23/11/10 - Artefact Lesson

In todays lesson we looked at a slideshow of artists which was aimed to inspire us and make us think about our shoe design. I wasnt going to change my shoe until i saw this slideshow and have now changed my shoe design, which instead of a checked shoe with a cotten reel as a heel, i have decided to stick some needles to a thin material and dip in wax to create a blurred vintage effect. We finished any plans we needed to finish and then went on to start creating our shoes. I had to make a shoe pattern for my 'Fashion Shoe' and i done this by getting a shoe template and covering it in masking tape,and cutting out the sections which would then fit together to form the shoe much like the net of a cube. Next lesson im continuing this and making the base of my shoe out of a thin material. I learnt about some interesting artists in this lesson and how u can make a shoe out of anything to look like anything, if u put your mind to it.

Health and Safety when making my shoe

When making my shoe i will be using materials such as sharp needles and wire which can be dangerous,to prevent injury make sure i keep my needles in the packet until i need them and if im using wire be careful to cut it with wire cutters and make sure its near no one elses face. I also need to be carfull when using the penknifes and need to keep away from everyone else and make sure im not jogged.

Paper Shoes

The paper shoes we made at the start of the year in Artefact were meant to help us later on when we were making our actual shoes. This is because we had to put the shoe together and design it ourselves which made us thinkabout what we wanted our shoes to look like. My paper shoe was blue and gold and i tried to give it a vintage edge with the rich waxy gold colour i used ... it reflected a little bit on the design of my actual shoe as i used the blue and the vintage effect but ive changed my shoe design now which you can read in another one of my newer blog posts but it still has the vintage edge and making the little paper shoe made me think independantly about how i wanted my shoe to look.

How our Campaigns going

Last week when donations were meant to be bought in none of the Campaigns got any donations and we think this is because we didnt advertise out Campaigns enough or for long enough and its considered 'uncool' for children our age to donate.And I think one of the reasons is that a lot of people couldnt be bothered to walk all the way to the Drama Studio at their lunch or breaktime and i think it would've helped if we had a different room for them to bring their donations to. So, now were going to change our target audience to the teachers,weve now started making posters to be read out in staff breafing so that all teachers know including the part time teachers which can hand their donations in to Mr.Cole or Mrs.Haythorpe if they arnt here on a tuesday. We hope the teachers will do a better job at donating than the students!

09/11/10 - Campaign Lesson

In todays lesson we carried on working on and improving our blogs by working through the learning objectives,i found out that i need to put evidence to my work to make it of a higher standard,we also talked about making a questionaire to give to the younger children to evaluate if they think we did well and what they think we could improve,which would be helpful when completing leanring objective 5.4 and we worked on improving out t.v adverts and performances ready to film them next week.

09/11/10 - Artefact Lesson

In todays lesson we went over what we should be doing and putting in our blogs and how to improve them,we looked at exemplery blogs and work and i gained a few ideas of how i could make my work better;i need to be more creative with how i present it and put a little big more effort in e.g instead of writing the bare minimum add more to my work to make it of a higher standerd.Afterwards we carried on planning our shoe and i went into the i.c.t suite and printed off some pictures for my plan,and then started to improve my blog after what was said in lesson.

Questionaire

This Questionaire will measure how well we think and how well the year 2's think we have done with our Campaign and will measure its success: