we all had to give in our presentations and watch each others
marshall- his presentation was about pantaloe, i really liked his because he had to do it by himself which is hard as you have no one to rely on but yourself. i liked the way he mixed the presentation from speaking to drawing pictures it gave a personal touch.
me and nerissa- our presentation was really well thought out we had videos for evidence music and there was gif we wanted to make ours fun to watch so your learning but having fun at the same time. i think we work really hard on what we did 
claire and faith- i liked thier piece it was packed full of good information some of it i didnt even know so i was learning the only thing i could say was to make it more enjoyable to look at
annie and victor- the presentation was them reading a from paper so it was good but again could have used more fun based things.
two roles essay/powerpoint
panto essay
Pantomime began in 16th century, the word comes
from the Greek words ‘pan’ and ‘mimos’ which translates to ‘all imitating’. The
ancient Greeks would put on pantomimes as a popular source of entertainment
(they were mostly comedies or tragedies) and it was performed as a regular part
of theatre. Many silent movies had themes of pantos in them for example there
was always a clumsy/dumb character in pantomimes and Charlie Chaplin was seen
as a clumsy in his silent movies. Pantomimes are always being changed to fit
modern day trends for example in the olden days they might have made jokes about
kings and queens being rude to servants but now days pantomimes might make fun
of the Kardashian’s, Beyonce e.g. by the early 1800s pantomimes started
focusing on fairy tales, stories and/or nursery rhymes, Harlequinade is a
British character (originally Arlecchino) who would add slapstick comedy You would often
see a story where Harlequinade is in love with the beautiful servant Columbina
but her father usually doctor or pantaloon, who is greedy, is on a mission to
keep the lovers apart, this would create problems and difficulties for the
characters. This usually involved a comedic chase scene. In pantomimes you
usually always get audience participation and the most used one id “he’s/she’s
behind you” i think that breaking the fourth wall and using the audience in
your play makes it a fun experience and that’s why pantomimes are so popular
it’s an experience for the whole family to enjoy. Pantomimes usually have
double entendre so that when families go there is something for everyone in the
audience to enjoy. Pantomimes are also so over the top and there are usually a
lot of characters that are stereotypical, one character that is very popular is
the dame character who is typically a man dressed up like a woman with really
bad make up and awful drag this adds a sense of comedy as the person who plays
the dame is really over acting the role.
In Commedia
Dell’Arte there are stock characters who make the plays fun to watch as
although they are who they are in different stories they go through different
plots. The stock characters are Zanni who is the lowest servant, Pantalone who
is rich and is sometimes played as the father of one of the lovers, the doctor
who is always giving bad advice to people and is very rich and walks with his
stomach out, Arlecchino who is another high class servant he is usually wearing
a slapstick around his waist and he is one of the lovers, Colombina who is a
servent who wears quite fine clothes and is very well mannered, there is also
the captain who is usually one of the lovers fathers or trying to get one of
the lovers. Commedia Dell’Arte really added the performance to pantomime as it
brought a comedic and musical side.
When making our own pantomimes it really helped me to watch
clips of different styles of pantomimes and also different times so I watched
some from 40-50 years ago then ones that are recent so I could gather different
ideas. When it came to making a piece from a story I started thinking how could
we make fairytales modern and how could we add comedy to our panto. We started
by merging different elements from different classic fairytales and slowly
modernising it to the point where we were using themes like a high school dance
and I phones and using ingredients for a potion that where body parts of famous
celebrities. In the end I think my group really captured the themes of pantos
there was comedy, classic characters and a clear story there was also modern
songs to give it that extra push towards making it more this time. Watching the
second years do their pantomime was really fun they had loads of interaction
with the audience which is classic pantomime and they kept their energy up
throughout which I though must have been really hard as no one walking around
all day being extra happy and over amazed by everything. I think they way they modernised the jokes really
paid of and the song choices they did was really fun and refreshing.
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