Scene: Launch Day

On Wednesday 9 September 2009 all students participating in the Creative and Media Diploma, Level 2 made their way to Fareham College for their launch day. They made their way to a hall where they met the adults that were to be running the two year course, got their uniforms and went given a quick talk to; the welcome them to the diploma.

After the short introductory section all students and adults made their way to the college's LRC (Learning Resource Centre) where they were to participate in a challege in their schools---all competing for first place. We were all given a brief which listed tasks that needed to be completed. We were assigned jobs and all split into our groups to complete our tasks.

Our task was to complete different forms of promotion to get people to watch 'Quadrophenia' at the Ashcroft Arts Centre, who were our company for the morning with their host, Annabelle Cook. Quadrophenia is a rock opera that we were seeing the following night at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.

I was in the 'Designers' group and helped Ben Knight design the CD cover (C.T. - A, C, E and F) for the soundtrack of the production and I also helped Lewis Benfield with the design (mainly the colour scheme) of a promotional poster (C.T. - A, C and F). I also wrote up various short reviews on the production to show the aimed audience that the show was excellent and was worthy of watching. To do this I researched already written reviews to see what kinds of things people had written about the performance before I created my own reviews. (I.E. - B, C and D)

(Throughout this section: S.M. - A, B, E and F)

Once all work, from all three schools, was completed we were to present our work that we had all been working hard on throughout the morning. All presentations were spectacular and extremely impressive but only one school was to be the winner.

The winners were revealed by Annabella Cook and we were given first place, as we had stuck to the brief more than the two other schools had and we had completed all of the asked tasks.

We then left for lunch, still surprised and shocked from being named the winners as our presentation wasn't as best as it could've been as we had been focusing on the work and most of the presentation was improvised by our group director (Connor Gray).

Once lunch was over we all headed back to the hall where we had met in at the beginning of the day. We watched a showcase which had been put by students in the performing arts areas in the college. It included things such as; drama, dance, fashion, media and music.

The showcase was to help us look into different forms of art that we may not have usually looked at in the past.

Once the showcase was over we made our way to one of the art studios to talk about 'Quadrophenia'. We were given a task to write down things that we would look for in the opera, as we had to write a review on the performance after watching it. I worked in a group consisting of three students from Brune Park and a fellow student from Portchester Community School. I contributed many ideas to the group, also taking in ideas that other suggested, and then writing them down on our large piece of sugar paper that we had been handed. (T.W. - A, B, D and F) (C.T. - A)

As the showcase over-ran we did not have enough time to complete all of the planned work so we were to continue on with our work at our school in our next meeting, the following Wednesday.