Double - Children's Theatre - Individual Work - 06/12/15

Throughout this unit, we have worked together to devise scenes, come up with ideas and of course decided the play we were going to perform! However, there have been instances where I have done things outside of lesson individually in order to further our performance!

Cider Jar and Poultry Meat cardboard cut-outs!

Firstly, Lorna started making some of the props including poultry meat and a large cider jar (pictured left)! I helped her by cutting the chickens out, going over the edges with black marker again (as after cutting them out, the edges weren't even no longer) and helping her reinforce them as the cardboard would be very floppy with just one layer, whilst she drew and painted the props themselves and reinforced them also.

Additionally, we needed some music/sound effects for the show as some of the more exciting scenes would be very boring without it. After we, as a group, found the music for, "Boggis' Chicken House Raid," and "Bunce's Duck and Goose House Raid," I looked into finding some music for other scenes. The song we found was called, "Sneaky Snitch," and was made by Kevin MacLeod. I already had knowledge on the composer and creator of the track and I knew he was a very well known producer of royalty-free, instrumental music! I looked into his archive of songs on Spotify and found many more songs for other scenes! Below is the list of songs I found and what scenes they were used in:

• "Hidden Agenda," - The sneaking in, "Bean's Cider Cellar Scene."
• "Arcadia," - When the animals broke into the cellar and they saw all the wonderful cider in, "Bean's Cider Cellar Scene."
• "Scheming Weasel," (x2 due to the original track being too short) - When Rat appears in, "Bean's Cider Cellar Scene."

Finally, during the early days of devising we decided that for the Farmer's scenes, we wouldn't bother devising these scenes in class and we'd have someone devise and script them outside of class; I stepped up to this task! I wrote a script for Scene 2: The Three Farmers Introduction (was previously Scene 1), Scene 3: The Plan For Shooting, and Scene 6: We'll Never Let Him Go! I also wrote a script for what would've been Scene 13: Still Waiting but we thought this scene would remove from the atmosphere of, "The Great Feast," scene. Upon bring these scripts into lesson, everyone was happy with them and they only needed minor changes made to make them work with the rest of the scenes.