Reflection of the Performance (Post by Hiya)

I think that overall the performance went very well but there is lots of scope for improvement. One way we could improve was perfectly match the music with the puppets. I think that the puppets could also be improved as they could have more detail and cut outs to make it look better on  the screen. it would also be good if we had more time to practice together as that would improve our timing. If our group had some more setting puppets to make the audience more aware of where this story is set. on of the big problems was that the drums were too loud so we couldn't hear our narrator. But overall our performance was  good in the groups opinion.

Many thanks to our Arts Teachers
Miss Turner
Miss Cross
 

The Performance (Post by hiya and Video by Kimberly)

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Final Music and Puppets (Post by Hiya pictures and videos by Sofiya)

Lesson 6 and 7 (Post by Hiya, pictures by Sellahattin)

In this lesson the art students had to keep working on making their puppets that had now been enlarged from the designs in their books. They cut out the enlarged designs and stuck them onto card to give the puppets more structure. they also stuck stckis behind the puppets to make them easy to hold. This is a glimps of them working:

The music students started to write their own notes that were inspired by Lankaran and Cobowo but were modified depending on their stories. Hiya and Kimberly were on the piano playing the peeking notes on the piano using the pan flute sound. Sofiya was on the small xylophone for the clam part paling peeking, and then in the angry part she was playing her own notes. Emil was using the big drum to play in the angry part where he started slow, speeded up and then went back to playing slow. Ziad was in rhythm with Emil using a pair of sticks.
 

Lesson 4 (Post by Hiya, videos by Sofiya)

In this lesson the music students practiced the Lankar and Cobowo piece of music that they saw. in art the students started to create the puppets that they needed for the show. They way that they did this was by frawing figueir onto their copybooks and keeping the details in white and coloring the rest in balck. In music when the groups were happy with what their piece of music sounded like they recorded it and then did a peer reflection on it. After they got the reviews from their peers they tried to keep that in ming as they were creating their own pieces very soon.

 





Lankaran and Cobowo

Our groups playing Lankaran and Cobowo with peer reflection:

Lesson 3 (Post by Hiya)

In this lesson we had very little time together and then we had to split up. In the 15 minutes we had we decided what characters we would make as we could not make all of them. We also decided what was the mood like in the story, in the end we divided it into 3 main parts.

The characters that we were going to do were as follows:

1. Hanuman
2. Rama
3. Lakshmana
4. the queens
5. Witch/ doctor
6. Ravana
7. The Babies

Mood:

1. First part (Till damaged to take her out of the house)= Calm Music
2. Second Part (Till they had a war) = Angry/ war Music
3. Third part (till the end) = Calm Music

When we split up the music students learnt about the gamelan music and they also saw an example of a gamelan performance. In Art the students learnt about the skill of making shadow puppets, they also saw examples on how to make them. They started to plan the way that their puppets were going to be created. In music the students also saw a basic piece of music that they also tried called Lankar and Cobowo. We all tried to play the instruments of our ability and later we got into our business departments to practice it together.

Lesson 1 and 2 (Post by Hiya)

This was collaborative lesson which meant art and music were still working together. In this lesson we were introduced to the tale of the Ramayana and our project, we were also given the job to make our own version of the story and later on we were given the opportunity to choose the members of our company. after that we were introduced to the types of music and art work we will be doing, which as mentioned before was Indonesian.

This is the story we came up with:

Ayoda was generously ruled by king Dasharat who was the king of swag and was teaching everyone in his kingdom how to be swaggie. he had 3 girlfriends that he wanted to marry but he was really upset as none of them were able to give birth, so he took them to a doctor. the doctor gave each of them a syrup which would help. they all drank the syrup and gave birth to Rama, the oldest son, Lakshmana and a pair of twins. when the sons got older king Dasharat decided to give the throne to Rama who was now married to a beautiful woman called Sita, but then... a wicked witch in the palace told the mother of the twins that her son should be king and not Rama. The queen went and asked King Dasharat for 2 wishes, for her son to be king, and for Rama to be banished to the desert for 14 years.  Rama agreed and Sita and Lakshmana also asked to go with him,  he couldn't deny them and they went out of Ayoda.

They lived happily in the desert for 13 years but in the fourteenth year Sita saw a very beautiful falcon and wanted it, she asked Rama and Lakshmana to go and get it for her. Then Ravana, the owner of Ramen noodle Inc. and the king of daemons, came and managed to trick Sita out of her house and took her to the company. Just then her phone ran out of battery and so he could not call Rama. Rama saw Ravana heading up to the skies in his jet and fooled them, he could not reach them but he saw a bird whose wings were cut off and asked him where Sita had gone. He told them, Rama knew that Ravana had an army and that is why he went to the money king Hanuman and his gang to ask for help. They agreed, then at dawn the next day the monkey fighters and Ravana's army had a great war.

In the end Rama shot Ravana with a bow and the war ended, he took Sita and Lakshmana back to Ayoda. He was welcomed by the citizens with a festival of lights called Diwali. The twin gave the throne back to Rama and apologized for his mistake. They all lived happily ever after.