First Steps to First Words....

Today MAP ran a creative workshop with the First Steps to First Words domestic violence group. The group is for young people and is facilitated by Jane Limerick. One of the young people had a poem that we thought was that good we've published it here today.

My Prison

I'm sat here now
all alone
nothing on the telly
or on the phone

My life is a prison
no locks no bars
a dream of escaping
in trains or in cars

I look for a hand to hold
or even a call
a sign of humanity
anything at all.

I reach out for comfort
my soul it is crying
my love is expanding
My heart dying.

Keep Strong
By Marc Plowman.

(If you would like to contact the group please call jane on 07979871518)

Star Skipper

For my creative writing piece I wrote about my style of writing and gave examples in the form of a short poem and story plan.

This is my poem:

“See Rory, I can flutter better than you thought. I’m a star skipper now, look out of your window and above"

“Oh, I can see sapphire velvet flowing gracefully, circling as she danced star to star. Sewing a pattern, a message into the sky’s fabric”

“I’m happy - you should be too”

“You will find joy many moons afar”

“Cherish all and everything”

A feather falls lonely into my hand Immaculate, Untouched, New.

The poem came from the story idea which is about a young boy who tragically loses his best friend and how he copes afterwards, finding out more about himself and others in the process.

I have put a lot of thought into it and the whole progression.
Yeah - it’s more awesome than Barbie cheating on Ken with Cindy and saying that in fact Cindy is a man in full drag…

Chris Mooney

A couple of movies from oxford

This is Cassie's storyboard for a scary movie set in a hospital.
Below are two videos, one by Ben and one by Katy.

MAP Glow

This is a cover of the Alien Ant Farm song Glow.
We recorded the whole thing using only Garage Band and our ibook's built in microphone.
The quality isn't great but its not bad considering the limited equipment we had.
Joel

Mirror Art

"The other day I started cutting out pictures and words from magazines for my mirror picture that I had been planning. I carefully selected my pictures and words and stuck them onto a piece of paper. I made sure I placed them all unevenly so that they would look good mirrored, I even used pictures of myself in the piece - you know, to add some sexiness to it all!

Then once I was happy with everything I had stuck down, I scanned it into the computer and used Photoshop to make more copies of it and to add to the side and the bottom. I was going for a kind of three-way mirror effect kinda thing.

Then I started to add detail to the background, messing around with the Gradient Tool to add certain effects to the background. Guess I kinda went a bit mad but my aim was to make it look ‘WOW’

I’m mega proud of the finished piece I think it looks more awesome than a panda in a tuxedo eating a jam doughnut.

Yep - that awesome!!!"

Chris Mooney

A Cold and Wet Oxford

Cassie and Marianna are building a totem pole.

And these are the first pictures of SPIDER WORLD.

Oxford will be the switch we turn on.

Lucy and Bea are working on a 3D spider environment (as you do).




And these are album covers designed by Cassi and Katy. All we need now is some music!
Luckily Cassi brought her guitar in and taught us how to play Glow by Alien Ant farm (so we all had a nice sing along).
Speaking of aliens. . . . .



. . . here's more of the animation, this time on an alien Planet.