Week 2 - Drama Lecture

 Week 2:

Drama Lecture - 15/3/13

In today’s lecture, we covered a range of topics, which included focusing on a critical moment in fairytales, historical and contemporary depictions of fairytale characters in print and film media, exploring narrative structure, character relationships and status on role. One experience I focused on was on ‘to make a good story we need’... this incorporated linear narrative (going forward), tension, characters, settings, coda, and story structure. This lead to my experience through critically reflecting on fairytales by focusing on what happens to the characters after the story. This highly links to Media Arts when looking at the seven parts to a story/film. Overall, from this experience the implications I take aboard for my future teaching is I would provide the structure of the story to the students as from what I learnt today it would empower the students to look upon the story. I would teach the students on how to communicate with the story, know how to construct and deconstruct a story, which leads to further discussion when making connections with the story and making meaning for an audience.

 

 

Week 1: Introductory Lecture

 

Discover a world of fairy tales...

Week 1:

Lecture 1 - 8/3/13

In today’s introductory lecture, we were introduced to the Fairytales and their significance in children’s lives. This entailed me and other peers to brainstorm a variety of Fairytales that we knew and ones that we were familiar with in our early years of life. We named fairytales like, the Princess and the Pea, Hanson and Gretel, Peter Pan, and many more. A great discussion arose on whether the story of the three little pigs was classified as a fairytale or not. This allowed me to think about my early years experiences up until today’s lecture, which shifted my perception to looking at how fairytales have been modified over time ‘before and after’ and how they are presented nowadays as oppose to the past.  Therefore, Victoria read the book ‘the true story of the three little pigs’ which lead to a great discussion on how fairytales were fractured over time and the changes that were made to the fairytale. As a result, 3 of my peers and myself grouped together and focused on a critical moment from the fairytale Cinderella, where we each took on a role of a character discussed the elements of drama (Space, Contrast, focus) and bringing the characters together to make it come alive.

 

Welcome to EDUP 3008 Creative Arts 2

'Welcome to a world of fantasy, where imagination takes you far beyond your expectations and creativity leads itself to a world of wonders..'

 

Hello and welcome to my EDUP3008 Reflective Scrapbook! My name is Souha Malak and I am currently in my 3rd year at the University of Sydney studying a Bachelor of Primary Education. This blog is for the EDUP3008 Creative Arts subject which covers drama, media arts, and visual arts.

Nowadays, we see that technology is  growing rapidly which will continue to progress in the future, as you can see by this blog itself! . 

 
My blogs will be specifically about my experiences in each of the EDUP3008 workshops, which will include entries from each of the creative art-forms: Drama, Visual Arts and Media Arts. My entries will be supported with critical reflections detailing 'the experience', wider readings and future
implications for teaching as well as images and videos to support my reflections and ideas.