Week 5 "Bringing Puppets to life"- Drama workshop

 

I want to go to the ball!!

 

In today’s workshop (11.4.13) we were assigned to perform our critical Moment scene of our chosen Fairy Tale. My Group and I chose the scene of Cinderella wanting to go the ball, were she is watching her step sisters and step mother get ready. Poor Cinderella is all dressed up thinking she’s going to the ball. During our workshop we were given the opportunity to create our puppets through the use of materials such as, newspaper, net, balloons, elastic ties, etc. Before we begun making our puppets we wrote up a short script to use when performing our Scene. I created and improvised on being Cinderella where I used a balloon to form her head, a blue net as her dress and string and her hair. This workshop allowed my group and I to focus on the movement and voice for each character, the relationship between the characters which can be seen in the video (hate, evil and jealousy relationship) and the manipulation of the elements of drama- TENSION was used in our video where were able to demonstrate the relationship between Cinderella and the evil step mother

As a Pre-service teacher allowing students to perform their critical moment scene allows students to explore how puppets are brought into life within a dramatic context, where they are allowed to further work with their voice, movement and improvise. Students become engaged and feel a sense of appreciation .Through this experience, as a future teacher, I now believe that puppets are a great way to stimulate children’s imagination and build the confidence of the most reluctant students. They are also an effective interactive way of introducing the concept of narratives to students who may need more practical means of engaging with stories (Greensmith, A. 2012).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z08titE6s1A&feature=youtu.be



This is the script that my Gorup and I came up with when performing our critical moment scene of Cinderella- its a 30 second script

Greensmith, A. (2012). Puppets in education. The Creativity Institute. Retrieved on April 11, 2013 from: http://www.creativityinstitute.com/puppetsineducation.aspx