Scene: Day in School

On Wednesday 16 September, Portchester students taking part in the Creative and Media Diploma made their way to their school to attend their diploma day which was to get them stuck into work to do with their 'Scene' project that they would be working on until December 2009.

We made our blogging sites, finding many mistakes and slip ups when we were attempting to write them or sign up as the school network would not let us onto most of the sites because of the blocks that the school has set up. I finally decided on using wix.com as it was easy to use, accessible and had the options that I wanted and needed. (I.E. - A, B and C), (C.T. - E)

Throughout the rest of the morning and up until lunch we all wrote our blogs on the Launch Day and Quadrophenia.

Once lunch was over we began to start planning for our panto, which we were to put on in December. We decided that we were going to do 'Aladdin' for our panto and then we began to decide on who was doing what. We assigned jobs such as; actors, director, music choosers, sound and lighting, backstage people, promoters, designers, costume, make-up and props designers and dancers. I decided that I was going to be in the marketing group and the music group. Over the coming weeks I am to design and create posters, tickets, programmes for the show and photographs (which are to be done throughout all weeks, to record the process of making the pantomime and then photographs of the actual performance so we can show our end result).

(I.E. - A, C, D and F), (C.T. - A, B, C and E), (T.W. - A, B, D and E), (S.M. - A and C).

Once that that task was completely and everyone was assigned job(s) we decided who was going to be eligible for the panto and began to contribute ideas toward promotion and actors. We went through many different ideas on who would be eligable for our pantomime and finally decided that it would be for all years (excluding year 11, as they were organizing and producing 'Lights, Camera, Action' but we finally decided that we would allow a few to help with backstage and technical things, as a large amount of the Creative and Media Technicians are year 11's). We decided that we were going to have an audition for anyone that wanted to take part on Tuesday 29 September. We read through our notes, making sure that we had everything that we needed that would help us with extremely basic planning over the next two weeks until we had our next meeting (as the Wednesday after we were going to Aspex Gallery and Portsmouth Museum).

(C.T. - A, B and C), (T.W. - A, B, E and F), (S.F. - A, B, C and F), (E.P. - A, C, D and E).

Once all planning was over we ended the school day at normal school times.