Victorian piece

Today in lesson we talked about what we wanted from our piece as well as how we plan on putting all of our alternative schools we want to create. we want to create a Modern school (sound scape), Victorian school (Contemporary) and 2 future pieces that show a version of the future where children run wild as well as a future that has had corporal punishment become extreme. To link all of these piece so that our devised doesn't seem like a school timeline, we are going to create a meeting between 6 teachers talking about the respect that students give to teachers. These meetings will set up the piece that follows and will keep talking about the issue of respect and how it should be resolved.

We started creating our Victorian flash back piece that has Dan M as our teacher and the rest of us as students. Me, Kyle, Meg, Toby and Carl are sat in a square shape with Kyle in the centre. Dan starts our piece walk around us slowly and slapping our chair with an order like "sit up" or "use your right hand". Dan will eventually sit down at the front of the class which is when we wanted to start music but one of us had the idea of using a metronome as our music. So when Dan sits down a ticking of the metronome starts as the rest of us pretend to write. Dan starts a repeated pattern using a book that matches the beats of the metronome that goes:

Smack edge of book (1 tick)
Slam book down (1 tick)
Open book (1 tick)
Write (2 tick)
Close book (1 tick)

Repeat

After Dan completes this movement Meg and Carl join in followed by Kyle. Me and Toby join in after Kyle. This is on repeat until Kyle drop his pen causing the metronome to stop and us all to stare at him. Dan slowly moves towards him then moves him to his desk which starts our next sound effect of a cane smacking someone. In time with the recording Dan canes Kyle until our lights fade out ending the piece.