Fairy Tales: Story Boards, Tableau Vivant and Snap Shots

Students chose a fairy tale and structured the story line, condensed it, assigned characters to the members of the group, created tableaux scenes and took snap shots of the scenes created. From a directorial point of view, the purpose was to organize the story through a number of frames (snap shots) that when put together, in order, will make the story more understandable and easy to tell.

SHREK

Shrek, a green ogre who loves the solitude of his swamp, finds his life interrupted when countless fairytale creatures are exiled there by the fairytale-hating and vertically-challenged Lord Farquaad of Duloc. An angered Shrek decides to ask Farquaad to exile them elsewhere. He brings along a talking Donkey, who is the only fairytale creature willing to guide him to Duloc.






BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

One winter's night, an enchantress disguised as a beggar offers a cold-hearted prince a rose in exchange for shelter. When he refuses, she transforms him into a beast and his servants into household objects. She bestows the Beast with a magic mirror before hexing the rose and warning him that, unless he learns to love another and earns their love in return by the time the last petal falls, he and his servants will lose their humanity forever.






GOLDiLOCKS & THE 3 BEARS
Three bears – "a little, small, wee bear, a middle-sized bear, and a great, huge bear" – live together in a house in the woods. They are very good-natured, trusting, harmless, tidy, and hospitable. Each of these "bachelor" bears has his own porridge bowl, chair, and bed. One day they make porridge for breakfast, but it's too hot to eat, so they take a walk in the woods while their porridge cools. A little girl named Goldilocks approaches the bears' house. As she has been sent out by her family, she is a disgrace to them. She is impudent, bad, foul-mouthed, ugly, dirty, and a vagrant deserving of a stint in the House of Correction. She looks through a window, peeps through the keyhole, and lifts the latch. Assured that no one is home, she walks in. Goldilocks eats the Wee Bear's porridge, then settles into his chair and breaks it. Prowling about, she finds the bears' beds and falls asleep in Wee Bear's bed. The dark end of the tale is reached when the bears return. Wee Bear finds his empty bowl, his broken chair, and Goldilocks in his bed and cries, "Somebody has been lying in my bed, and here she is!" Goldilocks wakes, jumps out the window and is never seen again.













































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  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2018 at 1:01 PM

    looking at the pictures it is apparent that everyone found a way to fit the main points of the story into their selected photos. i could get a pretty good idea of what was going on during each picture and how it contributed to the story as a whole. i think this activity is beneficial because it allows students to reflect on information they already know, and then expand upon it in any way that they want. students can be creative but also stick to a general track of what the final product should communicate.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2018 at 1:02 PM

      julia rose

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    2. ArtlanderOctober 23, 2018 at 8:10 AM

      Thank you Julia. I agree, in this case creativity, in conjunction with organizational skills, functional group dynamics and a lineal sense of story telling, is necessary to tell a good story.

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