Day two

Day: Tuesday
Who: Paul Sutton
Where: MR8
Time: 10-6

Today we started on time with a game where in pairs you had to touch different body parts together, then we played, run, stop, jump and clap, like usual swapping the actions with the juxtaposed word.

We were then briefly introduced to living newspapers, I already knew about these including their history and influence/purpose. We were presented with a news story about job contracts and hours from the BBC and were asked to create a living newspaper for the story, I suggested using brechtian signs and potentially essence machine movements along side music and a news reporter we tried this and found it worked, we juxtaposed our serious piece with dolly partons 9-5 playing over the top.

Once we had seen everyone's living newspapers Paul showed us C and Ts versions including videos on how to make them. There were several videos and we watched 6 of them including 5 rules for creating a living newspaper.

The rules were;
1: be funny
2: be direct
3: juxtapose
4: agitate
5: let the facts speak for themselves

The majority of the groups had included all of these things instinctively anyway and I thought the videos were aimed at primary school children instead of our age which felt very patronising.

We were then asked to write down everything that annoyed us on a strip of paper on the floor once we had done that we got ten ticks which translated to votes for others agitations. Once everyone had voted we had a conversation about the most ticked which ended up being liars and ignorance, this Paul said would make the undercurrent of our living newspapers, it would affect our editorial decisions when creating our own.

We then broke for lunch.

When we came back we got into groups and looked at news stories that are present and local to northampton. My group looked at the hauntings of northampton, lauren found an app that could simulate ghosts, we then spent two hours playing around with the app and figuring it out, it was really stressful and we had to work really hard, however, the end result was amazing!

We created two videos that were set up as interviews, using real stories and reports that had happened in and around northampton town, we then dramatised the interview and put it in our ghost App, it looked really affective and was well worth the two hours of stress! It also met all of the criteria for a 'good' living newspaper and followed the methodology set up by Paul.

We then had a conversation about what we thought about the activity and it sparked lots of confusion about what we were actually being marked on and how we were being marked. Hayley then came and attempted to clear it up, however, just like us she didn't know what our task was, so we came to the conclusion we would write one ourselves tomorrow.

We were then set one final task to do on the way home, to create a photo story and to the narrate the photos with dramatised versions of what the camera saw. Doing this was difficult due to driving home back to kettering however I got some really important images that spoke volumes in themselves. With my camera voice over the top they work really well on my map.