New Project Proposal

For my new project i am designing posters for events for Trengwainton Gardens for example they are holding a Wet Nose Day which is a day when they let people bring there dogs into the gardens and i thought they could do a dog treasure hunt, where they have to look round the gardens for hints and with the hints there will be some information with the flowers or trees which they are near. So i am also going to design some maps for the hunt. And when they collect all the little hints and figure it out they will win a prize for there dog and them as well.
The also are having an easter egg hunt aswell for easter so i will also design maps for that aswell which is the same idea the only thing different obviously is that the hints will be different and so will the prize but it is the same in you have to collect and work out the hints to win the prize in the end.
I thought these ideas would be good because they will work as a team and also have fun and look at the flowers and plants they have at the garden but also getting information still about the plants so they are not ignoring the gardens and just looking for the hints. It will also be good for the dogs as they will have a walk around the gardens with the owners and they will get a prize after wards.
The children will have fun as well because for the easter egg hunt with the hints they will have little chocolate eggs as well so they still have something if they dont win the prize in the end.

Penwith Radio

Our group went and visited Penwith Radio which is a community radio station broadcasting from the Wharfside in Penzance. We interviewed Julian Horner and took some photos as well. They were very interested to get involved with our year group to widen the audience to appeal the whole of the community. Our interaction project could be an offline radio show using Logic Pro and we could also have the opportunity if we get into the idea to have work experience there as well as it would be a good opportunity as we like media based work.

Tate Gallery

We all went to Tate Gallery in St ives and sat down with Rebecca who co-ordinates education activities which are a part of the Tate's remit and a reason it receives a government grant.

We had a tour round the gallery and the focus at the moment is there new exhibition. The artist is called Lily Van der Stokker who has drawn directly on the gallery's walls. When i looked at the pieces they seemed child like and very Innocent. I really like how different they are to other artists and i really liked the new exhibition they have in there as i think everyone would like her work not just a certain audience. There was Sofas in there with paintings behind them on the wall and even though it doesnt sound that interesting you completely think differently when you actually go there and see the work she has done there.

Targets

Here are tha targets that i set with becky today.
By the end of the day i will update my blog in order to try to reach a higher mark band for assignment 2.
By the end of the week i will complete my evaluation on commission
By the end of the week i will catch up with everyone.

Target Audience

Our target audience would be 17 up wards year olds as they will be more into our film, as I don’t know the history of St Ives and I would like to know and I’m sure plenty of people my age would want to know the history of St Ives if they live there.

Proposal

We plan to make a short film in St Ives of the beach, sea and the island to show St Ives in the past and how much it has changed. We are using some archive footage and do some filming ourselves as well. We are not planning to have any voice over in the short film but we are going to either use our own music or we want the music to be calm and relaxed, as we want the audience to think for themselves and to contemplate, because everyone is going to think differently.

We want to put in the film of modern St Ives and then archive footage next to each other to show how much that certain place has changed. We want fairly still shots. We are thinking of some of the experimental shots could be of children playing on the beach or running across the sand as there are lots of children on the beaches in St Ives.

And also a sunset shot because we thought this would be a nice clip to put into our film. It wont be just the tourists we are going to be filming we want to get there early hours so we can get the calm point in St Ives.

We want to reveal the hidden St Ives as not many people know a lot about St Ives apart from the beaches and there is so much more to know about the place.

As Harriet lives in St Ives she will be doing most of the filming and photographs and I will be doing most of the editing as I don’t live there, but I will go over and help her film when she needs my help as we are working together. We thought of this idea as many people will not know a lot about the history and what St Ives used to look like as they may be to young, not lived down here to long or has not even thought about what St Ives used to look like as they might not be many short films that tell them.

When the audience finish looking at our video we want them to be thinking a lot and I think from the ideas we have already go this will make them do that definitely.

We think that this will take us 5 weeks to do

Week 1- Plan Ideas, what we need to take and where we want to film.

Week 2 – Looking at the old footage

Week 3 – We want to go to St Ives and start filming and take pictures

Week 4 – Finish off filming and start editing

Week 5 – Finish off the editing that needs doing and complete our video.

Targets

By the end of the day

Find Harriet and do our pitch
Finish off commission
Ge whats on guide stuff done
decide on a partner for interaction

By the end of the week

finish commission
write blogs about partners
research the partner i decide to use

Tregwainton Gardens

Today the Media and some of the other group is going to go to Trengwainton Gardens. This belongs to national trust heritage. We are going to look at the project Wet Nose day which is when you are allowed to take your dogs into the garden. We are going to think of ways to advertise the day this could help us with some of our work experience as we could spend some of the days for it at Trengwainton Gardens as it will be and experience to us as most of us have never done anything like iot before.

Ideas for Tregwainton Gardens

The group come up with the idea of having an easter egg hunt for the kids and parents to do. Our plan is to have 4 pictures of eggs but there different colours but in different sections of the garden, for example in the first section everyone will have to find a picture of a green egg and then when they found the picture and move on to the next section of the garden and will have to find a picture of another egg but this time it will be a different colour. Once they have found all the eggs then they win the prize. We were also thinking of putting 1 gold egg in each section and the person that finds one will get another prize, but they can only have one gold egg. Also having face painting and maybe even some competitions for the kids to participate in. We will be going to the garden earlier in the day so we can see where we can put the pictures obviously not putting them in places where people are going to be damaging the plants, and tying them up with a piece of string so once again we are not damaging any of there plants they have in Tregwainton Gardens.
Tregwainton gardens are having a wet nose day which is a day where people can bring there dogs into the garden. We thought we would keep the idea of a hunt but this time they obviously win dog treats and toys for there dogs. We thought these ideas would be good as everyone has to work together and plus they can see the plants in the garden as they are walking around the area.

My Poster I Designed For Wet Nose Day

This is the poster i designed for Trengwainton Gardens for the event they are going to have which is called wet nose day. This day was going to be a day where people can bring there dogs in and we are going to plan events for both the owners and there dogs to particpate in. For example a dog hunt where they would have to look around the gardens for hints to where the prize is and the first people there with there dogs would win something for there dog and themseleves.

Introduction

We had an Introduction to our new project that we are going to be starting after Easter Trengwainton Gardens and we the opportunity to take pictures of the garden for graphic design project. We took pictures of the flowers and the some other different types of plants. In this project we are required to work alongside local community groups or charities to see if they can assistance us and hopefully use some of our new developed skill in graphic design.

Second Trip Golowan and The Exchange

About Golowan Festival Organizers:

Golowan Community Arts is a registered charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee. Based in Penzance, Cornwall, UK, their primary charitable aim is to:"Advance education for the public benefit through the promotion of art and culture with particular, but not exclusive reference to the art and culture of the Celtic regions of Europe."Golowan brings together people of all ages in the town's annual June festival and runs year round community projects, which celebrate local culture and enhance the social and natural environment.

About Festival:

The Golowan Festival brings the past and present together in Penzance's community celebration of the traditional Feast of St. John, featuring The Golowan Band, Penglaz, Serpent Dances, The Quay Fair, the demonic democracy of the Mock Mayor Elections, Summer Fire, seaborne visitors to Sea and Sail and Quay Fair Day, banners and greenery, giant imagery and parades. As well as the hundreds of local performers taking part, Golowan is pleased to welcome a host of national and international artists visiting to participate in the full ten day programme of events.

Newlyn Art Gallery has a 112 year history of developing regionally significant contemporary art projects. Over the past 20 years the level of ambition within the organisation has increased very significantly, to the point where the gallery consistently delivers nationally significant programmes of exhibitions and education projects.

The gallery was previously limited by its building, necessitating a redevelopment in order to realise its plans to showcase the very best of national and international contemporary art. The newly refurbished gallery reopened on 7th July 2007, alongside major new art space The Exchange, in the heart of Penzance.

Primary Research for Interaction Project

Our class visited The Acorn Theatre and Penlee Gallery in Penzance. When we went there we asked the staff to find out a few things about their events and projects. The Acorn Theatre is the only one in Penzance, so this is a good selling point. They put on there own events, and take bookings from others. The entire building is frequently hired out for performances and private parties. They have disable access, and often put on community projects for young people with learning difficulties.
The Acorn Arts Centre is a small, independently run arts venue with charitable status, in the heart of Penzance, Cornwall. In 1987 the trustees of Cornwall Theatre Company Ltd., a small scale touring theatre company, took over the assets and liabilities of the near defunct Penzance Arts Centre. Their aim was to increase and expand the audiences of the old arts centre by injecting a new enthusiasm for the arts into the community and widening the spectrum of arts provided.

Penlee House, Penzance, is the only Cornish public gallery specialising in the Newlyn School artists (c.1880 - c.1940) including Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Harold Harvey and Laura Knight. Set in an elegant Victorian house and park, Penlee House also covers West Cornwall's archaeology and social history, and offers an excellent café and shop.
The Penlee Gallery is a gallery and a museum of Cornish classic art the Newlyn and Lamorna Schools of Art take up most of the gallery space there. Their community arts project arent on at the moment due to the retirement odf their previous community arts manager, it will be open again soon though.