Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Had our first lesson on Elements of Drama today! =D
It was wonderful! ^-^ We played lots of games and without noticing, we had actually learnt alot while playing!
The games we played:
Witch and Child
Everyone formed a circle except for two people in the middle of the circle and everyone has to learn this simple script that goes:
W: Where are you going!
C: To Brickle to Brickle to get some woods
W: What for?
C: To heat the pot
W: What for?
C: To cook some Foul.
W: Where did you get it?
C: From your yard!
And the person that is acting as the child have to run out of the circle as fast as he/she can to avoid the witch from catching and the "trees" have to quickly let the child out and stop the witch from catching the child.
Skills:
- A short script to warm up with before starting a rehearsal
- Train focus as everyone have to work together to rescue the child!
- Vocal warm up as everyone have to say the script together with the child.
Lemonade
What is your name?
where are you from?
Whart have you got?
Give us some then!
Prue asked us to group into 3 groups and we are to discuss and come up with a game that we played before, back in those days (when we don't need to rush assignments during recess time and nothing to think about except for filling our stomach and have some fun!), and teach our the whole class. We discussed and each of us came up with a handful of games and finally decide on one that is easier to understand and teach, the Grandmother'f Footsteps.
Here goes the game that the first group teach:
Five cent coin
We are suppose to get into a big circle, one person to sit in the middle and one 5 cent coin passing around the big circle and that person sitting in the middle is suppose to guess where is the coin! It didn't sound very difficult but let me assure you that it was! Not for us though, for Shehana, who volunteered to sit in the middle. =D She was quite regretted after that =D but we all had fun and learnt something.
Skillls practiced:
- It is a great game to practice our vocal in a fun way as we have to keep saying "five cent coin ah five cnet coin" in a specific rhythm and everyone say it together therefore Shehana is like "Oh my goodness this is kind of scary when you are in here, it is like some kind of chantings!" haha.
- It is a nice game to practice coordination in a team we have to coordinate the rhythm that we "chant" with our hand movment which is something like "pretending" to take the five cend coin from the person at your right to your left hand, regardless if the coin is there or not!
- Train your focus, as if you are at any of the time unfocused the five cent coin will be exposed! and the person in the middle can see it if it is left on your hand for too long.
Grandmother's footsteps/ Grandma's footsteps
One person to be the old Gradmother who watches the television and the rest to be the naughty grand children who want to play a fool with the Grandmother! By slowly cripping towards the Grandmother and when the Grandmother turns and look back everyone is suppose to freeze and this was how we look like in the lesson just now!
Skillls practiced:
One person to be the old Gradmother who watches the television and the rest to be the naughty grand children who want to play a fool with the Grandmother! By slowly cripping towards the Grandmother and when the Grandmother turns and look back everyone is suppose to freeze and this was how we look like in the lesson just now!
Skillls practiced:
Pepsi Cola Game
One really exciting game! Each person can only take one step after the person before him/her done his/her step. The aim is to step on anyone's leg and be the winner of all. A video that shows the game:
Skillls practiced:
We get to learnt about
One really exciting game! Each person can only take one step after the person before him/her done his/her step. The aim is to step on anyone's leg and be the winner of all. A video that shows the game:
Skillls practiced:
We get to learnt about
Elements of Drama
Role
Dramatic Tension
Focus
Place/Space
Time
Movement
Language
Symbol
Mood
There are three elements that helps in the motivation of the ROLE. They are the Status, the Purpose and the Attitude.
Food of the Day:
Drama seems to be happening in our everyday's life, that inculde the time we are playing! Today I learnt that you can actually learn alot of things while having fun.
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