THE ROCK FESTIVAL PROJECT

This is a project for the Original Writing section of your coursework folder. You do not have to include it all; a selection of your best chapters will do fine. Click on the chapters - some have linked help available.

A PROMOTER WANTS TO HOLD A POP FESTIVAL IN WST SCHOOL GROUNDS.

Some local residents OBJECT STRONGLY. Others , especially teenagers, hope it WILL take place.

1. You are the promoter. Write a letter to be put in Bemerton Heath letterboxes.
It aims to REASSURE people that there will NOT be too loud noise from the site and that gangs will NOT be roaming the local streets.

2. Now write your speech to the Head and Governors making the case for a festival. Will it pay for a major facility, eg a covered pool?

3. You work for NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS. Write an interview with the promoter. He or she will say which acts will be booked, and why.
Set this out like a newspaper article and include illustrations. [On computer use FRONT PAGE]

4. Write a letter to the Journal AGAINST the festival. Then, as a local teenager, write a letter answering the first letter's objections. Set out both letters correctly.

Design the programme for the festival. Include HOW TO GET THERE, WHERE THE FESTIVAL SITE IS and other advice. List the acts and give info about each one.
Include a diagram or map.

6. You go to the festival. Describe your arrival, the camp site, the facilities and the acts.

7. Something is stolen from you. Go to the police caravan. Write out the conversations you have with a police constable. Use speech marks correctly.
OR
Wandering around the site, you meet your favourite star. Write out the conversation you have with him or her.

8. The morning after the festival. You come to help clear up and dismantle the stage. Describe litter-strewn, empty festival site.

9. Write the LEADING ARTICLE for the local paper the week after.
It should- in no uncertain terms- come out in favour of the festival or against it. It should SIMPLIFY and EXAGGERATE accordingly.

10. YOUR idea to complete this module of writing for English.

As you write each piece, remember who will read it or hear it. Choose your words, sentence length and style with care. Write drafts where appropriate.
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