Theatre For Children: Sixth Lesson

Wednesday 8th october

Performance workshop

We show Josie our scene this week and had a hour to come up with more ideas or go over with what we come up already. We come up we scene for before the chasing scene, so when we show Josie, she said we should added some talking when we are doing the sack scene and that we should come up with some more ideas for when we try to catch Mel because we thought as I’m Dora the explorer we would use the song for the show called “backpack song”  to help us find things that would stop Mel so we already use a net so we could uses Mathew in a wig to try and get Mel or dig a hole and try and get Mel to fall in to it.

Theatre for Children

We had a practitioner come in to help us with our play. He was called Anaish Nathan Parmar and I found it really interesting because he told us about being in a theatre show called “In the night garden” and he was saying about how the man who created this show look at young children sociology and listening the man who created this show was really fascinating. We did puppetry which was really good fun because we got to try different size puppets and trying to get them to come alive in your hands. He told about committing yourself to the character because children can know when it’s someone pretend that you’re doing that character because children can ingrain with the character and  believe that they are there in the scene as it like real life.  This helps me get more focus on my character and I feel like I need to know more about my character and about what she does and how she moves so the children can really engage with our scene.

My research

Cbeebie is run by the BBC but is operated by the BBC children division and part of BBC north.  It is controlled by kay Benbow (who I wrote a letter to). The director of Children’s is Joe Godwin and has been in that position since late 2009. The children division is in control of CBBC an older children show. The shows on Cbeebie is timetable so they are the same all on at the same time on week days but a different times on weekend so the children know the different for the weekend and the week days. Cbeebie do a range of children shows that have the themes, simple science, natural history, music and movement, storytelling, make up and make do, puzzle programmes and animation. Here are some of the different shows they play on Cbeebie: Justin’s house, Chuggington, the Octonauts, Nina and the neurons. I still haven’t received a letter from Cbeebie.

Till next time

Jenny