Into the Woods - Ofsted Lesson 1

Today we created super-objectives for our characters. A super-objective is like an aim our characters have throughout the whole narrative. For example, Cinderella's Prince's long term goal is to 'get the girl'. As the narrator, my super-objective I think is to 'be heard'.

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We then were grouped together and were given a sheet of paper, in which we had to draw a mind-map of a certain character from 'Into the Woods'. The mind-map had to show all the links this character had to other characters and events throughout the story. My group had to present 'The baker', which has many connections to do with most scenes. Afterwards, we created a short reenactment of the whole story line from our specific character's perspective. This was every scene/event that character was in. Because of all the different characters 'The baker' is in scenes with, it meant we had to be a series of the roles when changing scenes. This included myself being 'The Witch', 'Jack' and my original role the 'Narrator'. I enjoyed being other characters as I had to change my body language, and voice. We also used physical theatre such as becoming trees (to represent outdoors in the woods) especially when waiting or switching event.