Filming Opportunity

Attention all bloggers: the Drama Department is looking for some willing Media experts to make a promo video for the upcoming Bugsy Malone musical extravaganza taking place in November. Filming dates are straight  after school on Thursday 1st and Tuesday 6th October. The video could be something like this:




Interested? Please let Mrs Williams know asap.

Stop Press: Blogger of the MONTH

News just in! There is a new competition in addition to our Blogger of the Week. It's Blogger of the Month, to the overall best blogger of - well - the last 28-or-so days. The winner of this competition will be announced in the first week of the new month, so next Monday, which is the first Monday in October. The race is still on, folks, so blog away til next Monday 5th October!

Blogger of the Week

Well done to Katriona this week, who earned her strawberry laces by making some really good Prezis for her research and planning tasks. It's great when you use as wide a range of digital technology as you can to present your work - and even better to embed Prezis, Slideshare presentations, videos, etc into your blog so that the moderator can see them there rather than having to click on a link. At A2, the blogosphere has been a little quieter of late, but the prize goes to Georgia for completing a plan of action for her horror trailer. Just an observation - AS bloggers have achieved more posts than A2 bloggers so far this month - remember at A2 you're aiming for 80 posts by the end of your coursework (and at least 40 at AS, but you're well on the way!).

BBC Tour

Thank you to the Year 12s who were such great company and who proved themselves potential weather girls, newsreaders and radio drama actors and sound producers on last Friday's BBC tour. Sadly we weren't early enough to snap up tickets to see Gabrielle Applin on The One Show, but at least we experienced the sound check. Here's the video, with a topical licence fee slant:

Blogger of the Week

How the weeks are beginning to fly by, but huge congratulations to Year 12 who have taken blogging to a whole new level, uploading some of the videos they made before they began the course and blogging about other film courses and activities that have already built up their skills. Top blogger for last week is Jessie, who has achieved a fabulous 15 posts in the last couple of weeks, all of them detailed and relevant. At A2, the winner is Chaya, for posting her detailed analysis of her Little Mix video. Well done, both. Blog on, everyone!

Stop Motion Animation

Huge thank you to those of you who were able to help with Year 5's stop motion animation of the earth moving around the sun yesterday for their science lesson. Although the results may not be as professional as we'd like, their teacher was really impressed with what was achieved in, let's face it, under an hour. And they definitely now understand how night and day works!

Version 2 with added starry sky:

...and the original, less edited version:
Lots of you think about including stop motion animation in your videos, and it's a really creative - and often beautiful - use of your skills. Here are a couple of videos to look at. This is by a relative of one of the staff here at St Mary's - her own poetry with animated plastacine characters (think Wallace & Gromit or 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'):

Blogger of the Week

Welcome, Bloggers, to the first post of this academic year 2015-16! And for our first two winners of the Blogger of the Week competition we have, at AS, Charlotte, with her superb start to her Foundation Portfolio blog. She completed some detailed analysis of clips in her chosen genre, which is excellent research towards her film opening.

At A2, the competition was fierce, but Chaya finally was the first choice because she is up to date in uploading her House video and her evaluation of that task. Well done, and blog on, everyone!