ArtsAward - Bronze

Part A - Explore the arts as a participant

What I have to do

• Describe the arts activity that I will focus on - Filmmaking
• Information on how I developed my participation - Inspiration Spielberg, Home movies, Go to a club, check other clubs in the area, read articles, free internet courses, books in library, other filmmakers, storyboards, learning techniques, 
• Summery of what I've learnt and how - film myself talking about what I've learnt.

Part B - 

Part C - Art Heros and Heroins

• Evidence of my art hero - film myself talking about my hero
• Do a summery in a form of media (eg. scrap book, video, painting etc....)

Art Hero - Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, video game designer and studio executive. He has had a career spanning 40 years and he has covered many different themes and subjects including science-fiction, adventure, slavery, war and terrorism.

I have watched many of his films including Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and many more.

He first started film making in his early teens with his friends. In 1958, he became a Boy Scout, was fully awarded the photography merit badge by making a 9 minute film titled The Last Gunfight. This is how he started to get into it. At 13, he won a prize for a 40 minute war film titled Escape to Nowhere which was based on a battle in Africa.

In 1963, aged 16 Spielberg wrote and directed his first independant film.

He has many film projects going on at the moment. He is turning the Tintn Adventures by Belgian author Herge. He is also working on a film of the World War 1 book War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. Both are to be released in December this year.

Bronze Award

To get the Bronze Award you need to:

• Take part in an arts activity,anything from dance to creative writing to beat boxing
• Go to an arts event of your choice
• Find your arts hero or heroine, research their story, and discover how they got to where they are today
• Share your skills by helping to run a workshop or by giving a demonstration to others

Part A and Part C - Update

I have made a short video explaining what I'm going to do for Part A and Part C. At the moment I haven't exported it but I'll do that tonight and send it to Mr Miles to mark. I will add more videos of me explain what I've done and I'll show the different things I've collected or made like storyboards and scripts.