The beginning of our Superman performance!

Tuesday I had no lesson because I had my final English oral :(

Thursday lesson we spent going through the blogs and how we need to improve and go into more depth! Our blog is going to be very important when it comes to our TPPP's and it is also a part of our course to have a journal.
Mr Fearnehough asked if he could use my blog as an example to correct and know where to add more reflections and examples. I don't mind using my blog because it will help myself and everyone else.
After going through my blog again, I understand that the things I need to improve on is :

• making links to other parts of the course
• going into more depth
• explaining the points I make

After such a busy week with tonnes of advice and points with the workshop, I did not talk about everything that I should have. It was good to go through the blog and talk about what we needed to improve. I have corrected the blog and will now continue to keep my blog updates with many examples and in depth because it is important that I understand things for when I go back on for my TPPP.

Friday in our double lesson, we had two hours to create our Action Plan for Bunraku and also come up with our next moves!
Creating the action plan now was quite good because it meant that we had to think about everything we had already done and this also meant we ended up reflecting of these things as a result because of discussion. We then had to think about what we need to do now for our Bunraku project and that is to create a performance and then perform!
Having the double session gave us chance to think about all the things we need to think about for our performance. We don't have long to create and practice so I find that we got a lot done in this lesson.
As we already did a short performance to some of Primary, we know that we want to go back there and do something bigger and better. They also demanded we do a performance that they can see!
As we knew our target audience, we had to think of a message and idea that is suitable for a younger audience. We have main goals and that is that we want our piece to be entertaining and educational!
We thought about the problems a younger child would be facing and wanted to create a piece that can be educational. Some of the ideas we came up with were:

• cheating on a test
• waste of water, food, electricity, paper...
• being friendly
• manners/respect
• Being left out

Our idea we like the most because there is more of an issue to do with school life and home life, also it will be something educational.
As we only have one puppet and we need three people to operate one puppet and there is only three of us, we had to think of solutions to the way our story would go with just one puppet and if it was actually possible.
We know that children love super heros and goodies/baddies so we took this idea of having our puppet waste food and then a devil and angel tell him what is right and he is persuaded to not waste things, he then becomes a super hero.
I think that our idea is brilliant because it fits perfectly to children and is also fun and educational which are our main goals! Thrashing out all these ideas on paper really helped us to share our ideas and combine ideas together.
We were influenced by the handspring puppet company to add some shadow puppetry into our piece too. They used it in their show and we think that it would be good to add in more types of puppetry into our piece and it would also work very well to show the devil and angel part.
Having all of these ideas come into place makes me excited and I hope that they work out well! We should start to work on our performance physically now!