Sleeping Bunnies was an exercise we took part in as a group. It was a interesting task and also quite weird but fun because we got to act like young children. Sleeping Bunnies is a kids game. When you hear the music start you have to fall asleep and pretend to be a 'sleeping bunny'. When you hear the voice say "wake up little bunnies" the whole class gets up and hops around the room like bunnies. This was a good exercise for our class because it made us become more comfortable acting weird together. Also it gave us the opportunity to let our minds become free and feel like we are little children again. Therefore we can think like a child so we know what our audience will and will not like.
Remembering a vivid dream
We were then given the task to remember a vivid dream from when we were a small child. This was a good task to help us to remember what we liked as a young kid. Remembering our dreams gave us the chance to remember how imaginative and creative we were as children and we realized how big of an imagination young children have, so therefore we could incorporate our thoughts and ideas into our piece we will be showing for 'Little People's Day'.
Imagine you are in the dream, moving around the room: making it bigger; slow motion
This task was good because it helped us to understand how we would act out our dream, giving us a chance to think about how we could make 'An Awesome Book' into a piece of theatre. However making it interesting and exciting for our young audience.
Describe your dream to a partner
This was helpful to us because we got to listen to another person's dream from when they were younger. This helped us to widen our imagination even further and understand the creativity and imagination of a child.
Describing your dream to a partner from a distance, where you have to be physically bigger
This was a good exercise because it helped us to think of way to communicate to our partner and let them know what we are trying to say with other people talking in the background. This was a good task because it helped us to try and communicate through our body language without having the power of our voice- which is a key skill in theatre. Little kids do not understand everything you say so doing this exercise was a way of finding ways on using your bodies so that children can understand what you are trying to say to them as they do not understand all of English.
This was a good exercise because it helped us to think of way to communicate to our partner and let them know what we are trying to say with other people talking in the background. This was a good task because it helped us to try and communicate through our body language without having the power of our voice- which is a key skill in theatre. Little kids do not understand everything you say so doing this exercise was a way of finding ways on using your bodies so that children can understand what you are trying to say to them as they do not understand all of English.
Creating a sound/movement machine
This was an exercise where we individually had to think of a movement and sound to do. Mr Crowther then told us to one by one get up and add to the machine, joining each movement so it looked somewhat connected. This was good because it got us to focus as a whole class and it also got us to be able to work together as a professional theatre company. It built trust between us. Also the machine gave the idea of different dreams. There was so many different sounds and movements going on that could represent so many different dreams. Constructing: this represented different dreams coming into the picture and the idea that you could have as many dreams as you like in your own personal dream machine. Destructing: Representing that dreams fade away but it is wrong and they shouldn't fade away. You should pursue your wildest dreams. Slow motion: Gives the effect of time passing or your dreams lasting for a long time or 'forever'. Speeding up: could represent the idea of your dreams being so fast that people can't keep up with you and that your dreams can be whatever you like.
Moving around the room and then in numbers creating elements of different dreams. The elements fed back by the group were:
- Money
- Bull dogs
- Dinosaurs
- Stepping stones
- Flying
- Medieval
- Giant Frog
- Sweet food
- Princesses
- Concrete Jungle
- Night into Day
- Super Powers
- Marshmallow clouds
- Butter icing quicksand
- Tropical Tightrope
- Caramel filled chocolate iced hedgehog
- Heroes and Villains
- Fire breathing shoe
- Sunbathing aliens
- Swimming under water
- Mermaids
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