Week 3:
Drama Workshop 1 – 21/3/13
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future” (Steel, D).
In Today’s drama workshop 1, we created a storyboard (narrative) for our critical moment of our chosen fairytale ‘Cinderella’ and presented our work in the form of a storyboard. As a group, we decided to focus on the critical moment where Cinderella watches her stepmother and stepsisters getting ready for the ball and she comes along thinking she is going but then her evil stepmother takes away Cinderella's dream. We drew pictures of our critical moment in a series of events and came up with a narrative on what is happening under each scene of the storyboard. Together we presented our critical moment scene of Cinderella to the class were we role played each scene and read our narrative to the class while improvising for the some of the events we drew. For future implications for my teaching, I would utilise this activity into my classroom, as it is fun and engaging for students where students work together as a team and improvise together a script for their chosen fairytale. This allows students to take on a persona and trait, which therefore students input is valued and all the elements of creative arts are explored and demonstrated through role-play, film, and artworks. “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”(Albert Einstein).
NA, (2013). Quotes about fairy tales: Good Reads Inc, retrieved 23rd March 2013 from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fairy-tales