A diary of sheepish events

Day 1:

16 Year 9 boys were asked to meet in a Drama room by Mrs Leach. We were told we were meeting a famous artist, Jill Carter. We all introduced ourselves and said something that we owned. We were shown a suitcase with some objects in - toys. We then split into 2 smaller groups. Some people dropped out and then we had 2 small groups. 

Day 2:

Quest 2 met up with Jill in Mrs Leach’s office. We talked about what we wanted to achieve from the project. Jill showed us some sheeps heads and we thought that these would be really good. We then decided what we wanted to take pictures of and things that we wanted to video. We then started walking around the school ad considered using altered perspectives by using a road side mirror. 

Day 3:

We decided that we wanted to take the sheeps head masks to the White Horse because then we could have them interacting with real sheep! One of the sheep even wanted Eden’s number!! We were pretending that we were part of the real sheep on the hill. We crawled across the top of the hill and it looked really cool when we saw the video of us! Even if we did go the wrong way!  When we arrived back at school we went back to the office and talked about what we had achieved on that day. 

Day 4:

We all met up again in Mrs Leach’s office and were thinking about where we wanted to go today. We were thinking of lots of places and then Eden said “How about Bratton Woods” We all thought that this would be a really good idea and all got into the mini-bus. When we arrived we started walking up the road and saw someone’s house and opposite we saw loads of old cars. We thought it would be really cool if he would let us in but unfortunately he wasn’t there at this time. We thought we would see if he was in on the way back. We carried onto the woods and then noticed that a dog was following us. He followed us for the whole day!! We were using toy guns today and were pretending we were part of a mafia. We then saw the paradise falls and it was awesome!! 3 of the sheep decided they would venture into the water! After this we started making our way to a rope swing in the woods! We all had a really good time playing around and running around the woods. After this we realised that we were quite short on time so decided to stroll back to the mini-bus. When we walked past the old cars we thought we would get a quick picture with the sheep sat in front of an old car. We then saw that the owner of the cars was in and then he invited us in. We were looking around and he was telling us all about the cars. We thanked him for letting us in his garage and he said that we are more than welcome to come back even if he wasn’t there!!! We then made our way back to school.

Day 5:

We were told to meet in the office a little earlier today.  We arrived at 12.30 and there was a man in there, and some sandwiches! We were then told to be really nice to him because he was the person that gave the project £1000. If it wasn’t for him there would be no Quest 2! We had to tell him what the project was about, what we had brought to the project, what he liked/disliked about the project and how it was better/different to normal lessons.

Day 6:

We met in the art room today and were looking through all of the videos and were seeing what videos were good and which videos were bad. We put them into separate folders and whichever videos/pictures were bad decided we had to refilm them.

Day 7:

We went back to the White Horse and started to refilm some of the bad videos. We also had some new ideas that we thought would work really well. We met some new people. They were African and were praying at the White Horse we started talking to them and they were telling us about Genesis and how the world was created.

Day 8:

On Friday morning we were told that Jill was coming into school in the afternoon. We decided that we would begin the editing ready for the presentation in September. A very busy afternoon and lots of blogging!!

Day 9:

The last day we are having to prepare with Jill! Lots and lots and lots of jobs to be done. Editing, posters, stories, blogging, drawing.  Me and Jacob edited together. We had to do the editing for Bratton Woods and the White Horse. After a few technical problems we realised that I was doing something wrong and I was blaming the programme! Woops!!  After we realised the technical problems the film fitted together really well. We were going to edit them together and then realised that they would be better separate. Quest 1 joined us for the afternoon, lets not go there!!!

Will Kettley

July 2011