Act 3 MindMap

Act 3

CLOWN ROUTINE
- Zero degrees sculptures life size puppet show
- ribbons
- clown movement as old fashioned music / silent movie
- pink panther double sided costume

Animal Taming
- Human juggling
- Me and Elle doing kart will
- Zach spot light  / animals copying actions

Animal Dance Routine
 - UV paint
- Project things (media)

Tim playing the drums whilst we use scarfs as juggling props!!!!VIDEO

Inspiration for drums Cirque du soleil



Blocking Act 3

CLOWN ROUTINE - With act 3 we divided the class up between three groups. Its the end of the show and we want something interesting, spectacular and visually pleasing for an audience. The first section is a clown routine for this we had Ben playing the piano to a traditional clown song, where Elle, Dani and Dylan made up a comedy sketch routine, they also added clown costumes to add to the effect.

ANIMAL TAMING ROUTINE - I was part of the animal taming routine. This dance started with Ben the 'ringmaster' and Josh jumping through hoops and tumbling showing acrobatic skills. Two at a time we all come on stage doing a trick. Charlotte and Amber juggle scarfs, Megan and Grace come on doing kicks and kart wills because they are reenacting tigers from the wild whereas me and Lauren are pretending to be snakes. To portray this we made ribbons to highlight snakes tongues and physiques. This routine is danced to, 'Lion King in the jungle the mighty jungle.' Then comes an upbeat tempo version of the song where the clowns come and chase us animals. This is devised with a rope to restrain the animals where i break free to do a double kart will with Elle Locke trying to convey a fighting scene, as well as tricks to make the show interesting. This routine is then followed on by the Animal Dance.

ANIMAL DANCE - I was part of the animal dance routine, for this we had all choreographed a dance with animalistic movements to portray that we were animals. We danced to the song Gorillas - Feel good ink.

At the end of this dance we finished with everyone on stage laying in a clump on the ground to show the finishing position of our circus show.

What went well?

The dances looked visually interesting and exciting for an audience. We were able to get across the humour in the clown routine. Costumes we had looked great and fitted in with the dances.

What didn't go well?

Josh couldn't pick up the routine and timing of the dance so needs some work and practise. When Elle Dylan and Dani exit off stage they pretend to be leaving in a car driving. To make the audience have a clearer understanding make car noises off stage for when they exit.

Things to improve?

Think about getting face masks for the end dance so the audience can understand we are animals. Practise the dance so everyone is confident with the choreography. Practise car noises.

At the end of the lesson we looked over act 2. It was lacking something and felt slightly boring and dragged on. We solved the problem by adding in humour this took part in the scene where Amy gives her long speech and lecture where she is telling us off, we add the humour by having myself walking up playing with a toy gun and pretending to shoot her which makes her jump this it to reengage the audience as well as reinforcing the idea that we are still school children messing around, because at times it felt this idea was lost.

As i have mentioned in one of my posts. Me and Elle say the majority of things at the same time, there come a time when I'm physically not attached to Elle as she has exited of stage and I'm on my own with the rest of the group i immediately change my vocal approach by lowering my voice and making myself sound and look sad, because I'm missing my sister. The line is, 'I can't do nothing without Midge'.