Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Snip-snapping the story
At this juncture, we had really gotten to know the students. We learnt about their capabilities and we thought of ways on how they could positively contribute to the end production of the sessions, which would be a play to call their own. Also at this time, we finalised the groupings so that the students could work within the groups and stories that they were assigned too.
Shadman and Huan’s group first took to understanding the fundamental aspects of stories, such as plot, character, setting, etc. After taking not of the aspects, the students took full control of what the play turned out to be. The first aspect that the students looked at was setting. The students changed the setting from a classic home to a school, which they felt that they were more relatable to. In the original story, Arthur and his friend, Buster ruined his Arthur's mom's computer. Arthur lied to his mom about that but later on, he admitted it. In the altered version, the students made it an art competition which "Andrew" and "Nurul" took part in. Lack of ideas, they coincidentally copied the same artwork from the Internet and submitted it. That created a lot of troubles later on as they figured out the coincidence. Changing story was fun as all the students contributed to or at least gave an attempt to participate in the process. It was wonderful that the students created their own story. They changed the settings, characters and events of the new stories or by themselves. I and Shadman were astonished and we were very glad of their activeness throughout the sessions. We only helped them made some of the events more logical. However, the students still kept their story in touch with the moral of the original story.
Naowed and Anh’s group, however, continued by first understanding the story better. They then went in an order whereby they changed minor details first and then moved on to more complicated details. They evolved their story into “Arthur’s Halloween”, inspired by their groups love for Harry Potter. As the group slowly changed their story, the students themselves were able to pick out who would be better for which role and through this, they themselves directed their own play.
Shadman and Huan’s group first took to understanding the fundamental aspects of stories, such as plot, character, setting, etc. After taking not of the aspects, the students took full control of what the play turned out to be. The first aspect that the students looked at was setting. The students changed the setting from a classic home to a school, which they felt that they were more relatable to. In the original story, Arthur and his friend, Buster ruined his Arthur's mom's computer. Arthur lied to his mom about that but later on, he admitted it. In the altered version, the students made it an art competition which "Andrew" and "Nurul" took part in. Lack of ideas, they coincidentally copied the same artwork from the Internet and submitted it. That created a lot of troubles later on as they figured out the coincidence. Changing story was fun as all the students contributed to or at least gave an attempt to participate in the process. It was wonderful that the students created their own story. They changed the settings, characters and events of the new stories or by themselves. I and Shadman were astonished and we were very glad of their activeness throughout the sessions. We only helped them made some of the events more logical. However, the students still kept their story in touch with the moral of the original story.
Naowed and Anh’s group, however, continued by first understanding the story better. They then went in an order whereby they changed minor details first and then moved on to more complicated details. They evolved their story into “Arthur’s Halloween”, inspired by their groups love for Harry Potter. As the group slowly changed their story, the students themselves were able to pick out who would be better for which role and through this, they themselves directed their own play.
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