Double Performing Arts Lesson (18th November 2015)

In today's lesson we moved on from our Greek Mythology unit to our new unit which is story telling. As a group we could chose any story we wanted original or conventional and we have to devise a piece from the story.
To start this off we decided to write down as a group all the methods and techniques of story telling.
These included-

1. Tone/pitch/volume/pace of voice from the story teller
2. Sound fx
3. Dialogue/monologue/choral speaking
4. Props
5. Movement/dance/physical theatre 
6. Placards

Lewis gave an idea of creating a completely original story and devising that however I believed it would take a lot longer than if we just used a story that already existed, therefore I began to think of ideas. I gave a few suggestions such as Pinocchio and Frozen.

Miss Cordell said we shouldn't do Frozen but we could do the original story of Frozen which was called 'The Snow Queen'. 

We also discussed Dr Seuss as an option. However we realised our main point for our story idea was our audience, we agreed that we should aim for our own age group as we would know the sort of things they like, therefore we believed Dr Seuss might be a bit young for our target audience however the story of 'The Snow Queen' was quite a mysteriously dark story and we began to investigate the story closer. We began reading through the story and decided we wanted to explore it more so we chose it as our story telling piece. Therefore we printed off copies for each person and started throwing out ideas for how we can start the piece. 

We started thinking about how we would portray the story so we agreed to narrate the story. As there were 7 parts to the story we thought it would be logical for each of us to narrate a part. We decided that we needed the strongest 2 narrators to start and end the story therefore Lorna was chosen to speak first and Olly was chosen to speak 7th. After this we agreed that we would each devise our own scene.

 For the last 15/20 minutes of the lesson we began on Lorna's scene. All we got done so far was assign our starting positions (the all loosely positioned, spread out and facing different directions), and decided some movement. We make two small jagged movements, hunching over on the words poor and mean and shooting up with one large jagged movement on the word, "Magnified."
For homework, we will all devise each of the parts assigned to us e.g. I have to devise scene 4.