Unit 9
Unit 9- Developing performance and production skills To start the process of creating a Christmas play, we needed to start thinking of some ideas. To do this, we separated into four groups and started jotting down some ideas on some A3 paper. We had to consider what the main objective of the play should be. Should the ending be happy or sad? What style of production should we do? I suggested to my group that we should perhaps perform a pantomime style performance. My reasoning was that, typically, pantomimes are commonly related to Christmas and that would also determine our ending (happy) and would overall be enjoyable to perform. Collectively, the group agreed that this was a good idea and so we continued with our ideas with this in mind. As a group, we questioned how many 'main characters' there should. When writing a plot, you need to have a coherent number of central characters otherwise, if there are too many, the audience can lose focus easily. To figure this out, we h...
