5.3 my letter to Quidenhams Hospice :)

Wymondham High School

Folly Rd

Norfolk

NR18 OQT

Dear Sir/Madam,

                                 I am from Wymondham High School, and my name is Lauren, I am currently doing a creative and media diploma, and as part of my diploma I have to do a module on campaign. So through this unit of campaign we had to choice a charity of our choice in wymondham to work with and if that was possible. Which thankfully it was. And meanwhile after me and my friends from the creative and media diploma had choosen to work with quidenham Hospice, we had visited the charity shop and had spoken with members who volunteer kindly in the shop. During this visit we had asked what do they specically need help with and that was there donations, as only 20% of the dontations that are taken into the shop, are sadly not possible to display on the shelves as the poor quality they have been giving in like. So over the past few weeks are main aim as a diploma group was to help Quidneham with their donations. By doing this we have created as much awareness as possible! For starters we have created clear posters and put them around Wymondham High School, for others to see Quidenham need they generosity to help their charity! The other main thing we have done to try school and we did that on Tuesday 31st November, this performance was hopefully getting the message across that its important to give a little and help charity as it goes along way to the people that really need it the most. Also we wrote a letter for the staff at Wymondham High so it what be emailed to them and they could read it out in form times, also they may stop and think about what it really means to donate to charity! So I hope this is going to help the charity, and soon we will be coming down to your charity and showing you all the great things we have managed to get from people!

Yours Faithfully,

Lauren.

5.4Our trip to Browick Rd school ♥

Today I and the other pupils from my diploma visited the

Browick Rd

School, to do a theatre in education performance (TIE). We had the task to produce our performance which we had been working on with Mrs Haythorpe for a few of our campaign lessons. I didn't participate in the performance as I was working on the t.v. ad. But those who performed today at Browick made a rather good job, The only downfall with how the performances went was that they could of projected the voices more clearer and loudly, and looked upto the audience more, so that they are keeping focused to what they are saying.  Another thing which I think was great today was as a few students didn't turn up because of the weather(snow) and the other remaining students from my diploma, stepped in at last minute and took there roles for what they had to do during there performances.

After the performances were shown, we were then split into groups to do the workshops, like we had planned. Firstly when we started with the workshops, I was a bit nervous, as I'm not really the one for speaking in front of everybody. But as the workshops went on I got more confident to how things were going, and enjoyed working with younger children, and showing them about sharing and donating, I think by the end of it I think they got the idea that its important to share+donate. Another thing why I thought it was a good morning as it was a really good experience.

Playing games with the year 2's.

Disscussing ideas with the children.


  The children showing their performances to one another.

5.1 Why Barnado's is controversial ?

Why is Barnado's controversial ?

  A breif introduction to who Barnado's are- Barnado's believes in children, no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through.

Why Barnado's is controversial- In 2008 Barnado's made a hard hitting emotion television advert. The advert included many horriffic scences, which were: a young girl being hit by her father, followed by taking drugs, and then mugging somebody, finally it resulted that the girl was then arrested. This specific advert recieved 400 complaints, this was due to adults saying this this advert was un approaite for children, and shouldn't be being shown as a television advert. But Barnodo's thought that it would get the message across quite well, as it shows what children have to deal with throughout everyday life. Which is so very upsetting to think this happens to several children. Although this is why Barnado's is out there to help anybody in need for some help.              

5.4 How the process of donating went ♥

Reflecting on how I thought the donations process went :

As a result sadly nobody decided to help our campaign, as nobody supported us by donating their good quality goods which are not in use to them anymore! But to prevent this from happening again we will do something about it. By doing something about it we will try and make our message to donate more clearer so that people get the idea it’s not just a waste of time by getting rid of their good quality goods which are unwanted to them, it’s about YOU helping them poor unfortunate children who will have a smile on their faces when you help them in various ways, either donating money or giving items they you do not use anymore, but it's important that these products are in good condition, how you would wish to find them in a respectable manor of condition.

5.4 a questionaire for the year two pupils :)

Our questionnaire for year 2 pupils

The questionnaire below is designed to let us get feedback from the children about how they felt about the day we spent with them: (normally the yes, no answers would be replaced with happy and unhappy faces to make it easier for the children to answer the questionnaire but they would not show up on the blog)

 
The Questionnaire for year 2s

Please colour in the face to answer your question and write on the dotted lines.

Question 1.
Have you enjoyed today? 
Yes
Not sure
No

Question 2.
Did you bring in any toys to donate?
Yes
No

Question 3.
What have you learnt about charities and donating today?
…………………………………………………………………………

Question 4.
Will you start donating to charity shops more often?
 Yes
Maybe
No

Question 5.
If so what will you donate?
……………………………………………………………………………

5.1

Understanding the nature and purpose of campaigns!

My example of an already existing campaign would be about Children and Need.

This is because Children and Need is a very good example of a campaign, it has been introduced since 1927. This campaign is one of the most popular organizations of campaigns, it happens in the middle of November every year.  This campaign is showing how successful it is been so far over the years as it is still running today.

The main messages or ideas behind the campaign.

The main messages behind this event are that this campaign supports unfortunate children all around the world. They do this by raising money in different ways or simply donating money to there local bank,t.v, online and the phone.

The target audience of the campaign.

The main target audience of this certain campaign would most probably be parents with children of their own, and maybe children themselves as they see unfortunate children and would like to help those less unfortunate then themselves.

- Another of the target audiences would be schools as they have many pupils in the school, that help raise money for children in need by doing all sorts of things like: Bringing in money for wearing non-school uniform, all a pudsey the bear cake sale, which is one of the favourites which happened at my middle school which was Robert Kett Junior.

The strategy of the campaign and the methods used to reach the target audience.

As a  strategy they use to promote they campaign they use a television programme which start early evening and runs throughout the evening to early hours of the morning. On this programme the people watching it are shown short clips of unfortunate children and there backgrounds, music-people singing live, and key speakers throughout the night and many other things are taken place throughout the programme.

- Another strategy they use to promate there campaign, is a mascot called pudsey bear, this then connects with the children who are watching, and is a very good way to put your campaign across even further, this started in 1985.

The success of the campaign in achieving its aims.

The 2009 appeal was a fantastic success raising a record breaking £39 million, this is already starting to make a massive difference to those poor less unfortuante children around the world, which is a great achievement from the target auidences who help this cause in the ways they do this.

5.2 workshop plan for year 2's

A Workshop Plan For The Year Twos♥

As part of the campaign module with our teacher Mrs Haythorpe we are going to visit the local infant school Browick Road. Whilst we are at the school we are going to be split up into small groups to produce a workshop for the year two to take part in. For the workshop we have planned several activites for the children to take part in, some of the suggestions have been: showing a piece of drama and in these performance there will be two year ten students arguing amongst a toy while the year two students are quitely watching to spot what wrong with this performance, and then they should therefore say that there not sharing so then they can come up and show what this piece of drama should look like. Another idea we have had to work with them is to get a few of the year two students to hide toys around the classroom whilst the remaing students will wait outside and then once the others have hidden the toys they can then come in and try and find the toys, but if they find more than one toy they will have to give it to another student who hasn't got one and that is therefore getting them to share between each other. Which is a great thing for them to learn how to do. Meanwhile the other half of my diploma group will be putting on a performance which they have been working on, this performance will hopefully get the message across about sharing and donating.

Video Journals

-Questions you may include: Use of format, which type of format?

-How can you make it creative?

-Use of Narrative Arc (narration)

What you may need if making a video journal:

- Video or Digital camera.

- Subject

- Setting

- Planning

- Format

- Creativity

What a Producer should do:

-Firstly they are the people which makes things actually happen.

- In charge of how things are edited.

- The paperwork- Health&safety, for example.

What a Director should do:

- Organizes the shoots, how they look for starters.

- Making sure that everything is looking good.

- Checks everything is ok with the shoots.

What an interview should be like:

-Challenging

- Revealing

- Evocative

- Provocative

- Emotional

- Engaging

Who do you need to make your video journal? :
- Camera man/woman
-  Producer (interviewer)
- A person to actually interview.

5.2 The leaflet design of our choosen charity E.A.C.H.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010, this below is the leaflet to show the campaign about E.A.C.H. which is a charity, Nina Vicky, Jasmine,Kadiee and myself (Lauren) are working with.

Here below is Vicky,Kadiee,Nina,Jasmine, and my logo. Which I and Jasmine had made during one of our campaign/blogging lessons.
 

 

This logo is good as we have choosen to use quite calm colours. To our group we thought this logo looked quite child friendly.

Homework ♥ :)

Quidenham Wymondham children’s Hospice.

What the charity does to help –

    They support children and their families with the challenges that having a life-threatening condition can often bring. Services may be provided in the family home, the community or the hospice.

The range of services includes:

♥ Dare care in the family home or hospice, or both.

♥ overnight breaks in the hospice.

♥ Support for parents, siblings, grandparents and others close to the child.

♥ 24 hour telephone support and advice.

♥ Therapies – music, physio, occupational and specialist play.

♥ Family information service.

♥ End of life care in the family home or the hospice depending on the family preference.

♥ Annual memory days and ongoing support for bereaved families.

Where the Hospices are-

Each (Quidenham) charity has many children’s hospice and care services in family homes throughout Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex. Which is great as everybody can get help anywhere in different areas.

5.1 Campaign :) Mary Queen of charity shops.

we have just watched a few video clips of Mary Queen of Charity Shops' to start of our campaign of helping the local charity shops in our area.
- It was rather shocking to see they only sell 1/4 of the things that come into the charity shop which people have brought in for them to sell, but they obviously need to take more care and thought in what people are actually going to buy. Instead of putting on they're old tack that nobody really wants!
On top of this all the junk people bring into the charity shop they have to pay to put people wasteful items they don't care about and people don't want to put into a massive bin and they need to pay to hire them twice a week, which means paying £45.00 of there on money to put people's in useful waste.
Our campaign is to improve charity shops in our local area by trying several different things such as : creating leaflets, posters, a TV advert, also a radio broadcast.
Our aim is to get people of our (13-20yrs) to get donating their old clothes to charity shops more business.
To find out about Mary Portas check her out on several different websites :P

5.4

Homework -  ♥

 This is my summary of Campaign, Artefact and Performance.
. During campaigning we will investigate how to create a good campaign, and see how much is involved in making a campaign, by doing this we will all get involved by producing posters and advertisments e.c.t.
. Meanwhile studying the performance module we will see how they have developed over time, due to the audiences.
. Lastly in the Artefact department we will understand and discover, how and why they are made for a particular reason. Also we will be creating some of our very own Artefacts.

Hello this is Lauren Felice's Blog :) x

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         Im Lauren and I chose to do the Creative and Media Diploma, as i was interested in several things which were included in the diploma :D x