FW:

My job role for the production part of the dance show was -set design-. I worked with Aimee thompson and victoria Harman
our jobs where to create a set for the show, decorate the hall and the stage filled with things we had created and made ourselves
We created a painted mad hatter, a painted Alice in wonderland, series of playing cards and a giant mushroom along with other little
bits and pieces that we had created. We had to make sure everything that we wanted and had planned to do was ready for the
dance show and ready to put up a few days before. Our job went well as we got everything done that we had originally planned to do.
GabriellaThorpe

I was in group 'Marketing and advertising' our job was to promote the show. Our first job role was too design and make the posters to put up around school, after we did the posters we then designed the tickets, we spent a few lessons on these getting them right and making sure they have the correct times and dates, we then printed them out on to card and cut them out one by one as a group. Our last task was designing the programmes for the show for people to buy if they wanted, in these we included all the dances and everyone's names who were taking part in the dance show. The programmes took a while to do and we got them done literally at the last minute but everything was done and organised on time.

By Lucia

Dance

Blog Evaluation

My job role in the organising of the dance show was in the marketing team. This meant I had to help advertise the dance show and design and make all the poster, tickets, programmes etc. There were five people in our group, me, Shaunie, Katie, Lucia and Nicola.

Our first job as a group was to design the audition posters. This was done by me and Nicola, but the others put in some ideas. After that me and Nicola went and put them up around the whole school, in the bulletin and on the TV screens. This was completed very quickly which meant the students had plenty of time to see them and choreograph a dance piece.

Next we had to make the dance show posters. Shaunie, Katie and Lucia designed 4 different ones and showed them to the class to see if they all agreed. Then me and Nicola had to put up all the new dance show posters around school, taking down the audition posters as we did so. Unfortunately we realised a mistake on the posters so they had to change it and reprint them all again. Me and Nicola had to run around school taking down the wrong ones and replacing them with the correct ones, luckily this didn't take too long and no one really noticed.

Finally, we had to design the tickets and programmes for the show. Lucia, Katie and Shaunie designed the tickets and sent them to me and Nicola to go to Tim and get them printed onto small pieces of card and then photocopied. While we did this, they designed the programme and found out everyone's names who were taking part in the show so they could be put on it. This was a hard, complicated job so we made a few mistakes, but managed to solve them in the end.



Shannon Rhodes

I was in the costume group and my role was to sort out the costumes for our year and help plan them to go with our theme.

First of all I got many ideas of costumes for each of our dances and we discussed with the rest of the dancers whether or not they agreed with them. People complained at many costumes so we just made them simpler such as plain tops, hoodies and leggings. We then went into the drama studio to see what costumes we had and see if we could match them to what we had planned, some of the costumes had to be changed as there were better things which we already had and could have used which would have been more effective. Once again we talked through it with the class and most people agreed.

We then had to go count each of the costumes to make sure there were enough for everyone but we assumed some people would have certain things which they didn't. We made a list of which costumes we as the school would provide and which they had to provide so then they knew what they needed. we also tested the cotumes to make sure they looked affective. I colour coded and made sure it went with the right bit of the theme.

We then had to check everyone sizes and made sure they could have costumes that would fit them, also with that I did everyone costume bags and sorted all the costumes out which everyone would need. In the meetings I had made sure everyone could provide the things that they needed and with them meetings we knew to drop the idea of army boots for Rhythm nation because not everyone had them.

Then on the actual night of the dance show I made sure that everyone was getting changed into the right costume and also after the show we then noticed we should have told everyone to cut and slice their clothes for I was here at home because there was a huge mess.

If I had the chance to do it again I would take chance to make sure everyone is happy with everything and that everything in the costume department is sorted out a long time before the show instead of a couple of days before. I should of started sorting before to give more time for other things to be dealt with.



By Kirsty Moore.

Blog Summary

My role in the dance show was in the technical team.
Firstly in our group we had to write a letter to Tim asking him whether he would be available to do that sound and lighting for the dance show, once he had replied and we knew he could do it. We could then start to plan the lighting and sound for all the dance we had. We had to look at each dance and decide what type of lighting we wanted as we wanted it to create mood or atmosphere.We then made a list of all the dances in running order. After we did this we handed it over to Tim so he could use it on the night of the show.

charlie vickers

The Last post was from Emma Harrison.

Blog Summary.

My job role throughout the dance show was in the finance team with two other people, I feel as though we worked really well as a team as we was able to organise everything with co-ordination.

With the time our group was given we were able to organise ticket prices and our total income of the Dance show. We had meetings with other areas of the dance show to discuss financial issues such as the price of the skirts that the costume area was ordering for one of the sets of chorography. There wasn't a great amount of money spent on the Dance show as many of the costumes was provided or was planned to bring from home. Also the set design was free of charge from Baintons so there was no need to discuss money for that. We organised a year 7 disco but unfortunately there was no tickets sold so we had to cancel the event. We also had a student night on the Wednesday where the tickets were sold as £1.50 to attract more people to attend.

Also during our organisation time we had a meeting with Mr.williman to discuss some possible fundraising ideas for example; cake selling, teacher bunny hop and the Disco. This went real well as we got confirmation to go ahead. Also we had a meeting with Mr.Wardman to get him to ring up Baintons and ask about set, once we got baintons making our set we left it to the set design to arrange where everything was going.

On the blog I made multiple conversations asking other people to do things to help us out. For example I wrote on it asking Beth vowels from the secretary group to write a letter to Mr.Williman to have a confirmation about the Disco and I also wrote on it telling Vicky and Emma Rignall that the video clips was appropriate to the scheduling of the Dances. Then I wrote on it to let everybody know the Year 7 disco was cancelled due to no tickets being sold.

Thank you to everybody in the Dance show teams we had a brilliant outcome and we all was involved. Thank you Miss Hardy and Mrs.Grantham to making this show happen J

Blog Summary

My job role was technical team, we had to do the lighting and seating. I mainly worked on the seating arrangement with Charlie Vickers. We had team meetings so everyone got to decide out of three ideas. We had to work with the set design in order to plan the layout and set of the hall where the dance show was performed. I missed a lot of lessons closer to the dance show so i couldn't help Rebecca and Kirstie with the lighting.

Kelly Porter

Blog Summary

My role in the dance show was in the technical team...
Firstly we had to write a letter to Tim asking him whether he would be available to do that sound and lighting for the show, once he had replied and we knew he could do it. We could then start to plan the lighting and sound. We had to look at each dance and decide what type of lighting we wanted to create a certain type of atmosphere and mood. It all depended on the style of dance too. We then made a list of all the dances in running order and annotated each dance with what type of lighting we wanted. After we did this we handed it over to Tim so he could use it on the show.

Becca Theobald

Blog Summary

My role in the dance show was in the technical team...
Firstly we had to write a letter to Tim asking him whether he would be available to do that sound and lighting for the show, once he had replied and we knew he could do it. We could then start to plan the lighting and sound. We had to look at each dance and decide what type of lighting we wanted to create a certain type of atmosphere and mood. It all depended on the style of dance too. We then made a list of all the dances in running order and annotated each dance with what type of lighting we wanted. After we did this we handed it over to Tim so he could use it on the show.

Becca Theobald

My job role for the dance show was costume. Firstly, we had a meeting to draft down how many dances we had and what types of costumes we would want to create for these dances, whilst doing this we sketched some rough ideas to see what they looked like. In this lesson we also jotted down how many people there were in our class and of boys and girls.

The next meeting we had we decided to go to the drama studio and search through the costumes that we already had. By doing this we could see if we had enough of one costume for the number of people in our class for one dance. We also picked out costumes we liked and think would fit with our theme of 'Alice in Wonderland' to give us ideas on what to do for some of the dances.

After doing this we wrote our ideas on the blog to see what peoples responses were, following peoples suggestions we then headed back to the drama studio and collected costumes that we had enough of and put them to a side. The time near the show we spent organising the costumes into bags for everyone in our class and then put names on them so everyone had their own individual bag.

Sophie Peyman

Blog Summary.

My job role throughout the organising of the show was the finance team. There was three of us in this group and we worked well together. We communicated and listened to what we all had to say and got on with things as a group without many problems.

Within this time we were given the tasks of fundraising, ticket prices and budgets for other groups. Each group didn't really need a high budget. This was because the set from baintons was free of charge and most costumes were either already in school or for each student to buy themselves. This also meant that there wasn't much fundraising needed. We organised a year 7 and 8 disco that was 5 days before the show but it was later cancelled due to no one been aware of it and low ticket sales. The ticket prices were set at £2.50 and a price of £1.50 for students on the Wednesday night to attract more pupils.

During this time we also carried two extra tasks. The first was arranging a meeting with our head teacher, Mr Williman. This was to discuss our different fundraising ideas and get him to confirm that we can go ahead with them. This was needed because some of our ideas included the teachers, such as the teacher gunging so we would need to make sure this was acceptable. The second task we carried out was the baintons idea. Our finance group organised with Mr Wardman to get baintons to do our set for us. Once it was organised, we left it to the set design group.

I think my group also contributed well during the team meetings and did well letting the rest of the class know what we'd been doing in our group and what we had achieved. We also discussed money with the costume team and made sure they had realistic aims and also to know how much more money we would have to raise.

I think each group did well during this time and help to make our show a success. All ideas were creative and helped us make our show unique.



Jodie Uscroft.

my job role was costume and I did this job with Emma Rignall, Sophie Peyman and Kirsty Moore. Our job was to design all the costumes of the dance show and make sure that they were appropriate for the dance style performed. Another one of our jobs were to take everyone's measurements and sizes so all the costumes we designed and bought would fit everyone perfectly. This was all done at the start of January so we had time to design costumes, get everyone's measurements and so if we ordered anything it would be here on time for the dance show

ryan spooner

Blog Summary.

Our group was made up of five people, we were the marketing team. We were in charge of making and putting up posters and advertising the show around school. We all had different jobs for example I was in charge of making the dance audition posters and putting them up around school. Shaunie, Katie and Lucia made the show posters and me and Shannon put them up around school, we then and to make tickets and we sold the throughout form time, break and lunch.



Overall I think we did well as a group to produce such a large scale show and keep things organised, I enjoyed it very much over the two years and I am glad to have met some nice people.

-Nicola Kay.

During the production of the dance show I had the job role of secretary and I worked with Beth Carter and Bethanie Vowles.

My first job as secretary was to write a letter to Mr Williman for conformation of the show and to confirm the dates.
Then I spoke to different groups and asked if they needed any letters sending out.
I went with jodie, emma and dannii to speak to Mr William about fundraising so I could take notes and update everyone with what's happening.
I helped out marketing in my spare time with tickets also I helped Vicky and Jodie paint the set.
I updated the blog with the information from the confirmation letter I recieved from Mr William.
I put the suggestion of making a student night to attract more people on the Wednesday on the blog.
Me, Beth and Bethanie took it in turns to put the minutes on the blog to remind everyone and let Miss Hardy know the decisions we have made.
I also suggested to do a contempary piece to Beyonce- I was here.


Overall I think we did well to keep our group organised and reached our job roles to it full patential. I have enjoyed the past 2 years meeting and working with lots of different people.

Maisie Hollingsworth

During the production process I was part of the sectary group, I wrote a letter to the caretaker to let him know about the information about the dance show, the dates, the amount of people were expecting, how long where thinking it will last. I also wrote minutes on numerous occasions this is where I wrote on a piece of paper everything that was discussed during our meetings and the people that was there and the people that were absent on that day. Then I posted it on the blog so everybody could see what was discussed or if anything they needed to bring to school e.g. clothes. We also put plenty our suggestions during the meetings like our ideas on the clothes or our idea of the settings.

Bethany carter.

Blog Summary

As part of the Set Design team we had a lot to do and organise:

· First we made a sketch of what our initial plan for the stage was, with the plan done we knew what we needed to organise.

· Then we had a chat with the finance team and they told us Baintons would make our set for free.

· We went to Mr Wardman who has a contact at Baintons and he set up the meeting for us.

· Then me and Aimee went to Baintons and asked them to make us 4 playing cards and 1 mushroom.

· We then started painting the Alice onto a big piece of paper and then we started to paint the Mad Hatter.

· Once the mushrooms and playing cards had arrived we stayed back after school and at dinner times to paint them.

· The day before the show we put the paintings, playing cards and mushroom onto the stage and organised them so they were safe and looked good.



Overall I think that the set design group have done a lot towards the dance show. We communicated with the right groups (e.g. Lighting, costume and finance) and we made sure everything was done. We have been the first group in years to have a proper set, this was important to the group as a whole as we wanted to stand out.




Victoria Harman

My first job in the finance team was to brainstorm fundraising ideas. We came up with bun sales,gunging teachers and a year 7 disco. Our team had to organize a meeting with Mr Williman to dicuss fundraising ideas and he gave us his full support with whatever ideas we wanted to do.
I helped to print out tickets and posters and to put them up around school for the year 7 disco unfortunately it did not go ahead.

Danni

Our group was made up of 5 people and our job role was marketing this meant that we were in charge of making the posters, programmes and tickets and making people aware of the dance show.

Our first job as a group was making the posters for the auditions and the dance show. This was done by me, Lucia and Shaunie it went very well as we didn't have any problems and we were able to get on with the job and get it finished quickly. Once we had finished and printed the poster Nicola and Shannon went and put the posters up around school and put on in the school bulletin.

Me, Lucia and shaunie then designed the ticket however we did have some problems because our first design was too big and we could not re-size them so we had to change the whole design of the tickets, however our second time of designing the tickets was more successful and this was the design that we went with. Once we printed the tickets me, Lucia, Shaunie and maisie cut out all of the tickets, this job was done quickly and we got them all cut in one hour.

Our next job was making the programmes this was done by me, Lucia and Shaunie this was a difficult task as we started the design of our programmes on the wrong programme on the computer, so we had to re-do the whole programme. However this job did take us a long time as we had to get everyone's name that took part in the dance show and this took us a long time to do as we kept making spelling mistakes so we had to re-do the programmes a lot. But after we had solved these problems we were able to get the programmes printed and folded very quickly.



Katie McLaughlin

My first suggestion to the production of the dance show was the idea of the red and white costumes for superbass, I thought this would be good idea because it symbolises the final battle in Alice wonderland and this was then used in the show.

My first job as a secretary I wrote a letter to Mrs Grantham asking permission for the show and clarifying the dates so that all the other groups could start on their jobs. After this I wrote my first letter to Mr Williman for the group doing fundraising because they wanted permission for fundraising events and I let the dance group know about this over the blog so they was able to make plans. They then asked me to write another letter to him to see if we could have a Year 7 and 8 disco to raise money for the show, I did this and he replied saying that we could go ahead with this. I let the fundraising group know so that they could then go ahead with their ideas.

During form time and out of school I helped to sell the dance show tickets with Sophie Peyman and we handed in all the money we made to either Miss Hardy or Mrs Grantham.

Also I volunteered to help Miss Hardy by re-typing the running order and whether the dancers started on or off the stage on the laptops and I emailed it back so that she was then able to print it off as many times as it was needed.

After the dance shows was over me and Emma Rignall collected the costume rack with the costumes on and brought it back up to the drama studio so we could then sort the costumes out so that they was all hung on hangers not creased.



Bethanie Vowles

Firstly tech team had to ask finance to write a letter to tim asking him if he was able to do the lighting and sound on both nights of the dance show. Then we thought about all the dances and thought of what lighting would work well with the dance, depending on what style of dance it was. Next, we went through the running order and wrote down all the dances and sorted out the lighting, smoke etc. We then handed our list in to Miss Hardy.
Kirstie Harness.

Firstly for the dance show, Costume had a meeting into what we thought everyone should wear for the seperate dances, we also sketched some ideas out and showed them back to everyone to see what they thought when they told us their ideas for the costumes, we then just made the changes and went to see what exsisting costumes we had in the drama studio.
We then wrote our ideas on the blog to make sure that everyone was happy with what we had suggested and then if they werent they could reply to us on the blog, we then went back to the drama studio and counted all of the costumes we wanted to use to make sure we had enough for every performer. Towards the end of the run up towards the show we put all the costumes in bags and named them:)
Emma Rignall x

24/4/2012- we have finaly printed and folded the programmes, we had loads of problems as our first attempt of making them went wrong because the informantion we needed to put on wouldn't fit on the page. we then had to re-do the content of the programme about 5 times because we had alot of spelling mistakes.

Katie McLaughlin

18/4/2012- we have printed and cut the tickets, we had to change the deisgn as the first design wouldn't fit the size of the ticket that we wanted. we have made two types of tickets- one for wednesday which we are selling at £1:50 for students and £2:50 for everyone else, And a different design for thursday which the tickets will be sold at £2:50 for everyone.

Katie McLaughlin.

2/4/2012 -We have finished the posters, we made 4 posters with different pictures on them but the same writing.


Katie McLaughlin

Thank you to Miss Grantham and Miss Hardy for helping produce the dance show, it was really good :) x

Becca Theobald

I forgot to mention before the year 7 disco i printed out posters and put them in the notice boards around school i also spoke to Tim about advertising it on the screens and gave the tickets to the front office.

Danni

Well done everyone, i thought the show went really well! i would like to say thankyou to miss hardy and miss grantham for making this possible! also well done to everyone who won a award!

Danni

 I think the dance show went really well, and i thoroughly enjoyed doing it, i would like to say thankyou to miss hardy and miss grantham for all the hard work they put in:)

Emma Rignallx

The show went really well, well done to everyone. We managed to finish the set in time which was a relief. Really enjoyed organising the show and performing in it.

Victoria Harman

I would like to say well done to everyone for there efforts last wednesday and thursday who took part in the dance show. We would also like to apoliges to mrs grantham for the mess in the changing rooms, And thankyou to mrs grantham and miss hardy for there help they have given us in the past 2 years. I really enjoyed putting the dance show together and im really looking forward to watching the dance show.

bethany x

FW:

I think everyone did really well on the shows last week. Well done everyone! :) I'd like to say sorry to Mrs Grantham about the changing rooms. We should have all been more responsible for our own things. I really enjoyed putting the show together and loved the two nights performing. Well done to the award winners too they were all definitely deserving!

Jodie x

I think everyone did really well on the shows last week. Well done everyone! :) I'd like to say sorry to Mrs Grantham about the changing rooms. We should have all been more responsible for our own things. I really enjoyed putting the show together and loved the two nights performing. Well done to the award winners too they were all definitely deserving!

On friday, the day after the dance show, me and Emma Rignall brought all the costumes on the rack from behind the stage back to the drama studio. Once they was back me Emma Harrison and Danni Hoe sorted all the costumes out in the bags so that they didnt get creased and was hung on hangers.

Bethanie Vowles

On friday, the day after the dance show, me and Emma Rignall brought all the costumes on the rack from behind the stage back to the drama studio. Once they was back me Emma Harrison and Danni Hoe sorted all the costumes out in the bags so that they didnt get creased and was hung on hangers.

Bethanie Vowles

I think the turn out was really good both nights and also the way we had lots out of other years in our dance show obviously brought more people in.
Also me and shannon went round forms most mornings aswell and beth and everyone and i think having our own blocks to do was a good idea for if one of children said we'll give you it tomorrow then you'll know to deffinatly go in that form because they'll have the money! We had a costume dilemma but sorted it out which helped alot and everyone helped tieing each other bows for 'i was here' and we had alot of the girls practicing back stage which showed how much they all tried to make the dance show successful.
 
Kirsty Moore
 

The shows seemed to go really fast... once you'd come off for one dance you was on for another straight away :)
Also everyone did so well and all should be proud of themselves! Everyone was organised and helped each other along the way.
The end of Rhythm nation i think came a shock to the audience, i think thats why we got the responces we did.
Kirsty Moore

Also i think this would be a good opportunity to apologise to Mrs G!
First night i stayed after with miss hardy and mrs G to tidy up, it was all from the people who had cut the tops and leggings whilst in the changing room. There was black pieces of material everywhere!
Maybe next year (if they have a dance show) it would be a good idea to tell them to sort out there costumes at home like if they had to cut holes and things.
also instead of rushing off everyone should check they've collected everything of there's.
We also had people losing there clothes like shorts, ect. maybe maybe it would have been good to have someone in the room to watch people nd make sure thingsdont go missing?
 
Kirsty moore

The shows seemed to go really fast... once you'd come off for one dance you was on for another straight away :)
Also everyone did so well and all should be proud of themselves! Everyone was organised and helped each other along the way.
The end of Rhythm nation i think came a shock to the audience, i think thats why we got the responces we did.

I've been talking to a few people who came to see the show and they was confused at the way there was video clips, they didnt see how they went with the dances.
when you try and explain they still dont get it and think it was pointless... did it only make sense to us?
i also think we should have practiced in our costumes for the practice. As in full costume so we knew if we had everything and things worked the way we wanted it. Because even though we practiced in them everytime we did practice and even on the shows i still managed to stand on my skirt at the same part.
 
Kirsty moore

well done everyone the show went so well cant belive its all over

charlie

cant believe the dance shows are over because weve all done so much work and they both turned out amazing! i loved dancing with all you girls and ryan and charlie and im sure none of us will forget it because weve had such a good 2 years! plus weve raised so much money, well done everyone!

Bethanie x

Tonight is the show, and prior to that I designed an dance audition poster for our dance show. Me and Shannon then put them up around school so that people were aware of our auditions and when to come. Now that this has been done we have many different year groups performing dances in out show. We then had to make the show posters which were done by Shaunie, Katie and Lucia. Me and Shannon put them up around school and took the audition posters down. Along with the posters made the tickets were done as well, we are still currently selling them. Good luck everyone! - Nicola Kay

 Just to let you all know Miss Hardy is staying at school before both nights of the dance show so we can start turning up from 5:30 so that we can all get ready

 

Bethanie Vowles

I think we do need to sort army pants on wednesday in lesson.

Also, me vicky and beth stayed behind tonight to paint the playing cards and they are nearly done.

Jodie x

I think we do need to sort army pants on wednesday in lesson.

Also, me vicky and beth stayed behind tonight to paint the playing cards and they are nearly done.

Jodie x

Beth Vowles i have not tried any army pants on, so i shall do that:)

Emma Rignallx

Only a few people have tried the army pants on so to help the costume people please can you try some on, or give your size so they go in the correct bags

Bethanie Vowles

People have started to bring their costumes into the drama studio, Laura Derbyshire has took some of the army pants but we hope to have all of them back by Wednesday:)

Emma Rignallx

Everyone should now have their hot pants (both black and white ones) thankyou to jodie for getting them over the weekend! Everyone just needs to bring their own costumes in from home and then we'll be sorted. The army pants are being collected and shall be put in the correct bags for the show on wednesday night!

 

Sophie

Last lesson i took the old running order and rewrote it on the computer saying whether dances started and finished on/off the stage and emailed it to miss Hardy

Bethanie Vowles

i've bought the hotpants for everyone who needed them. if you didnt pay please could you just bring £1.50 for me tomorrow, or £3.00 if you asked for a black and a white pair :)

Jodie x

Me, Sophie, Ryan and Kirsty put all the costumes in their correct bags with the names of everyone on today:) we just need to get the costumes that your all bringing on Monday and then were sorted:)

Emma Rignall:)

we have made the posters for the dance show, including the theme and all the information needed, they also include relevent pictures which will draw peoples attention. we have put them up everywhere around school.

Shannon Rhodes.

me, becca and emma rignall sold 4 tickets this morning, but most people said that they are going to pay on the door:)

kirstie and becca:)x

Me and Beth have emailed the front office and Tim to get a dance show message in the bulletin. It tells you what time to be there on the show night, the alice in wonderland theme and the price of the tickets.

Jodie

i think the video clips Vicky harman and Emma rignall selected fits well with the scheduling of the dances and will make a impact towards the audience and the dance show.
Emma Harrison.

On the 22nd March 2012 Mr Williman sent us a letter of confirmation for permission to hold the dance show. He was happy to grant the request and wished us the very best with our BTEC course and the show.


Maisie Hollingsworth

Me and Emma Rignall chose the video clips. Chose the clips from through out the film so they explained the film.


Victoria Harman

Me, Kirstie and Charlie have finished the jobs we had to do, so if anybody wants any help with theirs, then just say :)

Becca Theobald

i have started to sell tickets in and out of school, its took alot of asking asking around and persuading people but slowly more and more people are buying them. This is positive because we know we'll have a guarunteed audience aswel as people buying them on the door
Bethanie Vowles

The year 7 disco organised for friday 20th April has been cancelled as because nobody managed to produce and sell tickets. This is a dissapointment because it could of been a good fundraising idea and could of raised alot of money to put towards the Dance show. It took alot of time and discussion to plan but was not sucessful in happening.

Emma Harrison.

Me, Kirstie and Charlie have finished the jobs we had to do, so if anybody wants any help with theirs, then just say :)

Becca Theobald

All the lighting is sorted so were ready for the dance show:)and tim knows what to do now:)were also having smoke!:Dits all coming together:)

kirstie:)

We have started painting the Alice painting.

Thanks alot,

Victoria Harman

Mushrooms and playing cards have arrived from Baintons. Asked them to make them because we knew they could build them properly at the scale we wanted. Started painting them.


Victoria Harman

I have emailed Miss Hardy the list of lighting we want for each dance:)

Becca Theobald.

Becca! ?

I agree with Jodie A lot needs to be sorted before next week, we should work together on the running order and check we have all the right video clips sorted.

Bethany.

i think once we're back at school we need to have a long meeting to sort things such as the running order and make sure everyone knows exactly what clothes to buy so that we all look the same. i think we also need to get a lot of people selling tickets to get as many sold as possible.

Jodie :)

I think the student night is a really good idea, so we can encourage people to come both nights, also the year 7 disco posters are all up and tickets printed and given to the front office.

Danni

everyone should have a copy of the costume list.. We decided that you don't have to wear the red and white gene pants if you don't want to for superbass, aslong as you wear either the red or white clothing. All the items you need to bring yourself are straight forward. The 'Do it like a dude' dance says hoodie and hot pants but if you would feel more comfortable wearing joggers instead that's not a problem! For soulmate there will be gold ribbon around the waist to break up the white, like on 'i was here' with the black and red.
Sophy

i think the student discount night is a good idea and to thank baintons for helping with our set i think we should give them £1.50 tickets aswel.
Bethanie

The mad hatter painting is nearly finished.

Victoria Harman

Spoke to Baintons collage about making a 2 metre mushroom for the set and 4, 4 foot playing cards. Have to wait till the end of this month for them to arrive and then paint them.

Victoria Harman

We've decided to do a student night on the Wednesday which means the ticket price will go down from £2.50 to £1.50. Hopefully this will attract more people to come on the Wednesday.


Maisie Hollingsworth

Me and Kirstie have got a list of the all the different lighting that we can use and we spoke to tim and he is able to do the lighting and the sound on both the nights!

Becca and Kirstie:)x

Minutes
Friday 3rd February
Everyone was present except Kelly Porter and Rebecca Theobald
We decided that Emma Rignall and Vicky Harman would help picking clips.
Ryan made the decision to stay behind on Monday and sort out the costumes.
Jodie got the meeting with Mr Williman to discuss fundraising.

Maisie Hollingsworth, Bethany Carter and Bethanie Vowles

I have wrote the email to Mr Williman about the year 7 and 8 disco on the 20th April and i am just waiting for a reply to confirm it

Bethanie Vowles

Minutes
Everyone was present to the meeting except Kelly Porter.
Marketing were printing out the tickets and posters.
Costume were trying to get funding for the outfits.
Set design were finishing off the mad hatter painting.
Finance figured out what fundraising they were doing.
Beth Vowles suggested a teachers dance?



Maisie Hollingsworth, Bethany Carter and Bethanie Vowles

In theory lessons, me and becca theobald, decided that we want calm, soft lighting on most contempory songs, and jazzy, fast lighting on most upbeat songs:)does anybody disagree, or have any specific lighting that they would like to be on any particular songs?:)

kirstie and becca:)x

Can Bethanie Vowles please write up an e-mail to Mr.Williman to inform him that we have set the date for Friday the 20th of April for the year 7&8 disco.
Thankyou.
Emma Harrison.

We have got permission for Mr Williman to do the year 7/8 disco, just need to decide the date.
Danni

Mr Williman has agreed to letting us do the year 7 and 8 disco so if anyone wants to come and help with the tuck shop etc on the night please let me, danni or emma know.

Jodie

We are doing a cake sale at the year 8 parents evening on thursday night to go towards the dance show. This should hopefully raise nearly a £100 to put towards costume and set.

Danni

I think to make our dance show unique, volunteered teachers should put a dance together and participate in our show. No other year has done this before and it could make ours memorable.
Also in the last theory lesson a letter needed to be wrote to Mr Williman to ask permission for fundraising activities so i did that and took it to him. He will hopefully reply soon.

Bethanie

i have wrote the letter for mrs grantham about confirming the dates for our dance show, once i have the final dates i can send the letter to her to confirm it.
Bethanie

I agree with shaunie and bethanies ideas, i think it would be good when the audience first walk in to be able to get the feel of the performance with pictures from the fim and bits of set like mushrooms and trees dotted around the front of school and the hall. I also think the battle dance in red and white would an effective way to end the show
Danni

Structuring ideas

Hi Year 11,
as the theme is now decided and we know some of the dance pieces involved - perhaps you could start with a basic structure and say which section each dance represents.
Then we will have an idea of which sections still need a piece creating for.
As well as your Y11 dances - Y13 have 3 pieces, Year 2 will have 2 pieces and Y10 a possible 2 or 3 pieces.
Lots of hard work ahead - good luck
Mrs G

My idea was that we could start some dances from the seats in the audience, so the audience doesn't get bored of just seeing us on the stage.

Katie.

An idea would be to do Avril Lavigne - Underground at the beginning when Alice is falling down the hole.
And then a set idea would be to have big wooden playing cards at either side of the hall and stage.

Vicky Harman

One of my ideas was to do a contemporary dance to the song beyonce- I was here because in the song she talks about how she was here on earth which relates to when Alice is been accused of been the fake Alice.

Maisie

One of my ideas was to do a contemporary dance to the song beyonce- I was here because in the song she talks about how she was here on earth which relates to when Alice is been accused of been the fake Alice.

Year 11,

You have started off with some creative ideas revolving around set, costume and staging which hopefully your design and technical team will take on board when planning the show.

I particularly liked the idea of writing the drama transitions to piece together the variety show.

Does anyone have any ideas for choreography? Any routines you have linked with the Alice in Wonderland theme?

Let me know,
Miss Hardy

I agree with jodies ideas. My idea is that super bass could represent the battle between the queens, and one side should be red and the other should be white to show the queens armies. People should act out lines to show where we are in the story.

Beth Carter

i agree with all the ideas. i also think we could maybe use projections of alice during different points of the dance show so that the audience keep up with the theme and it makes more sense. i think we should also advertise for a hair and make up team(like rock challenge) and have big hair and bright make up.

Jodie :)

FW:

I agree with ryan because then it will give the full effect of how Alice felt, and also it will make the piece easier for the audience to understand! It's a creative idea!:)

Kirstie:)

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I agree with ryan, because then it will give the full effect of how Alice felt when she was small, and also maybe this will make it easier for the audience to understand! It's a creative idea!:)

I agree with ryan, because then it will give the full effect of how Alice felt when she was small, and also maybe this will make it easier for the audience to understand! It's a creative idea!:)

i think that all the set should be bigger than us, all the props could be really big to make us look small. i also think that it would be good to use the whole hall as a dance area.
thanks for reading

ryan spoona

I think we should have a choregraphed piece were half the dancers are in red and the other half are in white having a battle dance. This would be effective at the end of the dance show because in the film it is the final battle on the chess board. i agree with shaunie and sophys ideas aswel because it'll make our dance show unique.

bethanie

I thought we could make props for the show like mushrooms,trees,rabbits,flowers etc to place in the hall so that it makes the hall look more brighter and less dull.We could also put pictures up from parts of the scenes in Alice and wonderland around the hall and entrance of the school.
Shaunie.

I thought if we did a dance to the music that is used in the film when alice falls down the hole we could do a dramatic piece. We could make it quite big and bold as a dance with lot's of turns and jumps, which would give the effect of falling and using levels.. the dance could maybe finish on the floor.
Sophy

The shows theme has been decided as 'Alice in Wonderland'

Miss Hardy