The Letter we will be using

The Letter i will be using is a letter that a soldier has written to his mother and on what he has done before he went to war and what he did when he went  to war in. 

5th Bn, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Winchester.

" Mother

Just a line to let you know that I am getting on all right in the Army. I hope that you are all well as I am myself. I am very sorry for what I done when I was at home and will pay you back when I get some more pay. I like the Army very well for I am going to join the Regulars when I have done my time in the Reserve. Then I shall be able to pay you back for I get 30/- [30 shillings/£1.50] as a bounty. I hope you and Dad will forgive me for what I done when at home. I cannot write no more at present for I have to do some more work. Trusting you will forgive me. I remain your son,"

Stephen Brown

Dear Mother

"Just a line to let you know that I am getting on alright. I hope [you] are the same. I am sorry I did not write before. We are so busy that I have had [no] time. We are confined to barracks so I can not get a stamp… I hope Tommy and Archie Hammond are all right. Give my love to Kitty, Lillie, Maggie, Freddy and Ted. I hope Dad is quite well… I thank you for forgiving me. I know I don’t deserve it. Tell Auntie Tot and Uncle Bob that I am getting on fine. Is Uncle Bob been called up yet? We are calling all our Reservists up and those on leave. This is all at present.

I remain your loving son, Stephen"

These are some of the letters we will be using in our video.

Research

“These letters paint a portrait of a society scarred by tragedy, guilt and grief,” says Gavin Fuller, the Daily Telegraph archivist and compiler of The Telegraph Book of Readers’ Letters From the Great War. “Also of a country battling to give their all and ‘do their bit’.” That “bit” took many forms. When the war began, in August 1914, the columns of this paper were full of contributions from organisations and individuals putting forward not just suggestions, but practical offers of help. Along, then, with exhortations from the Royal Horticultural Society to plant turnips, onions and beetroot, and calls for volunteers to help farmers gather in the wheat harvest, there were rallying cries from luminaries across the land. The England cricket team, for example, suggested that anyone who had enjoyed watching a Test match should donate the equivalent of their admission money to a fund alleviating hardship caused by the war. “We have before us as we write, the vision of many a fair English cricket ground, packed with eager multitudes,” wrote a number of players, including W G Grace.

Officers at the front have written to say that long fishing waders, similar to those worn by fishermen, would be gratefully received, and would relieve the sufferings of our troops.” And, this being Britain, there were appeals on behalf of the animals too. “Without horses, war could not be waged,” observed Olive Smith-Dorrien, of 21 Eaton Terrace (many of the letters came from well-to-do addresses). “In 1912, Our Dumb Friends League started a branch called The Blue Cross Fund, which aimed at the care of horses during wartime. Over £3,000 a month is needed to carry on this work on its present scale, and up to date, we have received this amount from lovers of horses from all parts of the Empire.” Such goodwill was not, however, extended to two-footed Germans. Especially those who had settled in Britain before the war began.

Production Sec

Production

17^th September – Making Blog        

17^th September – Thinking of the idea

18th September – Making a mind map

24^th September – Research on the story and our idea

25th^h September – Writing a Proposal

26^th September – Script to be done and finished, (hopefully by lunch)

26^th September – Storyboard done and completed

30^th September – Camera Script completed

30^th September – film the scene of the actor writing the letters

8^th October – Get Props for filming

10^th October – Filming with Costumes and full mini episodes 

12^th October – Matthew will do a voice over for the episode

15^th October – Trotter will get sound for the video.

After the filming we will start our own edit for the episode

November 5^th – Deadline for everything to be in

Starting The Proposal

Start of the Proposal 

I will start my proposal to show off my idea on what to make on our World War One Revision video, my idea would be to talk about the  naive about how the world war would take they thought it be 4 months and how it would not last long. My Idea would include the truces football match that german and the british had at Christmas time which would be effect the war since after that the soldiers who were involved in it , did not want to fight after it. Since the naive was quite a big thing at the start, i thought it would be good idea to make this.          

The pictures above shows the pictures from the start of the war and the other picture is a football of the piece in the war and how they played. after this the war was stopped for a few days after this occasion happened.

Ideas = Women in the War/ Soldier Letters

These are some of the ideas that we have come up with, women in the war and the soldier in war and how the soldiers sent letters back home. the soldiers letters is most likely the way we are going to go and make, but we are finding hard to find a way to make it good production, finding costume and props to make our idea look good.

The Idea 

The idea would be that we would find a soldier letter to react it by someone acting as the soldier writing the letter home while showing what is happening. 

like i said before, when the person writing the letter , we would have a fade on the letter with someone acting whats happening in the letter out. we will need to find places act it out, i would act out the soldier in this letter. we will be able to use the costume to rent to help is with the video. i will make sure i get everything right because the group really want to make a high mark . at this moment i think that we will pick this idea since its quite different to the other groups, since the others are going for working women in the war, so that is why we are changing our idea, because we think that it be good idea to film this. 

Women in the War

Women's Support Roles in the World Wars Right up to the outbreak of World War I, feminists on both sides pledged themselves to peace, in transnational women’s solidarity. Within months of the war’s outbreak, however, “all the major feminist groups of the belligerents had given a new pledge – to support their respective governments.” 

We thought we would do this because women had such a big impact on the war and what an incredible job they did. the more made more jobs for women who couldn't get one in the past.  

Research at the Museum

As a group/class we all met up in cardiff and went to the Cardiff National Museum to look at the World War 1 expedition which was a good experience and allowed me and my group to come up with a ideas to help us and hopefully we will make a good video.

The inspiration that this has give me and my group was a good one. going around the museum looking at old photos made me rethink what it was actually was like in world war 1.

Wales helped out a lot in the war and with photos i will show later it is interesting looking at the photos, i found it amazing that people.

The picture below is showing a symbol of the end of the war. which shows a soldier nailing the door shut on the war. The devastation's recent presence is shown in the ruin with blood stains all round.

Showing a soldiers in training and at the front , one journalist described these pictures as capturing 'the spirit of our new, young army'.

Mini Episode of World War I

I have been given a task to make mini on world war 1 which would help GCSEs students age 14-16 relate to the events of 1914-18 in wales. i have been put in to a group and given us assigned roles. i have been given the role Producer to make sure everything is organised.