Mr kelly silouhette work 5th May

In todays lesson we again put of the silouhette sheet, and worked on our shadow story telling, I really enjoyed creating objects, for example when we made the forest that Goldilocks walks in, i became a tree with a few other of my classmates, one of us is quite good at making shadows and could make a bird, so they used their hands to show a bird flying around the tree, which looked really good. It took us a while to get used to acting with shadows, we spent quite a few lessons learning how to work with shadows. We have been working through the Goldilocks storyline, trying to get the shadows to look real, it looks good so far. In one part i have to become a building, which looks good because i make the building with another person to bulk the shape out. It looks really realistic. We also spent some time watching shadow movement videos of professionals performing on stage, to see how we can use our bodies to make different things. In the next lesson we will probably re-cap everything we have done so far, and then start to work on some more of the story, I'm looking forward to new scenes because it means we have to become different things. Overall I'm very pleased that we picked to do silhouette work because it will be fun and interesting for the children, and will keep them engaged for the whole duration. Its a great storytelling technique, but will have to be nailed with precision and accuracy, in order for the children to understand what the story is about, and what our shadows are.