Activity- Graphology

 

The use of this iconic symbol is to allow the brand to be easily recognised and therefore the customers will immediately know its one of their products. Logos help distinguish one business from another. Business names get reused in different categories all the time. In order to differentiate a particular business, a logo will be used. Also, often the marketer doesn't have the space to put the company's full name on every promotional knickknack used for branding purposes. A logo is a shorter representation of a business.
A well-designed logo catches the eye and identifies the company without the need for analysis or reading. When you see the yellow "M" known as the "Golden Arches," for example, you do not need to think or read anything else to recognize it as the fast food chain McDonald's. When you see a white, lowercase "f" in a blue box on you computer screen, you know instantly it's Facebook.Good logos "go viral" -- people know the logo and its associations so intimately that they start to use it themselves to make a statement.
Logos take an element of a company or product and make it appealing to its target audience. In the United Kingdom, for example, the Conservative party unveiled a new logo in 2006 that used the color green and the image of a tree to appeal to an environmentally conscious new generation. The Toys"R"Us logo uses bright colors and a bold, rounded font to appeal to children.
As we are exposed to various differnet marketing brands everyday, it makes it a quick way to recognise the individual ones and also shows us which ones are more well known than others.

 

 

 

 

Fairy Tale Ideas

• Hansel and Gretel
• Snow White - Dwarves want her to leave
• Little Mermaid - fishermen trying to hunt her for museum artifact, oil spills are intoxicating her so she thinks the fish are talking to her
• Alice In Wonderland - hallucinates because she's high on ecstacy

Tips For Writing Short Stories

1. Collect ideas for your story e.g. small snippets of information
2. Begin with basics of a short story:

Introduction: introduces characters, setting, time,weather, etc.

Initiating action: the point of a story that starts the rising action.

Rising action: events leading up to the climax or turning point.

Climax: the most intense point or turning point of the story.

Falling action: your story begins to conclude.

Resolution: a satisfying ending to the story in which the central conflict is resolved—or not!

3.Know your characters. For a story to be believable, the characters have to feel genuine and realistic.
4. Decide who will tell the story e.g. First, second or third person
5. Organize your thoughts. After you've prepared the basic elements of your story, it can be helpful to do out a time-line in some way to help you decide what should happen when
6. Start writing.
7. Re-read and edit your story. Get a second opinion by asking someone else to read it

Tip: Read other short stories to help you write your own, take not of the style and how it's written. Pay attention to how the authors develop their characters, write dialogue, and structure their plots.

How Am I Finding English Language?

Throughtout this half term I have found english language to be interesting and I quite enjoyed writing the story for the Halloween flash fiction competition. However, I find it difficult to remember all of the lingustic methods and how they link to each other. I have found the lessons different from what I thought they would be but I still enjoy them. To understand the methods further I will try and think of examples for each of the lingustic methods which could help me remember them.
I especially enjoyed turning the classroom in to a mini maze to try and link each type of text to each other as it was helpful but aslo fun at the same time.
I think and hope I will enjoy the rest of the english language course.

Inspiration For My Story

I got the inspiration for my story from a task we were given; this was to create a Halloween themed flash fiction story for younger years 7-9 for a competition. This story consisted of 500 words and had to be suitable for the audience. The purpose of this story was to entertain the younger audience throughout the Halloween season, to do this I influence them to feel scared and build tension whilst they read the flash fiction and used a variety of lingustic methods such as idioms, metaphors and different sentence types. I used a variety of vocabulary and synoyms that I knew they would understand and would be suitable for their reading ability.

I decided to write my story about paranormal activity happening in the woods at night. I chose to do this because we naturally associate the dark with feeling scared and mystery, this would effect them by enhancing them to find out what the paranormal activity was and why it happened. I named my flash fiction 'Stay Out of the Woods' and this would encourage them to think of why they needed to stay out of the woods and what would happen if they went in there. By talking about the spirits only coming out at night it makes the story more creepy than if it were to happen in the day, this is because the dark is about the unknown and what we can't see.

Stay Out of the Woods

Stay Out of the Woods

Have you ever been told to stay out of the woods after dark? There’s a reason for that. As night falls the mysterious creatures start to emerge. The kind of creatures that make your parents lock the door before they go to bed and draw the curtains slowly across the closed window, as they take a final gaze in to the pool of black that has swept over the horizon, causing the last bit of sunlight to drain away.

Tilly Johnson had always been adventurous for her age, some may say rebellious. If only she’d listened to her parents, telling her over and over again, the story of the dark lady who lived in there. Only coming out at night and if you listened closely, you could hear her screeching cries. They say she died of a broken heart. Widowed at 50, her husband was brutally murdered and the suspect is still loose. But now, she was back for revenge and the cries fell silent across the woods…

“Woah” her friends all gawped at her after she’d finished sharing the tale, in the middle of maths class.
“It’s not real obviously, there’s no such thing as ghosts or spirits” Tilly scoffed, unimpressed by their reactions.
“Well if you’re so brave, why don’t you go in there?” Jimmy Jupiter said smugly.
“Is that a dare?” Tilly raised her eyebrows. Everybody knew she would never back out of a dare, no matter how dark or creepy it was, “you’re on”

And those two simple words are how this nightmare began to unravel…

Tilly had arranged to meet her friends after school before they entered the deepest, darkest part of the woods so she could win her dare.
“Why have you got a rope?” Bethany Simmons asked as they got to the edge of the woods.
“So we can find our way out again” Tilly shrugged, like I said, she knew a lot about exploring (if that’s what you would call this). So she placed some on the floor and gulped before taking the first step in. They walked and walked until the rope unravelled for the last time and lay limply on the floor.
“We can’t stop now” Jimmy protested, so reluctantly, they carried on walking in a straight line from the rope. They heard a shrill scream and froze, hardly daring to breath. They looked at each other, lost for words. The night had started to close in on them and paranormal activity was swamping the woods. Branches tried to claw at them, leaves crunched from unknown footsteps. They fled. Back to the rope to guide them out to the safety they all craved. But wait. They stopped dead in their tracks. The rope was not where they’d left it, but instead coiled around a tree branch. That was when they knew they weren’t alone and there was no way out.

Hearts pounded and knees trembled. A cloaked figure emerged, ragged hair covering half of its face. Tilly turned around, she was alone. She screamed. A strange sensation overcame her body. Her eyes rolled uncontrollably. As if her body was not her own anymore. As if there was a dark demon taking over. As if the cries heard in the woods, had become her own…

Text A Analysis

Text A is a transcript of four boys playing a computer game. Andrew is playing, the others are watching.

From this text I learnt that Ben is the bossiest one out of the four and likes to give orders, I can see this because he uses a lot of imperative verbs for example 'throw your light sabre'.

Andrew seems to know what he is doing when he plays this game as he says 'this is what I do every time I kill him' and this shows he is arguing against Ben trying to tell him different. But also he is concerntrating as he keeps pausing when he talks to the other boys; for example 'I can kill myself (.) observe (.) now (.) way number one' which shows he has probably played the game many times before.

Carl and David do not have that much of a role in this scene and they do not have a lot of input in the conversation. This could portray that they are the quieter ones out of the four and as they both say things simultaneously to others (e.g. when they laugh together) it shows that they agree with whats being said. Also, when David shouts 'the machine gun (.) the machine gun' this highlights how he could only be interested in the game and wants to try and help Andrew win.

Whereas Ben tries to dominate the game and get Andrew to do what he suggests, even though Andrew implies he has played the game many times before, David and Carl would prefer to observe what is happening and their actions.