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Issue 02 (December 2018)

Industry WeekRoyal Television SocietyYouths Choice TV& more!

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In this issue...

Industry Week

Royal Television Society

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Youths Choice Update Page 10

Geograpghy Trip Page 11

Youths Choice TV Page 12

Page 14Youths Choice Playlisting Session

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19th - 23rd November 2018

Written by Tahlia Tyger

From the 19th of November to the 23rd, Global Academy held their last Spotlight

Week of 2018. Spotlight Week gives the opportunity for Globalers to meet with their

subject teachers to discuss their work, progress, and ways to improve the work

they produce in lessons. In addition to having the vital one-on-one sessions with

the teachers, we also had the opportunity to listen to industry professionals give a

50-minute talk about their job, experiences, and give advice to students. Later on

in the week, from Wednesday to Thursday, there were many workshops held in the

Academy for all KS5 students. To wrap up the week, there was a trip organised for

all of KS5, to visit a careers fair at Excell in London.

I was lucky enough to be chosen to be a presenter and introduce all the guest

speakers on the Monday in the main theatre alongside Elliot, and Tia in the year

above. We had some amazing and inspirational speakers ranging from Martina

Poter, from All Springs Media, to Dick Stone from Global talking about becoming

a radio presenter. We even had a familiar face return to the Academy; the lovely

Zaynah Din, who’s currently participating in an apprenticeship with Facebook.

Zaynah spoke about her typical day in the o� ce where she described how she

would play Xbox and chat with colleagues, as well as being productive with briefs.

On the Tuesday, I was a presenter again except I was in the lecture theatre with

Rhys, who’s also in the year above. Being a presenter was also such a great

experience as I learnt how to engage with an audience and say the most

important information about each visitor in the shortest period. I also learnt how

to project my voice to ensure all students could hear me and to be articulate

and professional, when personally talking to all guests. We had some amazing

speakers again from Aidan Guida’s farther, Tom Guida, talking about how an idea

becomes a � lm and the legal steps and precautions of the process. We also had

the Capital Breakfast team in, where they held a really exciting an interactive

session. They asked students to come up with some ideas that they could possibly

use with the celebrities’ backstage a� er their set at the Jingle Bell Ball, and then

we had to pitch our ideas where we all gained feedback.

On the Wednesday and Thursday there were further workshops. The workshops

varied from fashion bloggers, to a vlog star challenge, a Harry Potter themed

session, and the one I was in- the Adidas campaign. I was tasked to create an

advertising campaign to try and get more young girls (14-17) back into sport as

there was a statistic that most young female teens drop out of sport a� er they

� nish primary school because of a range of external factors.

Over the two days we brain stormed and come to a conclusion of our campaign.

Our main idea was to use a successful, yet not so well-known British athlete telling

their success story and the obstacles they had to overcome. Overall, I thoroughly

enjoyed this workshop as I loved the creative atmosphere and how so many

creative ideas were being bounced around in the room from all students and the

support we had for each other.

Finally, to wrap up the week we all visited the Excell in London to walk around a

careers fair which was interesting and really engaging. I gained a lot of knowledge

about all the di� erent pathways that I could possibly chose to go down. I also saw

lots of di� erent colleges and universities and the subjects that they have on o� er.

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November 2018

Written by Katarina Sullivan

In November, I, along with others, attended the Royal Television Society two day TV masterclass. The masterclasses focused on Programme Making and Cra� Skills

for TV production which, as someone who wants to go into working in TV, was extremely helpful. Each masterclass was run by media professionals who specialise

in di� erent pathways, giving us a detailed insight of the opportunities in the TV industry. I really enjoyed the masterclasses as I learnt a lot of new skills when the

professionals showed us their own work and explained how they created it.

One of my personal favourites was the Factual Entertainment masterclass as I found that I have a real interest for creating that type of TV; real-life docu-dramas

. The masterclass was led by Sharon Powers, Creative Director at Potato, and Nav Raman, founder and Creative Director of Chatterbox. They both gave us an

insight of the process they went through to create programmes such as Jo Malone’s High St Dreams for BBC1, Child Genius and The Unteachable. In addition,

they explained the highs and lows of working in Factual Entertainment.

Before attending the masterclass I wasn’t aware that Factual Entertainment was a separate category in TV, but I am now very interested in exploring it further to

see how I can get into it in the future!

Royal TelevisionSociety Masterclass

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Physical Education:Lunch Time Clubs

Monday

FootballTuesday

Basketball with PeteWednesday

FootballThursday

Basketball/NetballFriday

Decide on the day for students that turn up

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A�erschool – 3PM till 4PM

Tuesday

Art Factory Year 10 only CCA 102

Computer Science Year 11 EVI 204

Ketchup Club (Media) Year 10 & 11 VBO & SHO 207

Thursday

Basketball Coaching Everyone CWA Sports Hall

Maths Intervention Everyone Maths Team Math Dept.

Geography Club Year 11 EVI 204

Adobe 101 Year 12 & 13 AWI 207

Youths Choice Radio Club Everyone MPE 307

Sam’s Short Shorts (Filmmaking) Everyone SRO & JAL 309

Wednesday

Studio Training, Pro Tools & Songwriting

Everyone JWO 008

Electronics Club Year 11 RDH 103

I Got Soul – Dance Club Everyone CWA Sports Hall

Maths Homework Club Year 10 & 11 Maths Team Math Dept.

Art Factory Year 11 CCA 102

Ketchup Club (Media) Year 12 & 13 VBO & SHO 207

Digital Factory Everyone AWI 207

Youths Choice Radio Club Everyone MPE 307

Advanced Cinematography Year 12 & 13 SRO & JAL 309

Computer Science Year 10 & 11 EVI 204

English Intervention / Book Club Everyone RAH 202

Clubs & ClassesSeptember – December 2018

Science Club / Intervention Year 10 & 11 Science Team Science Labs

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Youths Choice Update

22nd November 2018

Since the last update, there’s been some exciting progress with Youths Choice. If you’ve been spending time on the third-� oor breakout area recently, you may have noticed the stickers appearing on the studio windows and the “blue up” of the studio walls. We have o� cially updated the branding, from the old branding set up by the recent Year 13 graduates to a newer and cleaner logo. The new “talk show” style branded room next to the studio opens a great deal of new possibilities for the station in terms of content – The � rst of which you might see on our social media pages. During industry week, Youths Choice put out 20 hours of live content. For many people, it was the � rst time that their shows has been put live on-air. The shows mainly consisted of Year 13 On-Air elective students, who over the course of the term, have been practising using Zetta and writing links aimed to go on air. It was amazing to see all that hard work come together into those live shows. In addition to the above, a new school year has meant new students undertaking Youths Choice. A� er a few meetings a� erschool and a few completed tasks, we have a schedule of 47 hours of voice tracked content with over 50 presenters. For the � rst time, we also have a large amount of KS4 students on the schedule, compared to the majority KS5 schedule last year.

Another exciting update is that we have started to air our specialist shows, commencing with “Showstopper Sunday”.

You may remember that this was presented by Year 13 student, Emily Parrott, last year. The show, however, must go on and Year 12’s Krystal and Georgie have gladly stepped up to the mark. Catch them at 3pm every Sunday.

Finally, last week, we had Year 13 Graduate, D’Angelo Briscoe, teaching us how he and his team choose the songs that go onto the Capital playlist and helping us to implement a similar system at Youths Choice. While here, he helped us completely change the way we schedule music and started us o� on our quest to make the station sound as good as possible when it plays in the Atrium.

As a parting piece of information, we are still on the lookout for audio producers to help in creating the station sound. If that sounds like you, email ben.edmonds@globalacademy.com

Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to keep up to date with the latest Youths Choice content - @YouthsChoiceGA

Written by Ben Edmonds

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Geography Trip

21st November 2018

Written By Katie Burgen

Our � rst Geography � eld trip consisted of us meeting up with Eddy who guided us around a local river whist informing us of � ood risk details and allowing us to measure the river and its features. We were shown both upstream and downstream and calculated using a scale of 1-10 the total � oor risk of the area (how safe it is). However, when it came to the measuring aspect we ran into some di� culties. This was due to the timing of our arrival.

In the Autumn, leaves clog up the river and since summer had just gone; there had barely been any rainfall in the area. This le� us with the task of trying to measure the height/ depth of water in the river and the velocity without really having much water to measure, except the occasional puddle. All in all, we learnt about how to securely section the rivers to investigate the likelihood of � ooding. We had some good outdoor experience while putting what we have learnt in the classroom to practice.

On Wednesday 21st, we went to Stratford in East London to study the Human Geography and development in the area. The trip was fun, as we met some Spanish teenagers on the train.

Once we got to Stratford, we realised how cold it was. Our guide, Celeste, greeted us and we headed to our base. We walked through West� eld to get to our base, right next to the East Village, from which we could see the Shard in the distance. A� er � lling out some forms of our own, we asked people to rate di� erent aspects of the East Village and its development. Probably due to the cold, not many people stopped to help us.

A� er lunch we started walking around the East Village, noting di� erent aspects of it as we went. This included identifying shops and other services, open spaces and schools. Around this time, the cold bit down on all of us, and it was decided to cut the trip short. Luckily, once we were back inside, Eric bought everyone (who wanted one) a hot chocolate! Overall, it was inter-esting to see Stratford, but we were all glad once we got inside away from the cold.

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Youths Choice TV

December 2018

Written by Rosie Turner

On Thursday 22nd November, the amazing Youth’s Choice TV relaunched during our Industry Week, alongside Youth’s Choice radio.

On the � rst two days of Industry Week the Youth’s Choice team were responsible for creating visual content for the Academy’s social media. We interviewed every guest lecturer who came in to speak to us, asking them questions about what part they play in the media industry and tips they would give to us on how to get a break into the industry successfully. This was an incredible experience as we met people with real in� uence for example: MP Margot James for Digital & Creative Industries; Presenter Rhia Hebde; Global’s Dick Stone and many more impressive professionals.

This was a great opportunity for the whole team as we gained professional experience in areas such as: those in control of the gallery had to ensure the auto queue was working at an accurate speed to the rate at which the person was talking, as well as making sure the cameras and audio mic were recording simultaneously. From the Launch, Youth’s Choice TV has introduced its newest show ‘The Loop’. The Loop is a segment where our enthusiastic student presenters talk us through a number

of di� erent topics that represent youth today ranging from ideas such as Kanye West’s worst moments to the top three hype streetwear fashion brands. Youth’s Choice TV meet every Wednesday a� er school to record ‘The Loop’s’ newest episodes. This means we have up to four people controlling the gallery making sure that the camera angle is correct and focused, as well as making sure the mic sound levels pick up the presenter’s voice accurately and aren’t distorted. Usually, there are two people in the studio- one being the presenter, recording and the other operating the camera and communicating with the gallery as � oor manager. For post-production, each presenter is responsible for editing their show, making sure to add the branded loop graphics and submitting it to the producer to upload on air. Youth’s Choice TV is aired on the big screen in the Academy. ‘The Loop’ segments are relayed between the music videos that are part of the channel.

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Youths Choice Playlisting Session

20th September 2018

I attended D’Angelo’s session with the idea that I would not learn much from an audio producing side, especially since I went in knowing only the basics of G:

Selector. From what I know of G:Selector, it is the program radio stations use to playlist/schedule the songs that they will play through another so� ware so that it

gets played live.

One of the most basic things that will stick with me a� er participating in the workshop is that the playlist for a radio station is everything! This makes a lot of sense

because if a playlist is full of old, boring songs then the audience will have lost interest because there is no sense of variety within the song choices.

From the little time I have known D’Angelo, I have only hear good things about his commitment and his attitude overall towards his work, and it de� nitely has

paid o� , especially since he is now working at Global.

The workshop actually showed me a lot of shortcuts that will de� nitely make my time in a studio more e� cient now that I can use G: Selector more comfortably.

In the near future, I hope I can use what D’Angelo has given me as tips to schedule the playlists for Youth Choice.

Written by Logan Ferreira

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