Drama Lesson Nine

Drama Lesson Nine
We all performed a full run of each of our pieces for our current piece of theatre, this includes the activities and a rough layout.

My Groups Performance Analysis
What Went Well - The activities world well and all the children participated. We split the children into groups quickly and affectively. We used a song to create more audience participation, such as one you would see in a pantomime. We have a diverse range of characters to help create an interesting and gripping story in hopes that the audience will connect with the characters.

Even Better If - We all need to learn the introduction to our piece so that it doesn't seem scripted and so that it all seems more realistic to the children; it will also make our piece look more professional. We need to create better props, for example we need to create rocks for our activity 'The Floor is Lava' so that the children do not slip and hurt themselves (we could use the rubber spots that use in the physical eduction lessons). We all need to use a different vocal approach because we sound like ourselves rather than the monsters we are performing as. We need to create ideas for transitions between each activity so that they are not going straight from one activity to the next.

We are making our piece appealing to children by using a pantomime song to help us 'scare away' the evil King Garry, as well as incorporating different activities such as: the floor is lava, linking the riddle to the correct answer, feeding Daniel the Dragon his magic cereal so that he will tell his mystical story.

We are going to have three to four different areas that we will use through out our piece; each areas will have a different activity. We will use the first area to introduce our story and roughly explain what the children will be doing; in the next area we will have the riddles and their answers for the children to link to receive the magic bowl, spoon and cereal. The next area will be where they have to cross the lava floor to reach Daniel's lear. The last area will be where the children will feed Daniel his cereal, then they will all sit down and listen to Daniel tell his mystical story.

We are hoping to use a smoke machine in Daniel's lear so that it looks mysterious and it will help to portray the idea that Daniel is a dragon. We will use blue and green lighting in the lear to create the idea os being in a cave. We will use red, yellow and orange lights in the 'lava floor' area to help create the atmosphere of fire and lava. We will use pink and purple lights for the riddles area to help create a contrast between the mental activities and the physical ones. For example, solving the riddles will be light and happy colours, whereas crossing the 'lava floor' and feeding Daniel his cereal will be darker, more aggressive colours.

I feel that as a whole class we need to create imaginative ideas to link and transition from one story to the next, so that they flow and do not feel like they are just three random stories with just the same world to link the.