TO MARKET, TO MARKET

Last Thursday Mel from Live Wire Media came to talk to us about Marketing and Promotion.
We learnt:
- we need to think about what our buyers want- research your target market- do a survey
- we need to think carefully about what our product is and what it is called
- we need to advertise using language that everyone can understand
- decide who your target market is
- make sure your product is original/ unique/ better than your competitors.
- look at your competitors and find out what they have that is better than you.

Over the next few weeks we will be developing actions plans so that we can make sure we can produce quality products that our target markets (customers) will want to buy.
We will think about what makes our product unique when we are wrapping and advertising our products.


Here are some of our ideas for market day products:

Last Thursday Mel from Live Wire Media came to talk to us about Marketing and Promotion.
We learnt:
- we need to think about what our buyers want- research your target market- do a survey
- we need to think carefully about what our product is and what it is called
- we need to advertise using language that everyone can understand
- decide who your target market is
- make sure your product is original/ unique/ better than your competitors.
- look at your competitors and find out what they have that is better than you.


My product is going to be Wheat Bags.



My Target market is: Grandparents who have sore backs and parents who want to buy ice packs for their kids.

Action Plan:

Step 1: Find out the materials is need.
Step 2: Ask Whaea Meg to buy wheat and collect material.
Step 3: Make a prototype
Step 4: Show my target market my prototype. Ask them; "How much would you pay for this?"Would you buy this?" Do you like the colours and size? Any other feedback.
Step 5: Make more wheat bags.
Step 6: Design my packaging. Make sure I explain what makes my product unique. It is home made, made of recycled material. Natural materials
Step 7: Make a poster advertising my wheat bags and how much they cost. Make sure I include lots of information about the product and use convincing language and adjectives.

Quality Blog posts and commenting

We have been thinking about what we have been learning. Blog posts are helpful when we are trying to explain what we have been learning. We are also thinking about how confident we are when we are learning and practising new things. We reflect on how much we enjoyed each task and also think about what we will do next time to make our final products even better. 

This slide show will remind us how to make quality blog posts and comments.

Movie making: Take 2.

Today we attempted to create another movie. We used one of the scripts that we had written ourselves. Next time we need to make sure our script is in order and makes sense and it is clear what everyone is doing. We also need the actors to be louder and give them time to practice next time we make a movie.
We learnt that holding the camera can hurt your arms, we are looking forward to getting a tripod.
We learnt about the clapper. We used it so that it can sync up the audio and sound. We recorded the sound separately so that the speaking is clearer.
We had to re take some shots because we had cut off some of the recording. We also had to retake some shots to make sure the story made sense. Next time we will make sure we record before the clapper, we also need to make sure we say "cut" well after the actors have spoken, this will mean we can edit it more easily and ensure none of the speech is cut off.

It was a pretty good first attempt at a whole movie from scratch, we think we tried a range of camera shots and angles and we also worked well as a team in each different role; director, clapper, actors, sound recording, camera person.