Adverts!

In today's visual communication lesson we learnt all about advertisements and how adverts affect peoples opinions on a particular object. For example, to begin the lesson Suzzie gathered us around the interactive board showing us a number of different adverts shown in the Uk. These ranged from car adverts to adverts promoting drinks (tango) etc. Then our task was to arrange ourselves into pairs and to think of an advert we enjoy watching and then to explain to the class what we think the advert is trying to promote. We also had to say why we thought it worked so well or not so well, what we liked the most about it and what screen shots we particularly thought were engaging to the audience. For our advert we chose the diary milk chocolate advert (eyebrow dance. We thought this was a good advert to show as it engages the audience straight away as you do not know immediately what is going to happen. The advert is also very funny and un-usual which again catches peoples attention, therefore we thought it was a good advert to advertise dairy milk chocolate as once you have watched it, you feel the erge to go buy a dairy milk chocolate bar.

Guest Speaker 6- Nick Bennett

Nick Bennet who is the principal of Gower college in Swansea took the lecture for our what is education module this week. The lecture was based on an overview of further education in Wales.We were given a number of statistics which were interesting to see. For example, 20% of further education students are full time, where as 80& are part time. Following on from this, we learnt all the key factors within the Welsh Government Program of September 2011 and how improving welsh skills can increase employment opportunities. Overall, we were given a brief outline but detailed enough to understand the factors and priorities for further education.

Guest Speaker 5- Mike Day

For today's what is education? module, we were taught a number of topics relating to education. For example, its definition, goal, objective, policy and strategy. Firstly, we were given background information on what education policy reflects upon and what education is actually for? Branching on to this, questions such as should education be selective and why is education policy needed? were apposed. Day further went onto to explain who, when, where and why education policy is developed? Unfortuantly, we were unable to complete the whole power-point slides as we run out of time. However, we were told that the slides were going to put up on moodle for us to make further notes on this particular topic.

Nostalgia

In today's lesson we had to think of an emotion and try to portray these emotions through pictures/photos we took around the uni campus. I chose to study the emotion nostalgia or loneliness. We were given 30minutes to have a walk round the campus in pairs to collect any photographs we thought matched our chosen emotion. Once we arrived back at the class, we had to upload our photo's onto the computer and onto our blogs, ready to share with the class in the following session. My 6 chosen photo's are listed below:

Guest Speaker- Graham Allen

For today's lecture we were taught by the enviromental manager of swansea university. The topic he taught us wsas on "Education for suitable development". Firsty, we learned about what coroporate responsibity is and what does it invlove? For example-Coroporate responsibity in the education sector. We further went on to learn about digression- the benefits of growth. Foloowing on from this we touched upon GDP and the fundamental priciples of sustainable development.

suzzie-Metaphors/ i have a dream

To start of today's lesson we continued with our photo montages for the first 15minutes or so. Then we went round the class discussing and explaining what we had cut out and why? For example, what purpose or meaning it has to you? Following on from this, we were given a number of pictures which all had a metaphoric story behind them. Our task was to work out in groups of 3 what the metaphor behind the picture was. Then we watched a short clip to end the lesson called i have a dream, where we had to take some notes on any metaphor's we came across in the american speech.

Creativity with Suzzie

In today's visual communication lesson we were concentrating closely on the assignment as there has been some confusion. Firstly, suzzie went through the brief with us to make sure we all understood what we had to do and how the mark scheme works etc. Shortly after, we carried out a small task in which we had to write down memories we have from childhood, could of been negative or positive or even both. We then had to crumble up the piece of paper and throw it across the room for another person in the class to read out.Once everyone had a different piece of paper, as a class we discussed the differences or similarities of what people wrote down. After this, we were put into groups of 3 and given a A3 piece of paper and different resources such as newspapers, magazines etc where we had to cut out what we though were our sense of place. We didn't quite finish this so we are carrying on with this in the next session.