day 5 in the morning we did children theartre where we discussed Narritive which is in short the children's stories eg fairy tails and the standard story lines:romance, revenge,quest, ect. in every story we have the 4 main characters :

the hero

the sidekick

the damsel

and the villian

in small groups we devised short play's in which we had to perform whilst thinking at what is suitable for the children to see and hear doing so we learnt:

the use of language/joke suitable for the kids
the clearness and projection of the lines spoken to the audiance
the exaggerated tones and expressions
the importance for the audiance to understand the plot, what's being said and what ever else that's going on
we also learnt that it was harder than we thought to creat a play than improvising lines.

And then we did MIME where we had to use only are hands to create a mime and then build a scene in pairs around whatever mime was devised. the important things to remember about mime is to lock onto the objected your miming to look at and make it believable and clear to the audiance.

Apple task: we had to use our imagination to create the illusion of eatting an invisable apple. how we picked the aplle up eat it and handled the apple is very important.

String task: in this excercise we had to mime picking up the string and tieing a knot in it again it was important to make it clear and believable eg tieing it slowly or clear movements to create the illusion of tieing the knot.

11/9/2012