Wednesday 28 November 2007

Public opinionis currently sharply divided with regarded to GM crops. Those in favour of the new technology believe that GM crops provide enviromantal, economic and health benifits.

Monday 26 November 2007

Farmer McGinty and his story

Famer McGinty, is seen here striding around his farm; a man with a mission, a fighter and strindent campaigner for organic farming. His story is one of courage and resilience, in his native, Herefordshire and now just strolls around with cows thinking about what is going to happen next. Battling against his almost impossible task as he is one of the very few people who are tryingto keep his buissnes alive; the buissnes he has been running for almost 15 years, the buissnes he has had so much success in, but it now may be the tome to depart from his beloved farm.


His farm has started so many new beginings and given him so much money by selling his lovley vegetables. His farm started when he bought the land at the age of 20 and then bought several machines and animals. He, started his farm 10 years later and opened his shop 5 years after that and has made hundreds of pounds throughout his farming life and now battling against the supermarket he has now only a bit of focus on his farm, but the question is :will he win.

By Alexander

Friday 23 November 2007

A Slice of life - 23rd november 07

Today we were filming our offices. The solicitor was ill so we filmed what we were going to show him or her it was really fun and I finished the trailer it looked cool we had a video camera and were filming a tour to show the solicitor.

hannah

Monday 19 November 2007

Skills

Skills We have learnt!!
Our whole class have had loads of fun doing our mantle we have really adapted to our different roles. This has taught us a greater understanding of later life and has also been teaching us maths and English all in one lesson. It is a great value of life to make us smarter and the lessons are fun we get to put our tables into offices and we've learnt lots of skills like; doing blogs, what it's like in a company, how to make a documentary, our communication skills, persuasive language and a whole lot more. The experience is great it's like being grown ups, when were kids.



From Zoe Leslie and Annabel Newton
Good bye!

Annabel and Zoe's latest news

Latest news ...
Our latest update is about how Mr McGinty has sunk into hot water. He has written to every one he knows that can help. But we are not sure what he can do now to save his little farm. We have lately received a letter from the solicitors of Pesco's telling us we have to be much more positive about Pesco's. They are threatening to sue us if we do not wish to proceed in completely changing our documentary. It's not our fault though, we were told to make a documentary Trevor was worried that esco would ruin his business; he sells food produce. We got a long way through planning the documentary, when we got the horrid letter from Pesco's solicitor. Now we have to do another fantactic documentary. If we don't do a good job on it will never ever come out into the store or on the telly. So now our whole company is working very hard for a good solution to be found.

This is Annabel and Zoe
reporting for a slice of life.
Good bye!!!

Friday 16 November 2007

Interview

Today we had a representative from Tesco's who came to answere some questions ;his name was Norman Smith he came instead of Mark Smith because Mark was buisy. We pushed Norman to his absalute limit asking him an complete aray of questions such as:


Did you think the local people would coplain?
Why do you need yet another Tesco's?
What do you think will be the consequences will be?
Is the building going to be eco-friendly?
Have you had any complaints?


He answered these questions with great afect and astonished us all by coming up with superb and spectacular answeres. Unfortunatly he left quickly to go to a confrence.

Wednesday 14 November 2007

Dear team,
I hope you are working hard on the projects. The location map has nearly been completed and the scripts are ready for editing. I have been pleased with the production team's timetable and we will be ready to start soon.
Thank you
Miss Teague
Director

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Interview with Pesco
Interviewer: What are you going to do to Trever mcgitey's farm?
Pesco Spokesperson: We will compete against the petition and we will bulid our super market .
Interviewer: Why do you want a super market?
Pesco spokesperson: For the money.
Interviewer: What just for the money have to be kiding me.
Pesco spokerperson: Yes we so we can make money we think that it has great business potential.
Interviewer: Thank you very much.

by Connor

Monday 12 November 2007

Today we have done today: We ve written an action plan. We have just started to plan the new documentary. We have thought of questions to answer in our documentary. We watched a documentary to help us plan our new one. We have written an Itinrary. This afternoon we are going to: Start writing the script, trailer, interviews, Storyboard and we are going to write back to trevor Mcginty.
write new scripts,
plan storyboard,
design graphics,
write back to Trevor McGinty,
Research,
Arguments,
Find location,
Talk to local council,
Set up pre-production time table,
Map proposed site,
Contact local opinions:-)

Friday 9 November 2007

Recently at a slice of life we have had a letter from Trevor McGinty and he's not very happy with tesco building a new supermarket. He has asked s if we can make a documentary about it he thinks this should be dealt wih now, So we have had a vote and we are going to make it.

We have been running the company for 36 years and we are really successful with all we have been doing within the company has been really successful we have recently won an award for the most recent documentary we have done here at a slice of life. We have recently set up a website that keeps us up to date and it has all our infotrmation on it
Recently at a slice of life we have had a claim from Trevor McGinty to make a documentary about pescos, trying to take over his farm/shop and ruin his crops

Tuesday 6 November 2007

A slice of life

We make documentaries for other companies to buy, we have recently had a buyer called Chris Pearson. He is from the BBC and he came to a slice of life, to see if he wanted to buy one of our documentaries. Whilst he was here we showed him some pitches that we had made he was very impressed and he is going to sort out the deals with us to buy one of our documentaries that we had made.



from jack

Creating a presentation - Our Top Tips

1. Make sure your background and writing are colourful.
2. Use interesting vocabulary and varied puntuation.
3.Make sure your voice is clear and expresive.
4. Use outstanding openers.
5. Repeat key words in your powerpoint.
6.Be positive about what you write.
7 Use persuasive language, questions and give reasons to back up what you say.
8.Remember - practice prevents poor performance.
written by Libby, Sam, Courtney, Hannah C, Hannah K, Alexis

Monday 5 November 2007

Kyle and Annabelle!*!*!*!*!

A SLICE OF LIFE

We are finishing our pitches and power points a day before Chris Portman comes to listen to our finished pitches!!!

On the power point we have key words and in the script we have all the success criteria as well as powerful, strong adjectives, verbs and good sentence starters!!!!!!!!!!!!


From
Kyle and
Annabelle !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!

Thursday 1 November 2007

Our Sales Pitch

Chris Pearson came to town and advised us on our pitches. He thought they were quite good and will be coming back soon.