Double Performing Arts Lesson (20th November 2015)

In Today's lesson we began with our focus exercise. Once we completed our exercise we all discussed what we each believed we needed to work on in this lesson. We all agreed that we needed a run through of 'The Race' scene so that we were all comfortable with the transactions between scenes.
After this we moved on 'Boggis's chicken farm' This scene starts after 'Starvation Ends'. We decided to work on the transaction between the two scenes so we thought about movement of a fox and how we could link that in so we created a movement based transaction where Mr Fox and the two cubs ducked under roots, dashed behind hedges weaved in and our of trees. During this Lewis discovered the perfect song choice to accompany this transaction called 'Sneaky Snitch' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SjOkb3kVgI)

We then added a sudden jump from the fox's (as if they were jumping through a hole or over a fence into the farm),  following this movement Charlie Lorna and James look around in delight at all the delicious chickens. Lorna then begins to complain that she 'can't carry anymore chickens' and they jump back through the hole and reverse the entire movement from the start as if they were going back the exact same way. This then transcends into them being back in their hole moving into 'A surprise for Mr Fox' and 'Bunce's Duck House'. We decided to keep it simple for the little children (always thinking about target audience) we would keep this scene exactly the same as the previous scene. However we decided to speed it up so the kids wouldn't get bored.

However we spent the majority of the lesson working on 'Bean's Cider Cellar'. This scene needed a lot more work because this scene was the introduction of Mole (Me), Rabbit (Lewis), Badger (Olly) and Rat (Lorna). We created dialogue for Mr Fox and Rats confrontation. Unfortunately once we ran that a few times we ran out of time and weren't able to complete the scene. However we set ourselves the task of completing it for next lesson. 

 For, "Boggis' Chicken Farm," Lorna has painted some chickens which will be very effective props. Also, Ollie has written up all of his narration for the scenes we went through in this lesson.