At 7am on Thursday the media students attending the London Media Trip left Portchester Community School, made our way to Brune Park, then to Brookfield to pick up the other students, and teachers, that were attending the trip also. Once all were collected we headed off to London.
We arrived at our hotel on time and left our bags in an empty room, as our rooms were not ready yet. Once leaving our belongings, apart from our travel bags, in the room we got back on the coach and made our way around busy London to get to the BBFC. We a little bit late, due to our drivers not particularly knowing where they were going so we got a little lost.
When we finally arrived at the BBFC the man running the presentations was not the very happy, as they presentations had been set up for a certain time and the people he had assigned to run both rooms were not free when we got there, due to other work that had to be completed. When we got there we realised that not everyone would be able to fit into the presentation room so some had to head off to Covent Garden for some impromptu shopping.
Those of us that could get into the room were very interested to hear about the different things that influence the way that they classify certain films. We were shown various different clips from different films and, based on the information that we had been taught in the beginning of the workshop, we voted on the rating of the film... most of the time we disagreed with the actual rating of the film. For some reason the guy thought that we were 17 so some of the clips annoyed the teachers/supervisors, due to the content.
We left the BBFC and made our way to Covent Garden to meet up with the others who, unfortunately, couldn't join us for the presentation. We had a little bit of time to do some shopping and hang out with our new friends. We then made our way to Pizza Hut (which was underground), but they didn't have any disabled access so George had to go somewhere else, but Pizza Hut was very nice for us.
We then made our way to the Lyceum Theatre to see The Lion King, which was absolutely amazing! The performance included puppetry, shadow puppets, fantastic musical numbers that everyone knew the words to and sung along to and slight audience involvement, when the actors would come into the audience and fly their awesome puppets around in the air.
Friday 26th March
After last nights mishaps Miss Hoad phoned ahead to the London Film Academy to see if they had disabled access. On the way there they phoned back and informed her that they didn't so George went to Ascent 142, who are involved in film and TV post production.
To begin with we split into two groups and went to two different workshops, that later on we would also experience. We went to the cinematography and lighting workshop, whilst the other group had a workshop about airbrush make up. In the cinematography and lighting workshop we were able to sit under different lighting and see the difference on the camera. The man that led this workshop had worked with such greats as Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich and Johnny Depp. I really enjoyed talking with him as I am a huge fan of all of these actors.
In the airbrush make up workshop, that we did after lunch, some of us were able to get it done on us using stencils, eyeshadow, pieces of lace and the airbrush tool.
Planet Hollywood
Dinner was very noisy at Planet Hollywood, with people shouting and screaming when the camera went across them and their image appeared on the large flat screens that were scattered around the restaurant. Despite the craziness the food was fairly nice, but didn't sit well in most of our stomachs, making a few of us ill that night.
London Eye
Due to eating at Planet Hollywood only minutes before I felt too ill to go on the London Eye, so Miss Hoad and I stayed on the ground as the rest of the group went on the tall structure.
Saturday 27th March
Movieum - London Film Museum
We went to the Movieum, that was right next to the London Eye this morning after Olivia (my room mate) and I had woken up late and rushed around to pack our bags to put on the coach. It was a pretty hectic morning but it all calmed down as the day went on on our last day in London. They had a great selection of props from many famous films, such as The Borrowers and Alice in Wonderland, that we all got to take lots of pictures of. Here are some pictures of things that we saw at the museum:
BFi IMAX - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland was completely amazing! It was a really good choice of film to see at Britain's Largest Largest Screen. The screen itself was immense and the film was even better. I was sat in Row N and the view was very good, compared to those sat in the first few rows, where the 3D made them feel slightly sick.
We then got back on the coach after the film and made our way back home (:
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