Drama, Characters in Commedia Dell Arte

Here is a reminder of the characters you studied.


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                                                               Pantalone & Arlecchino.

Il Dottore  & Flavio and Isabella.

Zanni & Il Capitano

Drama An introduction to Commedia Dell Arte Characters.

L9            

For this lesson you worked in groups of 4 or 5.

The learning was to be led by you.

The lesson was divided into the following parts.

1. You were given 10 minutes to discover “ what is Commedia Dell Arte, using info sheets & wall displays.

2. 10 mins to create a poster on the subject

3. 10 mins to prepare a presentation to be given using drama skills

4. 20 mins Creative presentation.

5. 10 mins to demonstrate your understanding to the class as a list drawn up of descriptions for CDA.

                                               

Some of you used audacity (audio recording) explaining “What is Commedia Dell Arte” at beginning of lesson and again at end of lesson.

Do you notice a difference in the understanding after compared to the beginning?

Working learning levels for the introduction to Comedia Dell Arte.

Level 3c;            Work well in a group and be able to explain what Commedia Dell Arte is.

Level 3b;            Identify key factors within Commedia dell arte.

Level 3a;            Enhance the learning journey of yourself and others through your presentation.

Extension/level 4c;         

                            Present your ideas and findings in as creative a way as possible.

Creating food stuffs in clay.

L10

WALT;              How to create food shapes in 3D.

WILF;                All of you will be able to manipulate the clay.

                                  Most of you will demonstrate a reality in the work.

                                  Some of you will be able to work quickly by working as a team..

Using various methods (demonstrated last lesson) like  a clay gun with filters to make spaghetti for example you were to design your own food shapes in 3D

Food types made included spaghetti / chips/ burgers/ mushrooms/sausages/pasta/pizza.

Clay food will be fired in the kiln for next week.

Safety,       remember!

All moisture to be ejected from the clay when in the kiln otherwise there is a risk of explosion.

Art; Working in clay

Lesson 9

An introduction to working with clay, theme;   Fantastic Food .

WALT                      How to create a 3D surface

WILF                       All of you can work rolling the clay.           

                                  Most of you will also understand how to shap the clay.            

                                  Some of you will do this but remember your listening skills.            

You were shown how to use different tools and different methods to create different types of foods

You were shown how to make each individual food types with the tools required.

You were told that you could make any food type you wanted and shown how to make spaghetti/cheese/bacon etc by flattening the clay and drawing the food stuff on it.


This would take up at least 3 lessons.




Making the plate.

Making the food stuff.

Painting the clay


You were also told about the firing process and how important it is to remove all air from inside the clay before it goes in the kiln.


Firstly you had to make the plate on which the food would sit.


Here are the images of your efforts.

Art Lesson 7 Continued Mood boards

This lesson continued with your mood board BUT this time you had to take out a small section and enlarge.

Here are images to remind you of this lesson.

ART Lesson 4

This was to make accurate observations, keeping with the fantastic food theme.

Here we are interested in food wrappers.

The objective for the lesson were provided by;

WALT                        How to record my observations accurately

WILF                          Quality of drawing.

                                          1 All of you obtained a food wrapper and could make a drawing.

                                          2 Most of you produced an accurate drawing.

                                          3 Some of you produced an accurate drawing and noticed the
                                             differences in tone, texture and colour and remembered how to mark
                                             make.

Even though you had already produced accurate drawings this lesson helped you improve your
drawing skills.            

By the end of the lesson you had revisited pencil line drawing and mark making with objects that had 

organic forms.

This work would help you go on to create mood boards with the theme of organic food stuffs.

Theory.

Light and form create different shapes.

Lettering motifs appear abstract.

Abstract drawing is;

Theoretical rather than concrete or physical, denoting  an idea, quality, or state.

For your understanding and continuing your learning journey you investigated abstract art that does not attempt to represent external, recognisable reality.

Recap.

You sat and observed the food wrapper you were to draw.

Drawing crushed tin cans and crumpled up crisp packets. 

Looking for light, form & shade which create shape.


As usual at the end you had to showcase your work and relate to each other , with reasons based on theory, which piece you thought managed to fulfil the lessons objective.

How do you think you did?