Drama 

Year 2 and 3 students continued their investigation and exploration of the steps towards creating a narrative film. Students built upon the excellent work that they had achieved in previous weeks including improvising a character, deciding upon their attributes, abilities, and personalities, and creating a full, detailed character profile. Within small groups, students then decided upon a setting and how their characters could possibly know each other therefore defining their relationship to one another. 

From here, most of the ingredients of a story are in place. We then organised their fantastic work into the popular story structure of ‘Beginning/Middle/End’. This is a structure that students have used in previous years in their creative writing lessons. We spoke about how in the beginning section, we are introduced to the characters in the opening setting. As we cross over into the middle section, the characters are presented with a problem or challenge that they then spend the bulk of their story trying different ways to solve that problem. The end section shows the character finding a solution and how the character may have grown somehow in the process.

Students were also tasked with improvising the things that characters may say to each other along the way within each of these sections, as scripts are predominantly made up of character dialogue. This will lead into the coming lessons where students will dress up in costume and film themselves on their iPads before finally learning how to edit the footage on iMovie in the final weeks of term.