Kill It Kid

A local band will be performing at Komedia in Bath this wednesday who reside by the name of Kill it Kid. The Band Contains five members, they are Marc Jones (Drums) , Chris Turpin (Vocals & Guitar) , Adam Timins (Bass) and Stephanie Ward (Vocals & Piano). As media students me and four of my other classmates will be filming their performance and interviewing them as well. The format and style of DVD in which we are hoping to package will be based on the famous abbey road sessions.

We are going to film

• The Performance in a Multi-Camera Setup
• The Interview with the Band
• Vox-Pops with some of the fans

Before we film the band it wouldn't hurt to know a bit about them in general....

• Kill it Kid reside in Bath and are former students of Bath Spa University

• Their sound has been described as a fusion betweern Blues, Rock and americana

• They released their self titled debut album in 2009 to crittical acclaim

• The Band have toured through Europe and America and have supported the likes of Feeder, Foy Vance and Brandi Charlie 

Well we are looking forward to filming the band and hopefully delivering an edited package in a professional manner.

Here is a link to the bands official Myspace page

Media Event - The Day

Today was the epic Media Event which we have been planning for weeks.  The shedule for the day  was as follows.


9.15-Icebreakers




9.30-Group Division



9.50-1st Activity



10.15-Second Activity



11.00-3rd Activity



11.45-Walk Tour to Moreton



12.30-Toilet Break



12.45- Room 111 Guest Speaker/Also de-rigging/Lunch



1.45-Evaluation



1.50-Goodbyes and Montage-goody bag/Take the group to the bus stop.
 
 
On the day three activaties were being run for the students which were.
 

Big Draw:


Details of the activity

An example film will be shown at the beginning of stop motion illustration. The students will then crete their own stop motion together on a large whiteboard/paper.


Green Screen :


Details of the activity

Introduce the Students to the Green Screen and then have a quick and concise ‘lesson’ on Chromakey. Then Play a game where someone stands in front of the Green Screen and has to guess where they are , whilst everyone else watches on the screen......... other part of this activity to be confirmed.

Shoot Out :


Details of the activity

The Students in this activity watch a shoot out scene from a western film , they they have to plan their scene, thinking about camera angles, the feel/story they want to create and how they are going to film it.

• The Day Itself

Carlina and I were given the task of talking the students around from activity to activity and getting to know the students.
 
The day started with Carlina's icebreakers which I thought worked really well as planned. Through this we were able to split the class into groups successfully and branch of to each activity. Carlina and I took our group off to the first activity which was the shootout. Throughout the day we spoke to the students and got to know them personally, the students themselves were shy but once they completed their first excersize they began to become more sociable.

We arrived at the second excersize which was the green screen excersize. The great thing about this task was that everone got a chance to participate in the excersize. My only regret is that I did not have a go myself as I thought the concept of the excerize was brilliant funny and enteraining. There was a techincal hitch erlier in the day with the green screen excersize. Which meant that we were running 15 minutes early so showed the students inside our gatehouse/broadcast sweet then basqued in the sun I have to admit the girls were hard to talk to but I got to speak to a few of them about their career plans and reasurred them not to worry as university can be quite a scary place but when recieving that level of education but in encouraged them to give university a try by saying that it would equips them with the right skills to progress into a working enviroment in future.
 
The whole day ran  very smoovly for Carlina and I we went into the third excerisze and made the most of it we each were assigned a team as team leaders as we split into groups and we drew pictures in turns it was this excersize that I think the students enjoyed the most Patrick was phenominal in leading the excersize and his talkative ways encouraged the girls and Max (the only male student in the group) to participate.
 
After that we enjoyed a spot of lunch on the grass followed by the talk by the industry professionals.

I thought the day went really well for Carlina and I's group and we were united in making decisions in terms of leadership on the day. I was happy to have been working with her for two reasons                              

1.  Her skills when it came to engaging with the students helped me a lot on the day
2. Nonetheless I was happy to have another person with me on the walkaround as it eased the pressure on me

If I were to do the walkaround again I would definatly choose Carlina as a partner to help me lead the students again.

Media Event

Today I had to secure permission to use equipment and the venue for the media event using James Harris account, I logged onto Siso and filled out risk assessments. I contacted Carolyn Puddicombe and the health and safety officer  at the university Warren Cole. I also phoned and spoke to Tom Bradby who is the Head of Security at Bath Spa to notify him about the event . I filled out risk assessments for each of the proposed rooms and handed them into the main house, I then emailed Diane Sterling who is the person in charge of the SU at the university to make a reservation in our Student Union Bar for the college students on the day. whilst completing  the risk assessment forms the NE 101 lecture hall so I took pictures of the room. Below are the actual pictures in which I took during the risk assesment. 

Here is the list of equipment in which we will be using on the day.






Equipment list for the Event 8th April:





Here's an equipment list:





Sony PD175 (3)



Nikon D80 Camera Kit (2)



HAGUE TRIPOD TRACKING DOLLY D5



Monopod



Manfrotto 504



Clapper Board



416 Boom Microphone Kit



Boompole

Media Event

Today Our Class was given our second assessment of our core module which was...
To put on an event which would educate the BTEC level students from the City Of  Bath College about the media industry and its dynamics. 

We ourselves as a class could use any methods possible to appeal to the students such as filming workshops for the Students, The workshops would give the students an insight into the possible things within the subject that they could learn at university level, for example stopmotion/animation. The workshops would consist of filming excersizes which would encourage the students involved in and give the students hands on experience using the camera. There will be talks by industry professionals, who will educate the students about their personal journey into the media industry and give them future advice which will help with their chosen career paths. Using a budget we will have to work to a budget and plan the whole event/day on a step to step process there are three teams which will be helping to plan the event.

There will be three teams working on the project.

• Marketing Team

This team which will make Logos T-shirts and Banners and Goodiebags and other merchandise for the students to take away they will also be in charge of promoting the event in terms of adverising it

• Organisational Team

The organisational team will be in charge of formulating ideas for the day of the day of the event. They will also be in charge of  the paperwork and planning the activaties for everyone to be involved in.

• Technical team

The technical team will be in charge of  filming the excerizes and editing the work from the filming excersizes for the students to take away.

The event will be attended by two student ambassadors who will be there to meet and greet the students before accompanying them on the walkaround that day