PLTS

In this commission project, I feel that I have already successfully fulfilled the roles as a self manager, team worker, independent enquirer, creative thinker, effective participator and reflective learner.
Firstly, I think I fulfilled the role as a self manager, and still am, by keeping my time managed in the correct way.
Secondly, I think I fulfilled the role as a team worker by helping others develop their ideas for this project by giving critical analysis for their work.
Thirdly, I think I fulfilled the role as an independent enquirer by reaching goals such identifying questions and answering those problems by finding suitable ways of resolving them.
Fourthly, I think I have fulfilled the role as a a creative thinker by creating the ideas I have had for this commission project. I believe they are creative ideas and I have made them more so by using industry standard software such as Photoshop.
Fifthly, I think I have fulfilled the role as an effective participator by proposing practical ways forward and breaking these down into manageable steps.
Sixthly, I think I have fulfilled the role as a reflective learner by inviting feedback and dealing positively with praise, setbacks and criticisms.

Budget and Health and Safety

Today, the rest of the group and I did some tasks and exercises involving budgets and health and safety. For the budget, the task we did was estimating values and costs of equipment for a ten year contract with the makers of Avatar 2. We linked this with the health and safety task, by estimating the values of things concerning the health and safety of people involved with the making of Avatar 2.

The Law and Photography

The law is now cracking down on the rights to take photographs. Cameras can be taken off people who are believed to be taking pictures of iconic buildings, because they could be a terrorist. People are not allowed to take pictures of children incase they are peadophiles. Basically any photographs that are seen as arguably wrong, can be seen as an offence against the law, and the photographers who took them can be arrested without evidence of doing anything bad.

Change in Ideas

I have recently had the problem of a student disbanding from my group, and now as it is just me on my own, feel that in the remaining time we have for the commission project, that it will be a sensible choice to cancel one of my ideas for the project. Instead of the video, I will continue to pursue both the poster and the magazine ideas. Also, this project only requires one product at the most and so as I am doing two, I feel I will still fulfill more than is needed to achieve a good commission project, regardless whether I cancel one of my product ideas from going into production.

Photography

In photography I captured many professional standard photos of the new Zennor building. I then downloaded them onto a mac and edited them to make them more professional and attractive. Once I had done this, I downloaded a useful program that arranged my photos into a collage of different shapes, depending on the settings I had input. After this, I copied it into my poster document and this is what helped me complete my poster for the commission project.

Graphic Design

In my graphic design lecture, I completed my poster. Robin, the lecturer, used critical advice to help me improve anything on the poster and so I then made some finishing touches. I believe I have successfully done what I intended to, which was to make a poster that was aimed at 16-19 year old's by using contemporary, arty and attractive designs.

Film

In our film lectures, the other students and I practiced our skills with the camera and also used editing software in the mac suite to edit any footage or photos we had taken with the cameras in the lesson.

Music Technology

While the building was being finished, the other students and I had no equipment to work on the music side of our projects, so continued with any work that we could be getting on with. I tried to note down any remaining pre-production work for my video and also tried completing my poster and starting my magazine.

Team Working

As a team working starter activity, the rest of the group and I split into two teams and had 5 minutes to wrap a member of our group in loo role. The purpose of this exersise was to get us communicating within a group to produce the best mummy at the end. The winning group of the exersise would be based on the team work they had.
The main bulk of our lesson was to think of an event that would be held at Trengwainton Gardens. The event that the rest of my group and I thought of was a trail to find letters that would spell out a word. Once you have found the word, you would win a prize. This event was inspired by a trail of similar properties at Paradise Park.