Friday, 12 June 2015

Session 1 - An Extremely Focused and Committed start to the project.........

Please find below a break down of the aspects/ exercises that were covered during the first session. You should look to explain each of the exercises and reflect on their relevance to the project as a whole and the target audience (under 4's). 

Read through assignment brief and watched delivery of the Book and also the Author discussing his reasons for/ journey of the Writing. 

Sleeping bunnies.

Remembering a vivid dream.

Imagine you are in the dream moving around the room: making it bigger; slow motion.

Describing your dream to a partner.

Describing your dream to a partner from a distance, where you have to be physically bigger.

Creating a Sound/ Movement machine.
  • Constructing 
  • De-constructing
  • Slow motion
  • Speeding up



Moving around the room and then in numbers creating elements of different dreams. The elements fed back by the group were:
  • Money
  • Bull dogs
  • Dinosaurs
  • Stepping stones
  • Flying
  • Medieval
  • Giant Frog
  • Sweet food
  • Princesses
  • Concrete Jungle
  • Night into Day
  • Super Powers
  • Marshmallow clouds and butter icing quicksand Tropical Tightrope Caramel filled chocolate iced hedgehog Heroes and Villains Fire breathing shoe Sunbathing aliens Swimming under water Mermaids


Devising what a world without dreams might look like. In groups of 5/6. 

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Check out the Book we're responding to for 'Little People's Day.......


AN AWESOME BOOK by Dallas Clayton






Questions:
What is your first opinion of the book?
Why has it been selected for our 'Little People's day' audience?

Lesson 1 Homework Tasks


Devising skills

What devising skills did we discuss today?
Which of these skills are you most confident in using?

Children's Theatre 

Our piece is for a very specific audience. Why is theatre for children so valuable?

Please go on the following websites and do some research on what both companies do.


  • Who are they?
  • Who do they make work for?
  • What's on at the moment?
  • How might these companies help us with the work we are devising?

 http://www.polkatheatre.com/



 https://www.unicorntheatre.com/




Log questions: 

What activities did we do today? 
What ideas did you/your group come up with?  
Why have you chosen some of these ideas to develop further? You need to EXPLAIN WHY? 
Why did you reject some of the ideas? You need to EXPLAIN WHY? 
What acting skills/performance skills are you using? EXPLAIN WHY these are suitable for the piece and the target audience.  


If you use any internet pages/pictures/quotes in your answers you must say where you found the information by cutting and pasting the website under the work you have included.