's a great way of bringing kids in and giving them something different to do...
Simon started us off with a few meetings discussing a promotional video to advertise the fiver even more. We were divided into groups, actually making the promo, making the making of the promo and an interview team. So far we've done our rough cuts and it's looking good - ours takes on the styles and conventions of a royal marines advert:



hopefully our final promos will be a major step up, really dragging in youtube hits and giving the fiver a bigger audience. I'd be very proud if we succeed, as this is our first proper proffesional brief.

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