Directors: Jodie Ross, Laura-Beth Connolly and Tamara Smith
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner and (in a 1999 revision) Andrew Lippa. It is based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. Here are our students performing this much-loved musical to a packed Evolve theatre earlier this year.
Students have been engaged in the production of media content for skills development in Script Writing, Cinematography and Video Editing. They have researched, planned and produced videos for various projects, including exploring a narrative theme, The Box and TV advert production for Sony products. Students also explored the theme of ‘Identity’ where they drew upon how they feel about their own image, their ethnicity, their social groupings and their personal tastes. They then planned and produced a series of short films based on this.
The standard of work has been excellent, with students adapting to the restrictions presented by lockdown with limited access to locations and actors, and team work being adversely affected. However, all students have proved themselves to be able to work independently and use their initiative in making good out of a difficult situation.
The work produced this year shows genuine creativity and imaginative uses of available resources.
Stuart McConnell, media tutor
Dudley College of Technology hosted their 2022 Film Festival in June. The festival showcased shortlisted student work for horror productions, final projects, animation, short film and documentary. Winners of the categories were given awards based on the technical quality of their work along with scriptwriting, creativity and working to professional standards. The work showcased in the festival was as usual of a high standard. The college is very proud of what all students studying Creative Media have achieved this year.
For my final major project, I wanted to look at architecture as the starting point for my final work. I have developed interests in architectural shapes and forms and have recently begun to be fascinated more by the varying shapes of buildings.
Architecture has played an important part in our changing landscape. Where there were once many traditional buildings, new and modern almost futuristic shapes have begun to appear. Fashion often looks to architectural forms to inspire clothing designs and I felt that this would be an ideal concept to take forward successfully.
The main design work came from the photographs I took of the interior of the college as it had a lot of lines and form that I felt could inspire me. These formal elements, such as form, shape, line and colour were investigated through drawings and experimental fashion practical work aimed at the womenswear market.
From March 2020, Coronavirus has been something we have all had to deal with for almost two years now. When I was looking for themes for my FMP, I wanted to use a concept that really stood out to me and how I could interpret something typically ‘ugly’ into a beautiful design piece. This would not only create awareness of the horrible virus, and many of its kind, but it would give people the opportunity to look at the virus in an unusual way.
The close-up of the coronavirus had a beauty of its own which made me consider what other viruses looked like up close such as cancer and measles. The notion of enlarging small items to discover its hidden beauty became more interesting and I felt that this could be an opportunity to take forward into my final work.
I looked at several types of virus cells under a zoomed in microscope to see the beautiful patterns and lines it revealed. Looking at the differences between the cells and the different mutated cells gave me the opportunity to compare the patterns of each cell and work out the best designs for a surface pattern project. I tested ideas out for both abstract wall and interior decoration and so played with scale, repetition and texture to create a variety of outcomes.