Mr Kelly Storytelling Goldilocks 8th may

In todays lesson we Finished off the story, We created alot of new images, for example, we made the bears beds and the table that the porridge goes on. The longest thing we spent on with the shadowing was the actual house, it was very difficult to make a cottage using shadows, however when we did manage to, it looked really effective, we had a chimney on the top to make sure the audience know its a cottage. We decided today that we would have Freya narrating the story, although this may sound a bit strange and sounds like it may ruin the effects, i feel that it will help the children to understand what is going on in the story. We also made the decision in the lesson to perform in our own school, that way we will be able to use our stage, and also it should look really professional because by that point, we would have practiced it on stage a good few times, also it will be fun for the kids to travel up to our school and will be an exciting experience for them.

Ive found out from doing silouhette work is that i have to be focused all of the time, because if your in another scene and forget to go on, it will ruin the whole piece, every shadow counts, if one person is missing the object doesn't look as it should, the children loose engagement because they can't follow the storyline and the whole thing goes kaput. So its imperative that i stay focused. Also the transitions between scenes need to be smooth ones. We decide to roll off which will show that there has been a scene change, the reason for us doing this is that it clearly shows we are changing the scene and moving on with the story, if we didn't and just casually walked off, it would look unprofessional and the audience would get confused.