Tanya Burr's blog (skin care tag) : http://tanyaburr.co.uk/?blog=blogs/archive/category/skincare/index.aspx
Zoella's (Zoe Sugg) Blog (hair product review): http://www.zoella.co.uk/2013/09/my-new-favourite-hair-product.html
On both of these blogs they both maintain a friendly and informal tone. Both reviewing wither new products that they've been using or products that they've been loving for ages, they come with an experienced opinion on both products.
Through looking at these, I feel that it would be easier for me to write about a skin care product that I have been using for a while and that I would reccommend, then maybe do an additional post about how I apply my makeup on a daily basis.
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Guided Study Activities- Graphology
"Find examples of iconic and symbolic signs, explaining their use and the context in which they occur."
The Twitter logo can be noticed and recognised by near enough everyone and if this is new to you, where have you been sincee 2006?
Twitter is now the most used social networking site along side Facebook and Instagram.
We live in a world full of images, objects and artifacts that delight, excite and stimulate our visual senses. Logos help represent all that the marketing of an entity has promised in a single visual statement. The "Bird in a blue sky" logo for twitter immediately says "efficient, modern, simplistic" and more. The logo speaks volumes about an entity without needing to say a word.
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Twitter is now the most used social networking site along side Facebook and Instagram.
We live in a world full of images, objects and artifacts that delight, excite and stimulate our visual senses. Logos help represent all that the marketing of an entity has promised in a single visual statement. The "Bird in a blue sky" logo for twitter immediately says "efficient, modern, simplistic" and more. The logo speaks volumes about an entity without needing to say a word.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Fairy Tale Ideas
Snow White: leaving home then moving in with 7 random men
women have no self confidence (talking mirror)
Beauty and The Beast
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland:
The Little Mermaid: Disobeying your parents gets you what you want
all disney princesses in one house, all freaking out
snow white can't handle being around all the girls
sleeping beauty cant sleep
cinderella's OCD kicking in
goldilocks
repunzel
jazmin
women have no self confidence (talking mirror)
Beauty and The Beast
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland:
The Little Mermaid: Disobeying your parents gets you what you want
all disney princesses in one house, all freaking out
snow white can't handle being around all the girls
sleeping beauty cant sleep
cinderella's OCD kicking in
goldilocks
repunzel
jazmin
Monday, 4 November 2013
Tips For Writing A Short Story
Helpful links:
•When developing your characters, make sure you know way more about them than you're ever going to write about, this allows you to write about them properly.
•Decide who is telling the story; First, Second or Third person.
• Start small, and go for detail.
• Learn to look and use objects around you for inspiration.
• Try to use suggestiveness and gestures to give a sense of character and story.
• Research : avoid making factual errors when you describe an object or place.
• Beginnings and endings should have a powerful impact – try to revisit them.
• Work on your dialogue - by listening whenever you are with other people.
• Read some of your writing out loud - How does it sound?
• Get straight into the story. Something has to happen.
• Look at a critical point in someone’s life or focus on heightened moments.
• Make sure the story is carefully observed and quickly told.
• Leave the reader thinking - perhaps with a surprise twist.
- Write a Catchy First Paragraph
- Develop Your Characters
- Choose a Point of View
- Write Meaningful Dialogue
- Use Setting and Context
- Set up the Plot
- Create Conflict and Tension
- Build to a Crisis or a Climax
- Deliver a Resolution
•When developing your characters, make sure you know way more about them than you're ever going to write about, this allows you to write about them properly.
•Decide who is telling the story; First, Second or Third person.
• Start small, and go for detail.
• Learn to look and use objects around you for inspiration.
• Try to use suggestiveness and gestures to give a sense of character and story.
• Research : avoid making factual errors when you describe an object or place.
• Beginnings and endings should have a powerful impact – try to revisit them.
• Work on your dialogue - by listening whenever you are with other people.
• Read some of your writing out loud - How does it sound?
• Get straight into the story. Something has to happen.
• Look at a critical point in someone’s life or focus on heightened moments.
• Make sure the story is carefully observed and quickly told.
• Leave the reader thinking - perhaps with a surprise twist.
Thursday, 24 October 2013
How Am I Finding English?
The first bit of this half term went rather slowly, but that's expected since we were covering the basic grammar techniques.
Nevertheless, it was definitely helpful to go over grammar that I haven't been taught recently. Although, I'm still bound to make gramatical errors, especially with the lack of autocorrect on this blog.
We've also been looking at how to link two texts together using linguistic methods to help us out with out exam in the summer. Mr Clifford came up with a very creative idea; to plant different texts all around the room and then to trust us with balls of string, and link each text with another. This then made the class room into a very interesting maze, looking something like this:
So far I can say that I've been enjoying English Language and I'm almost looking forward to starting the coursework since that sounds interesting. If we have more lessons that involve turning the classroom into a maze, we'd be onto a winner.
Nevertheless, it was definitely helpful to go over grammar that I haven't been taught recently. Although, I'm still bound to make gramatical errors, especially with the lack of autocorrect on this blog.
We've also been looking at how to link two texts together using linguistic methods to help us out with out exam in the summer. Mr Clifford came up with a very creative idea; to plant different texts all around the room and then to trust us with balls of string, and link each text with another. This then made the class room into a very interesting maze, looking something like this:
So far I can say that I've been enjoying English Language and I'm almost looking forward to starting the coursework since that sounds interesting. If we have more lessons that involve turning the classroom into a maze, we'd be onto a winner.
Inspiration For My Story
My class were given a task to write a Halloween themed flash fiction. Due to the word count being 500 words, we had to be exta creative with out writing and make every word count. Mine however, is actually under the word count but because it had to be a short story I didn't see this as a problem.
The story had to be written to suit years 7-9 and was then entered into the school's flash fiction competition. By using different linguistic methods such as; lexis, pragmatics and grammar, I hope that my story fits to all that read it.
I wrote my story about being in the dark because the dark is actually a fear of mine. I thought that this would help me write an accurate story well enough so that the reader feels my fear, too. This is because being scared of it myself I could then write about all of the elements and factors of the dark that make me scared of it; the way it makes me feel, how it takes away one of your senses making you feel highly vulnerable.
The story had to be written to suit years 7-9 and was then entered into the school's flash fiction competition. By using different linguistic methods such as; lexis, pragmatics and grammar, I hope that my story fits to all that read it.
I wrote my story about being in the dark because the dark is actually a fear of mine. I thought that this would help me write an accurate story well enough so that the reader feels my fear, too. This is because being scared of it myself I could then write about all of the elements and factors of the dark that make me scared of it; the way it makes me feel, how it takes away one of your senses making you feel highly vulnerable.
Monday, 30 September 2013
Text A Analysis
Text A
'This is a transcript of four boys playing on a computer game. Andrew is playing, the others are watching.'
From text A I can see that Ben is the bossiest out of the four boys present, we can see this because he likes to use imperative verbs phrases such as 'no shoot through that' and 'throw your light sabre'.
Andrew is quite clearly concetrating on the game as he seems to pause a lot more than the other boys when talking 'I can kill myself (.) observe (.) now (.) way number one'. Andrew also knows what he's doing as he says 'no this is what i do every time' when rejecting Ben's instructions on how to play the game.
We don't really hear much of David and Carl. David seems to observe the game a lot more than Ben and doesn't really have many suggestions. However, through David's sentence, we can see that the boys aren't really thinking much about what they are saying as he has repetiton and a pause all in one sentence. ' the machine gun (.) the machine gun'.
Carl seems to feel comfortable around his friends as he jokingly insults Andrew by calling him a 'fatty' whilst laughing with David.
This text helps indicate how the spoken word differs depending on the person and the company, and it also demontrates that spoken language is unrehearesed whereas written isn't, this is then backed up with the amount of pauses that are written in this text.
'This is a transcript of four boys playing on a computer game. Andrew is playing, the others are watching.'
From text A I can see that Ben is the bossiest out of the four boys present, we can see this because he likes to use imperative verbs phrases such as 'no shoot through that' and 'throw your light sabre'.
Andrew is quite clearly concetrating on the game as he seems to pause a lot more than the other boys when talking 'I can kill myself (.) observe (.) now (.) way number one'. Andrew also knows what he's doing as he says 'no this is what i do every time' when rejecting Ben's instructions on how to play the game.
We don't really hear much of David and Carl. David seems to observe the game a lot more than Ben and doesn't really have many suggestions. However, through David's sentence, we can see that the boys aren't really thinking much about what they are saying as he has repetiton and a pause all in one sentence. ' the machine gun (.) the machine gun'.
Carl seems to feel comfortable around his friends as he jokingly insults Andrew by calling him a 'fatty' whilst laughing with David.
This text helps indicate how the spoken word differs depending on the person and the company, and it also demontrates that spoken language is unrehearesed whereas written isn't, this is then backed up with the amount of pauses that are written in this text.
Thursday, 19 September 2013
I FOUND IT!
I chose English Language for a few reasons, one being that English has always been one of my stronger subjects throughout my school life. It's also reassuring that 40% of this course is coursework, because I'm prone to freaking out in an exam. English Language also fitted in nicely with my other subjects (Psychology and Law), so I'm hoping that I'll have grammar-perfect essays all round!
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