Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Christmas Design Task

18th Dec 2019
L/O: Design a christmas card, jumper or alter a classic movie poster to be christmassy



This is my christmas poster that is based on 'The godfather'.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Representation

2nd Oct 2019
L/O: to create a media text showing awareness of representation and stereotypes.

Write down the STEREOTYPES used in the following film posters.

Captain America

Age: 30's

Gender: Male and female

Sexuality: Male and Female

Ethnicity: American, White ...?

Disability: ---

Stereotype: The male hero is put in the front and we can see al of his body because the poster is at a low angle so we see more of him, two men have guns to show violence, while the girl doesn't and is looking good with nothing and she is much smaller than the others. Power of america is show by the flag and the main men with guns.

Tangled

Age: 20's

Gender: Male and female

Sexuality: Male and Female

Ethnicity: White ...?

Disability: ---

Stereotype: The girl is just standing there looking pretty in a pink dress, while the man is at the back doing the manual work and is portrayed as the hero

Matrix

Age: 20 - 40

Gender: Male and female

Sexuality: Male and female

Ethnicity: White ...?

Disability: ---

Stereotype: The men are holding guns and in a fighting stance and look action(ey) while the main character is wearing all black and his full body is show, while she is holding a gun to be an anti-stereotype but is show to not be part of the team or is different because she is separated from the rest, who are men.

Making a movie poster

Genres I Might Go For:
Spy
Gangsta
Heist
Western
Short
Comedy


This is the useless film poster i have created. It has not turned out how i would have liked because i spent the whole lesson trying to make a good poster but i am not capable, so kept changing it about 3 times. I have presented the male gender represented as the hero as the only character on the screen is the hero and main character, and as psycho because of the explosion in the/ as the background, while he has no emotion on his face. This poster sticks with stereotyping, because it has a stereotypical male hero who is psycho, because women are never portrayed as psycho. It has no Stars and directors names because i didn't have time to add these because of me constantly changing my ideas all lesson, this is the same for the release date and tagline. This movie is targeted at boys who like action films.

Poster 2.0












Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Eco-School: Documentary Film Making

10th July 2019

L/O: To explore the conventions and purpose of documentary film making

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspects of reality, primarily for the purpose of instructional, educational or maintaining a historical record.

What is the purpose of documentary film making?

The purpose of making documentaries is to document important information about important events.

What are the common conventions of documentary film making in terms of imagery, sound, editing and mise-en-scene?

The common conventions of a documentary is/are : Images ( Moving and still ), Sound( Music, voice overs, sound effects ), Editing( Cut parts of the recording that don't fit or aren't up to quality, to put sound over the top of clips ), Mise-en-scene( The arrangement of the props/reporters on the screen )

Why is this particular documentary important in terms of raising awareness of the natural world?

This documentary is important because it explains how city's are changing the way animals live and this can be effecting them in a bad or good way, good because it is easier for species to find food, bad because they forget how to hunt for food and how baby turtles go up onto the beaches towards the city's lights in steed of towards the moons light.

Write a 150 - 300 word pitch for a documentary idea of your choice. It needs to be raise awareness of an environmental issue of your choice. explain where it would be set and what sort of things you would want to include.

My documentary idea is a 3 part each an hour long discussing what and where deforestation is occurring in part 1, where part 2 would go on to discus why and how and when it occurs and then finally part 3 would go on for 1 hour - 1 hour and a half, and would explain how we can stop it and help the environment by planting more trees and where to plant them, E.G. in 'Vertical forests' and in locations where deforestation occurred, why we should stop deforestation on a very large scale, and how small amounts of deforestation ( about 50 trees ) is acceptable, and finally in part 3 there would be by when we should have stopped deforestation E.G. What Year and what would happen if we didn't

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Bodmin College Eco-Schools Website

3rd July 2019

Eco-School Brief

L/O: To research and create content for the Eco-school Website

Possible Ideas
Plastic free towns, E.G Newquay
Beach Cleans/River Cleans ? 
Interviews, School staff, Local council, Local 'helpers'
Written Articles About:
Apply to be a plastic free school
Alan Stokes plastic free partnership
Bodmin air pollution

Bold, Underlined, Italic's = What i would want to do.

Plastic Free Towns.
https://www.sas.org.uk/plastic-free-communities/
'It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and changing the system that produces it.'
8,000,000 Pieces of plastic goes into the ocean every day, 5000 Plastic items pollute every one mile of beach - 5000 plastic per mile of beach-,

Beach cleans/River Cleans?






















This is one area where you can sign up to help out with cleaning up the local beaches and rivers@ https://www.sas.org.uk/plastic-free-communities/ Must get permissions to clean up the beach and fill out lots of forms. With the plastic free school you must fill out the for bellow and complete tasks in order to become a plastic free school:



Must send progress on being plastic free, Beach clean statistics show bellow:



Statistics from 2017 about beach cleans (Above )



Statistics from https://www.mcsuk.org/clean-seas/great-british-beach-clean-2018-report from 2018 Sept 14th - Sept 17th ( Bellow ), site above

  


Bodmin's Air Pollution

The official AQMA( Air Quality Management Areas) Website webpage for Bodmin:            https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=585 Which was Nitrogen Dioxide, Also Cornwall.gov.uk Website with more information about the situation in Bodmin town:
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/bodmin-air-quality/
All pollution was produced by cars and lorries according to Cornwall.gov.uk 's Website. This information is as of 2008 (Map of the area affected bellow (Green area with red outline was affected))

This survey of the area was completed 02/07/2008 which brought up the pollution situation which happened around the main town area, and Cornwall council reported on there own website saying the pollution was caused by the constant fumes ' pumped ' out of the exhausts of cars and lorries passing through the affected area. this air pollution is happening all over Cornwall in, St Austell again the nitrogen dioxide was caused by the exhausts of cars and lorries driving on the A390 and this was recorded in march of 2014, July 2015 Truro was recorded to once again be have nitrogen dioxide caused by cars and lorries exhausts that were travailing along the A390 and primarily at Highertown, St Austell's page : https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=1572
Truro's page : https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=1596
Cornwall council's Air Quality page : https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/air-quality-management-areas/

Overview:
Bodmin has a pollution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the main town centre caused by the cars and lorries exhausts, Same for St Austell, Truro ... , There are no clear/Published plans at the current time (12th July 2019 ) for what has happened from 2008 - today, 2019. As of 12th July 2019 there has been no updated air quality reports on/in Bodmin or the surrounding area's. The Bodmin council monitor Nitrogen dioxide , sulphur dioxide, Lead and Carbon monoxide, these are the main concerns for the council, so there must be some more pollutants in the air which they aren't directly telling the public. This was found on : https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/air-quality-faq/ , Last updated 05/10/2018.


Report Write-up

Although Bodmin is just a small town they still get large city's like problems, on 02/07/2008 the Air Quality Management Area's (AQMA) Produced a report on the quality of the air in Bodmin. The results shown that there was a large amount of Nitrogen Dioxide in the main town centre of Bodmin and into the surrounding housing estates, there was then a small report produced onto the Cornwall.gov.uk website stating the causation of the nitrogen dioxide was caused by the local traffic of cars and lorries that were exerting the nitrogen dioxide into the air from there exhausts, but was no problem to healthy residents, but could be harmful for people with lung/heart conditions, so had to be very cautious.

Then on 05/03/2014 the AQMA surveyed the town of St Austell, Not far from Bodmin, and they had discovered the same problem in St Austell as in Bodmin, high amounts of Nitrogen Dioxide again caused by cars and lorries passing through the local roads ( A390 + A391 ). After St Austell's air quality was tested, a year later on 01/07/2015 Truro had there air quality tested and to no one's surprise the AQMA found high amounts of Nitrogen Dioxide caused by once again cars and lorries driving on the A390, one of the same road that caused the pollution in St Austell.

Only last year (05/10/2018) , did Cornwall.gov.uk release an article about the Cornwall air quality FAQ, and mixed in with all of the questions and answers was a question asking about what kinds of air pollution do all of Cornwall councils monitor for, and they replied with Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Lead and Carbon Monoxide. So this statement is showing that there could be more harmful gases around Cornwall which aren't in large amounts for the council or public to worry about. On the Cornwall.gov.uk website they have a 'Clean air for Cornwall strategy' intend to provide help the Cornwall commitments to improve the air quality, this was made public on the 10/01/2019 but there has still been no strategy attached since the first part explaining what the strategy was going to hopefully achieve, as of 17/07/2019.

This here is the map of Bodmin showing the affected area.(Green area)


This here is the map of the affected area in St Austell.(Red area)


Finally, this is a map showing the affected area around Truro.(Red area)



Written on 17/07/2019












Friday, June 14, 2019

End Of Year Test

14th June 2019
L/O: To plan and create an effective product following a design brief

Eco-School brief

Need a logo created to show commitment to becoming and Eco -school. SIMPLE and able to print one colour.

Need a slogan. Must be SHORT AND TO THE POINT consider our eco-commitments in making our enviroment (BODMIN) a nicer place to be

We need  a Logo and a Slogan which will be relevant to our geographical position in Cornwall. Although we are not by the sea, we still can do a lot to help reduce plastic pollution.

Website. https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/secondary-pathway/



Now I have taken the three best (My opinion) and edited them even more to make them better.




Why I Chose These.

I chose eco-Bodmin college, Going Green because I believed that it was a good name and i had the slogan ' Going Green ' in my mind so i put it with that logo and it turned out very well. Originally i had the 'e' in eco and 'c' in college and Green all in the light green you see there and the rest of the words were white. But i had to change it because it was only supposed to one colour so I went with all green.

I Made The Bodmin College Project because while looking through the inter web for a leaf clip art i saw the tree and immediately came up with that design and decided to make it and then it came out how it looks there. The slogan is maybe a tad long but it is straight to the point which is what the 'customer' has asked for. I had tryed to have the words looked like they had come from the roots of the tree so the project helped grow that tree and were at the roots of it.

Finally, Eco Bodmin College Planet Preservers was a name and slogan that I had and decided to add the two leaves to the name and slogan to make it look more Eco - friendly and it looked very professional / Like an actually logo that a company would have. Out of the three I have here this one is my favorite.







Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Friday, March 29, 2019

Website brief

29th March 2019

L/O: To build an effective website

 i ended up using this as my website logo and the website is now finished and it is :

https://ben2005tucker.wixsite.com/washing This has the home page and other tabs working and with my person all of my descriptions and writing on there.





Evaluation

1. Explain your company/product including any branding choices

My company will be washing vehicles and the company has many packages to choose from and a location of an office and one wash site which i number 5 to make it seem like we had more wash sites.

2.Explain what you had to do on Wix to make your site

First i chose a template that wash car washing themed and i had to add all the writing in the text boxes and the i had to change the company name and put my logo on there and some photos of our previous work in to the website to show that we make the cars locking nice and shiny

3. Explain how pleased you are with the outcome and why

I am very very very pleased with how the site came out, because i believe it looks like a real website for an actual company and i have also had feed back from my business studies teacher and he says it was very good and detailed and very professional.

4. Explain what you would change or improve.

I would like to get rid the little ' lets chat ' box down the bottom right of the screen which i purposely made sure wasn't in the screen shots but that is all i would change.


Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Photography Challenge

27th March 2019

L/O: To experiment with perspective and composition

Giants and monsters


We had to think about the distances and the angles on the images that we took with one person in the distance.

Reflections

In this photo we had to figure out how to get the reflection and how to take the right photo.

Jump!

This photo challenged our timing skills and communication skills, these photos were the hardest to take because of timing and photo taking

Looking Up.

In this one we had to find a ledge for my partner, Jago, to stand on and me to stand bellow him taking the photos.

Looking Down


For this photo we found a nice green grass patch and Jago lay ed in the sun while i took the photo looking down on him

Patterns in Nature

To make this photo happen we had to find sticks an flowers to take a close up photo

Hand Stars

In this photo we worked with a person from a different group to make the star in this photo. It was easier than it looks.

Horseman

For this photo we worked with the same person from the other group and he was our body for us while Jago was the head in the distance

Natural Frames
For this we went around looking for different trees with ' photo frames ' that we could use to our advantage and use to take a photo through and we try'd to get a nice natural scenery through the tree.

Ground Level

For this one we just put my phone on the floor and took a photo of the floor level and it worked quite well i think, this was very simple to take