Here is a link to the Comic relief website http://www.comicrelief.com/ and a link to the red nose day website  http://www.rednoseday.com/
their slogan is Do something funny for money
Comic relief is a British charity that was founded in the UK in 1985 by a comedy script writer called Richard Curtis and Alexander Mendis because of the famine in Ethiopia. The main part of Comic relief is Red nose day which is a telethon held in march. Comic relief is one of the two high profile telethon events held in Britian, the other one being Children in need annually held in November.
Comic relief was launched live on Noel Edmund's late, lat ebreakfast show on BBC 1, on christmas day 1985 from a refugee camp in Sudan. The BBC is responsible for the live television campaign. Sainsburys sells merchandise on behalf of the charity. I think Comic relief is aimed at everypone, i think that they do different things for different aged people and different genders that they will like. To get children to take part in Comic relief they sell red noses and stickers so you can decorate your nose and name it and they sell lots of merchandise. To get adults to take part they put on popular tv shows on the telethon especially for red nose day and they get popular bands to sing on there. Also they get school to participate by doing a school challenge like last year our school did a a sponsered mile run.

performance at Browick school

On the 30th November we are going to Browick school in Wymondham. There are two groups doing the performance for them. I am in one of the groups that are doing the performance. In my group is : Me, Holly, Hollie, Elliot and Bradley and we are doing our performance about the redcross and we are trying to teach the year 3's about sharing and donating money to charity and how the RedCross help people recover from natural disasters and help them through their problems. Before the performances we will be doing workshops with the children and the groups that are doing the TV ad will be leading it.

02/11/10

Yesterday we did performance first and we practised for the performance at that junior school in Wymondham. Also the TV ad groups practised the workshops they are going to do with the children. After Performnce we did half of Artefact. We got our Sketch books finally! Me, Holly and Hollie put some of our work into our new sketch books. Half way through artefact this woman called Jackie came to do a workshop with us. She talked to us about video journals and how to make one and other facts about camera's and she gave us lots of tips to help us. After lunch we looked at programmes like the peep show and x-factor, we looked at how formatted they are and how they use the camera's. After that we were able to use the camera's, we had to get in groups of three and film an interview like x-factor. I was the camera-man, Holly was the interviewer and Hollie was the interviewee. It was fun! :D
she gave ideas on how to produce a good show

• you need a good idea and you need to develop it with thought and research
• You need to be full of creative ideas and capacity to make it happen
• See a clear angle to film or programme, make sure it's evident and accessible to audience
• Able to format the angle to create a programme with good narrative arc.
• Responsible for scripting and make sure they can steer that format throughout the film.
• Usually responsible for the edit.
• Responsible for paperwork needed for production: health and safety, consent form, Risk assessment etc.
• Able to forward think and see issues before they arise.
• Good understanding of media law, compliance, ethics, balance and a general sound editorial judgement
• Responsible for sticking to the budget for the programme.

19/10/10

Today so far we have been designing our shoe that we have to make for Hemstock's jewellers. We had lots of idea's like we could make a high heeled shoe/converse/hi-top. Because we have to make our shoe link in Hemstock's we decided to put loads of gems around the heel and around the edge of our shoe. We made a moodboard and put on pictures of high heels, converses, hi-tops and high heeled converses. Also we are going to have laces and put like old rings around the laces and thread in beads.

Open

Last Tuesday we went to open in Norwich for a Media conference. There were 5 different segments, Music, Dance, Performance, Graphic design and Animation. I didn't find music and dance very interesting because it didn't relate to me. Performance was interesting because the speakers weren't just telling us about their life stories but they were asking each other questions and they were chatting with each other rather than just telling a story. I found Graphic Design and Animation interesting because that is what i would like to do when i leave school. They said how they got into working in graphic design and animation. When i leave school i'm going to do media at city college and then go on to do media at Bournemouth university. :)

Artefact

Today we went into Wymondham town and first me, hollie and holly went into hemstocks jewellers with another group and we filled and interview we had with the two ladies that worked behind the counter. We asked them about what type of things do they sell, what people buy from there, what are the jewellery and gifts made from, who provides the stock, when did hemstocks start and other questions like that. on thing we forgot to say about the artefact unit was about the shoe we will be designing to go in the shop. But the interview with the workers in the shop went quite quickly.

Campaign

After Me, Hollie and Holly went to the jewellers we went to the Red Cross Charity Shop. When we got into the shop we talked to the man who worked there. We then went into the office upstairs and he gave us lots of leaflets, posters and information. We then filmed the interview with him where we asked him about what kind of donations they get given, how much of the donations can they sell, what people come to the charity shop and some other questions. Also Holly told him how we were going  to campaign, what we were going to campaign about and that we are going to bring the donations that we get at the school into the charity shop. He told us that the red cross charity wasn't advertised much and people don't know much about them but they do a lot more than other people think, he gave us an example which was whenever a fire engine goes out, a red cross van goes out with it and has spare clothes and things to sleep in and they do loads more.