Double Performing Arts Lesson (16th November 2015)

In today's lesson for the first part we all sat down and created a checklist of the things we needed to get done in this lesson.

THIS LIST INCLUDED

1. Creating 'The Race' scene

2. Finishing off 'The Shooting' scene

3. Devising 'The Great Feast' 

Our plan for 'The Race' began with the narrator (Olly) reading the corresponding part in the book. "As the farmers mounted their tractors' (Lewis James and I) we climbed onto the table and pretended to dig. The Fox's (Charlie, Rhiannon and Lorna) Stood in a line and pretended to run away from us making it look like they were trying to get over the finish line as Mr Fox (Charlie) celebrates. 

For 'The Shooting' scene' We began with the farmers in the audience as if they were hiding from Mr Fox. As He begins to sniff around as if he smells us, the drums (spoken about in last blog) begins and stops when he shouts 'FRIED CHICKEN!!' We sneak around the back, with me (Boggis) stepping in fox poo and James almost giving our position away. Then we crouch down (under the orders of Bean) and attempt to kill Mr Fox. At this moment in the show Charlies begins his matrix rolls to dodge the bullets until Bean shoots his tail off and James and I both run for the tail and fight over it. 

Finally we devised our 'Great Feast scene'

For this scene I discussed the idea with Lewis to have Rabbit (Lewis) and Mole (Me) who left the cider cellar raid early beginner this scene with Mrs Fox and Baby Fox (Lorna). Also having Badger ( Olly/Narrator) involved in the story. We had the idea for Rabbit, Mole and Badger to come in holding chairs spinning them round making the scene more interesting. However we got stuck on a way of re-introducing Mr Fox into the scene so we scrapped that idea. 

After long discussions with Olly, the three of us decided to discuss the scene with the whole class and after lengthy discussions we based our idea for the scene off our original idea, we decided to have everyone start the scene holding food and plates and trays and stuff like that weaving in and out of each other. This technique is called a 'round by through'. I learnt this in a frantic assembly workshop. Therefore we didn't need to re-introduce anyone into the scene if they're all in it so we've already solved the problem we had at the start and decided that once all the plates were down Mr Fox would propose a toast mocking the farmers.

Miss McSherry then gave us the idea to end the production on a song because she gave the great point that kids would like a song. Therefore once the toast has been made we all break out into song and dance to keep the kids occupied and finish the production on an exciting note for the kids.