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THE OFFICIAL GATEWAY COLLEGE MAGAZINE ON WORD THE STREET AUTUMN EDITION 2015 ISSUE 9 Gateway Students End Of Year Show Gateway Open Day Gateway On Film Gateway In Music in this edition: Progress Coaches offer advice on writing the perfect ALSO UCAS Application. www.Gateway.ac.uk Contents Gateway On The Autumn 2015 Big Screen Gateway staff and students have been working with two local production 8 companies to develop and create three films to showcase the incredible facilities, talent and diversity within the College. 3 My Life On Set tailed as they went about By Lydia Sharman preparing their equipment. 11 CONTENTS I was sat in my Arts Award At around 9:20am the class one Wednesday actors arrived and were 3 Gateway on the big afternoon thinking about in good spirits. We spent screen how I could apply journalism the morning filming outside to my work when my friend which was lovely due to the 4 Students End of Year Billy walked in and asked cool air and warm sun. The Show any thanks to Seed me if I could help her with filming went well and we’d MCreativity, Affixxius a film she was involved in. got our opening shots done 4 10 8 Getting to grips with UCAS Productions and a cast I followed her into a room in the space of about 30 of thousands who have with lots of people gathered minutes, with a few 10 Gateway welcomes helped to bring these around a table discussing re-shoots to play around Welcome To Word On The Street visitors to Open Day exciting projects to life. You the video and the day of with later just in case. That’s can view the films on the filming that was to come. A one thing I noticed actually; The Autumn Issue 11 Former student Bhavik Gateway College Youtube long afternoon made short, the crew always got plenty channel or go to: they asked me to be their of footage to work with In this issue we will take a whistle stop tour of the students Solanki shares the secrets journalist for the project and even if it was for a short End of Year Shows and our College Open Day, watch of his success Gateway College - Fly I accepted! sequence of shots, so they three new promotional videos and find out how they were Higher: had lots to play with when made, meet former student and chart topping music https://www.youtube.com/ We made a plan to meet it came to editing. This producer Bhavik Solanki and speak to our Progress watch?v=VimC0zdd-CE up at college on the was an eye opener to me Coaches about clinching that all important university following Tuesday in the half because, as a film student place. PAGE DESIGN Behind the scenes of Fly term for the filming which myself, when I’m filming, I MATTHEW COOPER Higher: I would attend to take tend to make a conscious As always, the magazine has been created by Gateway https://www.youtube.com/ notes.… and here’s what I effort to get only the shots I students and their teachers Blake Goddard, (Teacher of watch?v=PouB33alL3A came out with! want and get them right as Media) and Tim Jones, (Teacher of English). Thank you to quickly as possible. them for their creativity and expert guidance. Gateway Creative and I arrived on location at Performing Arts Promo: 9:00am and saw that no By 11:30am the actors had We hope you enjoy reading this edition of Word on the https://www.youtube.com/ one was waiting outside composed dance routines Street and welcome your feedback. You can read all watch?v=QZFpxoUduxg where I expected everyone and short stage plays ready previous copies of the magazine on the College website at to meet. I walked into the for filming. By lunchtime www.gateway.ac.uk. College thinking I would everyone seemed slightly be told that the filming day fatigued and we were very Until next time, had been changed but, to happy to take a break. Jade my surprise, I was greeted Then we were ready to start by the film crew who were filming again, and film we Gateway College Marketing and Promotions Officer bright eyed and bushy did for the rest of the day! 2 WORD ON THE STREET MAGAZINE / AUTUMN 2015 WORD ON THE STREET MAGAZINE / AUTUMN 2015 3 he process of designing and setting development from the original photographs Tup my exhibition space was a lengthy as a clear journey of thoughts and ideas. process that finalised everything I had Deciding on the structure and layout of my END OF YEAR SHOW achieved during this foundation year. In the space became one of the most enjoyable The annual Art Show at Gateway College took place on Wednesday 24th June 2015. course of my final major project, I produced and gratifying parts of the creative process. This exhibition showcased the sensational work produced by creative arts students. The a sketchbook, mood boards, illustrations event was open for members of the public and gave students the chance to show off their and four garments with accessories to WORDS Holly Ward skills through the final outcomes of their work and the notebooks that charted the work in form a collection of pieces reflecting the progress. WORDS Aitanna Gomes development of my project, but how here was a variety of displays of students’ I believe that this art show was an should I display it? Twork from the many different creative incredible platform which gave students subjects available, such as Photography, the opportunity to showcase their work, The constant bouncing off from each Graphics, Fashion, 3D Design, and our especially as the exhibition remained other’s ideas created a sense of team work Creative Media courses: Animation, Print in place for several days. Overall, the and really helped to pull the whole show Media, Games Development, and TV and exhibition was a magnificent event, possibly together. For me, the most accomplished Film. one of the best events held at the College. part of the show is the diversity of all the This is because it gave anyone from parents work presented. Each individual collection The show was well attended, with visitors to potential students the chance to see of work reflects the personal style of the attentively viewing the displays and what skills Gateway College can offer. creator. The combination of presenting browsing through the many photography portraiture, fashion, textiles, set design, sketchbooks showing ideas and progression I am looking forward to next years show interiors, architecture and fine art in one and the beautifully designed photo books already! exhibition space creates many points of showing final images. Also included in the interest and reflects the talent across the photography exhibition were beautiful college as a whole and the many different photos which showed imagination and styles you can embrace whilst studying differing personalities coming through to at Gateway, particularly within the Art the audience. Foundation course. Creating quirky display features such as The theatre had an exhilarating camera shelving, suspending things from wire, and reel accompanied by background music using boxes was something that my peers which showed media animation, TV and began to incorporate into their spaces film sketches as well as student podcasts which inspired my own display. on varying topics. This was very entertaining and interesting as it gave an insight into Focusing upon the influences I gained what you can achieve with the media from visiting Venice, my project entails courses on offer here. looking beyond the perfections within its picturesque appeal. Influenced by the In the show I particularly liked the fashion textures of fishermen’s rope and netting designs that were on display, showing but also using Venice’s historic, crumbling unique individuality in their ideas and walls and ageing cracks and crevices as talents. One dress that stood out to me inspirations, my project reflects the details was the clear dress with a floral design at of Venice that are masked beneath its the edge of it. I loved how inspired and beauty. insightful the idea was and how the final outcome of the dress had turned out. I compiled all the relevant work to decide how I would arrange everything within The setup of the exhibition was enticing the exhibition space to complement my as there was something to admire in all final collection of garments. Arranging my directions as you walked through the photographs needed the most thought college, making sure there was never a dull and this is reflected in their central position. moment. I wanted the focus to be upon the textural detail in Venice and clearly show my 4 WORD ON THE STREET MAGAZINE / AUTUMN 2015 WORD ON THE STREET MAGAZINE / AUTUMN 2015 5 Photography “Louis Pugsley-Birch’s ‘Light in the Night’ landscape series is hauntingly beautiful and “What stood out for me was the THE END OF YEAR SHOW worthy to be hung large scale on anyone’s photographic work of Aitanna Gomes, wall, preferably mine!” (Brett Heathcote) STAFF COMMENTS whose picture of three white seashells Jewellery, Graphics and Textiles overlaid with a cropped image of an autumnal forest was more than the sum of “Jewellery, Graphics and Textiles Zainab, Holly, and Natasha created really its parts. Tree and shell. Wood and stone. The ‘sea-inspired jewellery’ is just beautiful. strong developmental sketchbooks to Black and white.” (Anthony Wood) Especially the two ‘wave’ necklaces.” inform their very individual and professional (Fiona Singer) fashion collections.