When our school amalgamated our community revisited the school values, deciding on resilience, relationships and respect. I reworked our Performing Arts area ‘rules’ to align with them.
Media Arts
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: Shadow Puppets
The Three Billy Goats Gruff story lends itself marvelously for drama explorations. With only two characters ‘on-stage’ at any one time it’s also ideal for small-group puppetry. This download is a set of character silhouettes that are ideal for use as shadow puppets. Just cut the shapes out, glue on sticks and away you go. Students
Silent Movies, Musicless Videos & Bad Lip Reading
My current middle school performing arts unit is on Film Sound and traditionally students demonstrate their knowledge of Foley sound by recording a short video and adding sound effects to it. This year we’ve utilised the rich diversity that is youtube and made use of the many silent movies, musicless videos and bad-lip reading videos
Tags: Bad lip reading, Foley, Musicless Videos, Silent Movies, Sound editing