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We decided to make clear what props and costumes we need and we already have for our play as individual characters, so next time we have everything ready.

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This are things we need to practice more as involving big clear movements and which and how many songs we have in our play. This lesson of today helped us to view how to solve our problems in the play, his includes the part of the shadow which is a fast way of showing our transitions of the mom pregnant with Rapunzel till witch taking away Rapunzel as a baby, we wanted to show all of this as a shadow (we thought it could have take us less time to do it like that as we got 20 minutes to perform our play).

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Today we had to perform

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The witch is my character in the play here i will be explaining you how i gave life to this character.

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Rapunzels birth mother:

Dilan Kizildag

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Singing lesson helped us to rehearse each of the songs in our play and show each other our lyrics. I focused in my witch song which i was playing it to the rest of my group whom agree with it., after it, the narrator gave me the idea of she knowing the way of recording the melody by an electrical piano, we will see if it works. We also decided what key props we needed for this Thursday.

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We all agree that today was the day of showing off our costumes. My costume is still shipping nut i still wanted to support my group by wearing a black long dress i have. Virginia and i we had last night making the brick wall of the tower background. In the end, we all had a good rehearsal.
Lesson 10/01/19 (COSTUMES TALK)
We focus our day into our costumes or props, so we had a very long talk about our ideas and opinions for this task. We can see here some of the idea that inspirited us.  https://youtu.be/g2DEPauMo2k

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This was dancing lesson where we focuses on presenting a piece of our performance. Today it was completely different as my character had change of songs so i wasn't confident enough with the new rhythm and as i didn't learnt the song it was really difficult to act inside my character whom moves a lot and reading my lines, we also need to work out in how to not have dead time this includes in our running part. I hope next lesson we apply what we learn today

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Today we had to take Tuesday's feedback about our performance and make a better play and performance for next lesson. We only had one problem we had to solve, two of our classmates weren't in, so we had to make the scene again, with new ideas which we all contribute them and work together to have a better an proud performance. Some of the amazing ideas was to all of us went to the changing rooms and take all the props that we thought can help to develop our play, also the use of level to demonstrate the power of each character, and the importance of projection reason why is to make sure the audience understand clearly each of the characters feelings, propose and personalities. To help into the comedian side of the play we introduces jokes and funny discussions between them. As this was a difficult play because wasn't for the specific ages of our expected audience we had to create our younger context script.

Finally, in our last lesson we performed our play, which had turn in a really good way showing how much improves we made, this showedme how to solve problems for the future plays.

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TV progame for children how they made it to engage?

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We presented the lyrics of our octopus song which we have a recording of it. Then we started rehearsing the play of Danny, the champion of the world. We had to performed at the end of the lesson, if i'm honest was a really horrible rehearsal because we didn't work together. here where people who wanted to direct the whole play and not listen to other ideas so it was a mess.  I hope next rehearsal we can get on with our work.

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This is an introductory task about the needs of the target audience.

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We started the lesson by warming up: running, jumping touching the sky and touching the floor, also following directions from our class prep. who directed the activity.
We have been put on groups where later on we had to research about a book Darren gave us and choose a chapter and make up the scene performing it. What we did first was research about our book. 'Danny the champion of the world' by Roald Dahl. We choose the chapter 'HACCUSATIONS', we located the characters, and we read the scene.

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Danny, the Champion of the World is a 1975 children's book by Roald Dahl. The plot centres on Danny, a young English boy, and his father, William, who live in a Gypsy caravan fixing cars for a living and partake in poaching pheasants. It was first published in 1975 in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape.

It was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 1989 by Thames Television which starred Jeremy Irons.
Danny is only four months old when his mother dies, and at the beginning of the book, he lives with his widowed father, William, in a gypsy caravan, where William operates a service station and a garage. When Danny is nine years old, he discovers that William has regularly participated in poaching pheasants owned by local magnate, Mr. Victor Hazell. One morning later, at 2:10 am, Danny discovers William's absence; and out of fear of some misfortune, he drives an Austin Seven to Hazell's Wood, where he finally finds William in a trap, incapacitated by a broken ankle, and takes him home. While William recovers from his injury, he and Danny discover that Mr. Hazell's annual pheasant launch party is approaching, which he welcomes to dukes, lords, barons, baronets, wealthy businessmen, etc., and they decide to humiliate him by capturing all the pheasants in the forest. To this end, Danny suggests that he and William place the contents of the sleeping pills prescribed by their surgeon, Doc Spencer, into the raisins that the pheasants will eat; and William calls this new method the "Sleeping Beauty".

After having hunted 120 pheasants from Hazell's Wood, William and Danny take a taxi (driven by a fellow poacher) to the house of the local vicar, where they hide the pheasants, and afterwards walk home. The next day, Mrs. Grace Clipstone, the vicar's wife, delivers the sleeping pheasants in a specially built large baby carriage, but the narcotic wears off and many of them try to escape. Still drugged, every one alights around the service station, just as Mr. Hazell arrives. With the help of Sergeant Enoch Samways, the village policeman, William and Danny shoo the stunned pheasants over (and in some cases inside) Mr. Hazell's Rolls Royce, damaging the car's paintwork. As Mr. Hazell leaves disgraced, all of the pheasants wake up completely and fly away in the opposite direction from Hazell's property, and his shooting party is ruined. The book ends when Danny is hailed as "the champion of the world" by William, Doc Spencer and Sgt. Samways. In addition, six pheasants have died of a sleeping pill overdose, so Sgt. Samways, Mrs Clipstone and William and Danny each get two. William and Danny then walk into town, intending to buy a new oven to cook their pheasants, and later plan to do some trout-tickling in a nearby wood.

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(5/11/18)
Today we just go into computers to finish creating our CV's.

(6/11/18)
We where sent to look  for kids stories, pick one in our groups and decide where to add songs or melody. We found a story called ''The rainbow fish'' by Marcus Pfister, we read and got into the conclusion of where to put the songs. That is first when one little fish ask him if he can have one of his scales and he says no, the second song is when he went to visit the octopus we thought the octopus may be the next one singing in a jazz old song and finally in the end of the story when he is happy giving to other his scales. Then we came back to class and we present it to the rest and we got as homework picking on the story one song and making actual lyrics as demonstration of what we will be doing in this project.

(8/11/18)

We started the lesson by relaxing and focusing through a activity, we was separated in difference places an focusing a point of the wall and try not to lose focus, after this had the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll which i number by stanzas, read it in my mind and highlighted the powerful words and then i user my hands to transfer my voice whispered into my ears so i can hear without anyone's else listening to me. Therefore, i wrote what the poem make me feel and we made groups we decided how to help each other to get to the centre by saying what this poem makes us feel. Then with the same groups we had to take 5 objects and create  a quick game. then in Neil's lesson we  talked about theatre for children which we had to research about the Polka theatre.

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Keep a record of your problem solving using this worksheet

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Keep a record of your problem solving using this worksheet

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You should aim to complete at least two reflections on rehearsals every week. These should be for a mixture of classes, in which you are directly developing your performance and production roles. Don't forget to reflect on both roles.

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Rapunzel- company contract

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The importance of being safe during our performances, rehearsals and lessons.