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MONDAY THE TWENTY SEVENTH OF NOVEMBER A fresh day of a new week, and things got immensely better. We began sorting risk assessment & things we needed for print outs as our location was looking more solid now. Liselle got back to Kylan and she said we could go check out the space. It was super cool and probably better than the church as it had sofas and a kitchen area. Liselle said she would do £12 /hour for us, even though it was usually £25. We decided to do 3 hours, meaning we would only had to add £4 each onto the deposit. More things we did after that: more risk assess, other print outs, lukas emailed herald to confirm location, and kylan made edits to poster and fb page. TUESDAY THE TWENTY EIGHTH OF NOVEMBER Went to library with Mindi and we ploughed through the rest of the paper work and got it signed off by Anne. I also finished doing the print outs and Kylan and Lukas handed out leaflets. WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY NINTH OF NOVEMBER Again; went to the library. We...

MONDAY THE TWENTIETH OF NOVEMBER We had another tutorial with Anne to discuss where we were in the process, she suggested that we put up flyers near the location, like at Waitrose and maybe even target the community that the Church already has.  Afterwards, we went to library again to work on the paper work, and leaflets. In addition to this there were emails and phone calls to be made. We also rang mind and with no reply, went on to calling the Baptist Church about whether we could stick things on the walls and maybe advertise. This phone call was the beginning of this week's demise of our motivation. They told us that there had been a change of plans and that Mindfulness stems from Buddhism so would be against there beliefs, etc. We got our deposit back, however this meant we had to find a new location, and fast. We looked for locations on a site called  http://www.farnham.gov.uk and wrote down phone numbers to the places that were affordable, not too far, and were good ...

TUESDAY THE FOURTEENTH OF NOVEMBER We had a meeting with Anne to give feedback as to where we were at with this project and she gave us some good feedback, raising some good points and ideas. We had originally been trying to get in contact with the Farnham Herald to get a space to advertise, however Anne recommended that we try and get them to get a journalist to do a piece on us and go about it that way, which we all agreed was a really good idea. As well as this, we brought up that we wanted to put flyers up, but at the same time didn't want too many people crowding, so Anne suggested that we put them in the baptist church to target that community and Waitrose as it is near the church. After this meeting, we decided we needed to watch more documentaries to be inspired by the way they're shot and edited to help catalyse the ideas of how we wanted to do ours and also we need to try and get a few extra helping hands - we were thinking the Mindful Society may be able to help ou...

For our documentary project, I really wanted to watch more documentaries as to get inspiration for filming and editing styles, Kylan recommended a site called shortoftheweek.com and i checked out some cool documentaries on there. These are the notes I made while watching: One Plastic Beach ||  https://vimeo.com/18672227  ||  https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/08/18/one-plastic-beach/  || - like the intro and interview with the actual creators. possibly do the same at the beginning. - inspiring. - uses photos of their work. We Live This || https://vimeo.com/168846622 ||  https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/06/01/we-live-this/ || - introduction to each person is done nicely - like the use of slow motion and close ups. 7.34-7.37 shots, cut half of his body off. - contrast between the energetic, uplifting dancing in the subway and then cuts to a scene of tension. - lighting of interview at 9.05 is nice with the classical, deep music faintly in the b...

As a part of research for our documentary, I decided to do some research on colour psychology in the library and this is what I found out of two useful books. “The special and aerial qualities that the light blues and Cyan generate are also colours identified as being associated with a release of tensions and a spirit getting away from things that constrict and the experience of freedom and open-mindedness.” Adding a touch of red to blue can solidify it and it ‘stands up for itself’ rather than being far away and spacious. Colour Tree: The peak impact of light and colour is likely to present a zone of effects from very likely to those of real pain and shock. At Moderate Impact, the colours are more like a natural environment. Colours that have austerity and stability and not intrusive. COLOUR SYMBOLISM FROM PREHISTORY TO MODERN AESTHETICS, PSYCHOLOGY, & IT, Don Pavey, 701.85PAV Blue is seen as reliable and trustworthy. Periwinkles are the warmest and most playful as...

THE BEGINNING The first thing we did was make a group chat on facebook, so we could put our initial ideas over study week, which gave us a good starting point for when we had the chance to meet up and then develop ideas, rather than start from scratch. As well as this, Kylan made a google doc that we could all add to and we had different colours for each of us. We had lots of brief and base ideas, all of which were great stating points. Here are some of them: - something in the woods/farnham park - creating an art piece out of it eg. getting people to draw on a canvas or large piece of paper. maybe then display it somewhere around farnham or uni - gather people to create origami cranes (or something along those lines) - the idea of basing something on/along the lines of happiness also was in the pool, asking people what makes them happy. FRIDAY THE THIRD OF NOVEMBER All of our group went on the London trip (read my blog post about it here ), so this was a chance to r...

As a part of our documentary research, we decided to go to the mindfulness event that was being held that at the SU by the Well Being Society. We didn't know or expect much, however thought there would be some ideas or inspiration that we could pick up there. The set up of the space was nice, as it only used a small square of the SU. There were sofas, chairs, and bean bags arranged so you could sit how you pleased and as well as this there were smoothies you could get for £2 and tea & coffee out to get. The set up was simple, yet effective and the tapestry at the back added some colour to the space as well as creating a welcome and chill atmosphere. We really liked the smoothies and drinks idea too, it was nice to be able to have a break half way through and get a drink of tea. The talk was by a DJ from LA called Darin McFadyen who was very engaging and interesting. He gave a talk about Buddhist philosophies and our place on the Earth and questioning the connection between h...