from peter sanders | Comment (1) | Mar 15, 2010

This blog is getting more and more fun to read and comment on by the minute! Excellent.

from Dunni and Lola | Comment (1) | Mar 13, 2010

Just to say that I have been reading like mad! I've been reading THE GIGGLER TREATMENT, THE OUTLAW VARJAK PAW AND DOUBLE ACT AND BAD GIRLS.

THE GIGGLER TREATMENT IS BY RODDY DOYLE

THE OUTLAW VARJAK PAW IS BY SF SAID

DOUBLE ACT AND BAD GIRLS IS BY JAQUELINE WILSON.


                                                                BLURB

THE GIGGLER TREATMENT:

"WHO ARE THE GIGGLERS?'' GOOD QUESTION. THE GIGGLERS LOOK AFTER CHILDREN. AND THEY DO IT VERY WELL.

DOUBLE ACT AND BAD GIRLS:

DOUBLE ACT:
WE'RE TWINS. I'M RUBY.SHE'S GARNET.WE'RE IDENTICAL. THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE WHO CAN TELL US APART...

AND MANDY,
WHO WANTS TO BE ONE OF THE

BAD GIRLS:

KIM'S GANG HAD

from aoife and muireann | Comment (0) | Mar 11, 2010

We've been to see an exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery in Soho.  One of the photographers in the exhibition we saw was called Anna Fox. We loved this one of her photographs and wondered if she changed the CURVES!

from Maggie and Olivia | Comment (1) | Mar 10, 2010

Just wanted to thank Madeline for a very interesting workshop. I had no idea how you could make a bad photo look so good, was a little disapointed that I had deleted photo's that hadn't come out to clear now  !!!! Jordon your work on your photo you did was great, the  way you covered the writing you didn't want to exactly the same background was  fab.

Using the RBG was a lot of fun especially seeing Luba and Mim with their blonde hair. Must confess I do need a lot more practice on the apple computer so will look forward to the next workshop.
Maggie

from aoife and muireann | Comment (3) | Mar 10, 2010

We did a workshop with Madeline on using photoshop. It was good fun.  I played with the CURVES tool and experimented with putting in and taking away different amouns of Red Green and Blue from my pictures. 

I'm going to upload the pictures here so you can see how differnt the photographs look when you change the levels of these coloirs.  In one of hte pictures, Alicia, we were able to make the wooded deck look much richer and more wood-like. In the original photo it was a bit too grey for me.

from nickcan | Comment (0) | Mar 9, 2010

I can't download my pictures! I don't have cables for my new camera...but i will try again today with a card reader.
I did enjoy last night - great to see so many pictures - including the one of Peter looking like the demon headmaster! You see the camera does lie! I suppose I'm still a bit old fashioned in my outlook so I'm not sure that we should be tweaking photo colour and the like...though its amazing to think what can be done. All those glamorous pictures of film stars and models, they must look as rough as me in reality!
Hopefully I took some lovely photos yesterday so will tweak them all so that you all look like Brad and Angelina!

from peter sanders | Comment (0) | Mar 8, 2010

Thanks so much to Madeleine for leading us from ignorance to enlightenment with photoshop (my ignorance, anyway). It was really good to see so many wonderful photos appearing from the group's cameras. Obviously lots of action over half term in the markets and elsewhere. I think the cameras have been and will continue to be a great asset to the whole project and I'm looking forward to the exhibition we'll have of all your work in the summer term (as long as Nile doesn't include his photoshopped image of me in it!).

If you couldn't make it to the workshop but have a full SD (memory) card you can give it to Nick or me and Madeleine will download your pics to free up space on your cameras so you can carry on snapping.

Just a reminder that the next photo workshop is on Monday 22nd and Madeleine thinks it would be good to have it in the same place (portico) as the facilities are so good.

from aoife and muireann | Comment (0) | Mar 6, 2010

I've been looking at film and video made by kids to get some ideas.  I love this project made here in East London by kids from a Pupil Referral unit. I think i've seen it before, or bits of it...It's called Beneath the Hood and it was made by Eelyn's production company!!

from aoife and muireann | Comment (0) | Mar 6, 2010

We wne tto see Alicein Wonderland in 3-D.  When you look at how it is filmed, and how the characters are made up and dressed, its easy to imaging the people who made the film having been to the portrait gallery: Look at these images - a bit similar?

from Dunni and Lola | Comment (2) | Mar 5, 2010

Catholics

Catholics are people who believe in Holy Mary and confession of sin to the priest. They go to Church and sit on a place called a Pew, they dance however they like to worship God. Some people dance in a  different of way to other people, they do communion where they riesteat br ead and drink wine. They drink wine from a place called the Chalice, the priest stands in a place called the Altar were he preaches the word of God.