Preparations For Festival 4 !

Today in the Creative and Media, in our groups we were all given tasks of what we had to do for the day. My group Music had to get the music and practice the dance for the festival and also set out meeting and rehearsal times for our Steel pans and DJing.

During first and second period we went into the hall and tried to remember the dance and practice it over and over again. We went over the first part of the dance which was the ballet music to a street dance, we only remembered this part of the dance and it was the beggining so we decided to focus on that part and get it perfect or at a good enough standard of performance.
we also tried to come up with some new dance moves to fill in the blanks.

After lunch we came back together to try and finish off any coursework that needs to be finished off only if we have no more work to do on the festival at the moment.

At 4th period Ms Williams came back. With me with her we discussed about the rehearsal times for the Steel Pans and DJing fo that they can be ready for next week so we have enough time before the festival.

We decided to start the DJing next week on Tuesday so we have about 3hrs of rehearsal or more. And Steel Pan will start in about two weeks or after holidays to get a full 3hrs of rehearsal so we know what we're doing.

Meeting At Gold Coast (4th February 11)

On that Friday night at the Gold Coast in Brixton (opposite tesco), we met up together with Ms Williams (Head Of Performing Arts), Betsey (Production Manager), and Kayce (A Fellow Student) and Me (Production Manager). We went there to have a discussion about the venue and if it'll be available to use, but unfortunately the manager Kwaku didnt show up and apparantly he had a funeral that he had to attend to...

We still got to look around and take pictures of the spots were were going to have some Screenings, Photgraphy, Art, Dance, Drama and where the decks for DJing and the steel pans will be set out.

Preparations For Festival 3 !

Today in lesson we were put into groups to evaluate on our ideas for the festival. In the music group we came up with an action plan on what we're going to do, to get everything ready for the festival.

We planned on arranging meetings with the head of Music (Mr Fox)and Dance (Ms Shrubb)For some assitance in preparation for the festival by asking some of their groups to perform at our festival such as the Yr11 And Yr8 Steel Pans And Creative And Media Steel Pans and And the Dance on Stereotypes.

I made a 'To Do List' to have everything organised so we know what to do next according to our action plan :

Action Plans !
· Plan what’s going to happen during rehearsals and how it will be set out.

· For Yr11 Steel Pan and Creative And Media.
Get in contact with Mr. Fox to set out a date or day where they can rehearse the two or more songs that they will showcase at the festival.
Talk To Mr Fox On 2nd Feb 2011

Keep track on them and their sound

Set a day when we will be able to listen to them play and have a selection of the two good songs that sound appropriate for us before the deadline.

· Get in touch with Nigel from Point Blank DJ Course to give us about 2-3 weeks (2-3days)of extra rehearsals to get in the habit of knowing how to work the decks again.
Ms Williams – Email Tonight 1st Feb 2011

· Talk to Ms Shrubb about the music for the stereotype dance and get a copy of the CD to go over the dance a few times to refresh our memories.

We came up with these and decided to give a teacher a BRIEF of what we expect them to produce for our festival. On that same day i asked Ms Shrubb for a copy of the CD is the music of the dance.

*At the end of the day we decided to use The Gold Coast as our Venue for the festival. So on that upcoming Friday we had a scheduled meeting there to discuss if we could use the place for two days...*

The next day i decided to talk to Mr Fox about our festival and what we need for it to fill up. He agreed with giving us some rehearsal times and having his Yr11 and Yr8 steel pans for for us in the festival and he also agreed with the music choice and said ''no problem''.
I also recieved the CD from Ms Shrubb on the same day and gave both both Mr Fox and Ms Shrubb a copy of the brief so they know what we expect.