Day Three

Day 3

Writing and Filming


What did we do today?

Today, we were split into our reading and filming groups and were sent to different rooms. Group 1 (the filming group), went into the studio where they prepared for the interviews and learnt a few camera and audio skills. Group 2 (Writing group), on the other hand, began to develop some of our writng pieces from Day 2. During our first session, Michael brought us in some poetry about trains by John Betjamen and we read these poems as a group. After this, we began to continue with our story writing and started on our own London underground poetry.

What did we learn?

In Group 2, we learnt how to read, analyse and intepret poetry, in particular, the train poetry written by John Betjamen a famous English poet. In addition, we also learnt how to develop our reading and writing skills in order to improve our own stories and poetry pieces.

In Group 1, we learnt more on how to use film equipment and adjust these devices to correctly conduct our interviews. We also learnt about the procedures involved with film-making and carried out our own practice interviews.

What did we find most fun and interesting?

Discussing as part of a group was really fun and sharing ideas was really helpful at getting to understand poetry. Making up our own characters and stories was fun to do and took a lot of imagination. Also, using the film  eqiupment was really fun to use and practice with!