Slightly off topic, but was Vaughn Carradice teaching media at Sharnbrook back in your day? I remember someone telling me in sixth form that his classes in year 9 have something like a 50% higher take up rate for media than any other teacher.
Indeed he was. Funnily enough I was thinking back to a media lession with him. Multi track recordings. On track 1 was a fine well spoken gentalmen talking about how horror and suspence could be protraied with something as sinister and simple as a creaking door or a single shot in the dark. On track 2, a musical track from War Of The Worlds. Combined togther they worked extreamly well.
Me & Fade were both on the same GCSE media studies cource. We banded together with some of our other friends for our final project. I'd been doing really badly through the couple of years. You had to take 2 parts. So there was media, which I realy loved doing. And got ok greads for. The other choise wasn't so good. I have zero artisic tallent, so art was out. Textiles? No way, not an option. So considering I had played trumpet, tuba, euphonium back in my middle school, I opted for music. But I have zero creative tallent in that as well. Befor the final project was submitted I was on a predicted "E" to boarderline "F" final grade. The final project was loosly based on "Space". So some art based on space, recorded on a monster huge VHS shoulder mounted camera, with some music playing. Oh boy, it was gonna suck.
However there was over 2 hours of footage of me and Fade cocking about to olimpic level. Generally running around campus and invading random classes. Pretending a folded up tripod was a machien gun. Leaping off the ampi theater on to crash mats that were out of shot. You get the general idea. Now I come to think of it there was a section where we shang-highed my sister into the equation and mimed out the "Stutter Rap" song. [cring-maximus]
Anyway. I used all that stuff to make a montage. A kind of "How we made this project" "mini-documentary" thing. My final gread for GCSE media Studies came in at a "C". The final project had scored an "A" and thus pulled up my two year failure to an average. Needless to say I was chuffed to bits.
One of my regrets in life is that I never made a copy of the raw footage or final project. But considering some of the content (stutter rap), it's proably best that it's lost to the past.
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