Ravensbourne!

I had an amazing experience to Ravensbourne University and went on a 4 day summer course. There were 4 different skill sets you could take part in- Media, Graphics, Photography and Fashion. We were put into group's based on an era- 40's,50's, 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's and in each group contained several people of each of the skill sets.

 I was part of the 60's and many of my friends from my school were in the same group, which was incredibly lucky! We had to focus on Britain in the 60's e.g Twiggy, The Beatles, James Bond etc. but there were a few US events that we used as they were extremely significant in History.
Fashion

 

The people who did fashion had to create a design and create a dress in 3 days based on a 60's theme. Our group took a slightly modern twist with the lace but never the less, it was quite 60's.



Photography
The photography students had an hour photo shoot where they had to take 60's themed photo's and had the other days to plan and practice.

Graphics
Graphics students had to create a title sequence and the graphics for the video.

Media (The one I did)
The first day we found out about the equipment and had a tour of the amazing media facilities they have at Ravensbourne University (next to the O2). The next day we started to plan what we were going to film in the TV studio at the Uni. We only had an hour in there so we had to have a storyboard and be prepared. We also started to film the process of the fashion students making the outfit and  the interviews, however we did not really get to edit it, only post production did. The only thing I didn't agree with is that there weren't any of the other interview footage of the other skills in the video which we recorded, only fashion was put in but to be fair we did only have 3 minutes for it and a minute for the fashion video we had to record showing off the dress (however still filmed in a 60's style). So not everything could be in it. But oh well, it was a brilliant experience and I would do it again. If you want to see the finished video, click on the link below:

Ravensbourne - 60's group video



 

We did originally want to have a modern 60's theme with Dubstep 60's music etc, but as this was a competition between the era's they said we would lose points if we had a modern twist so we changed our idea.

This was the original fashion video song:

 

 

                                          

 

 



Also, while we were there someone asked us we wanted to help star in their advert for their coursework (for Dr. Martens) and we had nothing to do and said yes!  So this is us in a very cringey advert !!
 

                          
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