Some iconic images from Auschwitz, including Canada.

Production Meeting

today we worked out whose absent this week because of trips.
Daisy absent: Monday
Elsa absent: Wednesday
Mandi absent: Monday and Wednesday
Elle: Tuesday and Wednesday
Natalie: n/a
James: N/A
Becs: Tuesday

Because of this, we have planned around the absences and ordered our time sensibly so that we make the most out of the time that we are all around

Ah poor bird

I've just found out some interesting information out about our song 'Ah Poor Bird' (although i found this information out through a comment on youtube, it fits with the song even if it is unreliable)
The song is about a young woman who is forced to marry a horrible man and ends up committing suicide. this is 'supposedly' the song that he sings to her every year on their anniversary

Auschwitz research

Today I watched a programmed about prisoner and Nazi life in concentration camps and how this effected these people in later life. It focused on Hungarian Jews as well as Polish Jews. Some interesting facts were:

75% of Hungarian Jews died in Auschwitz.
Auschwitz protocol allowed allies to understand layout of camp from escaped prisoners.
From 1944 Jewish organisation requested that the railway line to Auschwitz was bombed. All ideas to bomb it were forwarded to the USA and 'forgotten' about.
21000 out of 23000 gypsies died. Gypsies were the only people to be treated nearly as badly as the Jews.
On the 2nd of August 1944, the gypsy camp was liquidated in Auschwitz Birkenau. After this killing dropped from 10000 people per day to 1000.
On the 7th October 1944, sonderkommando set fire to crematorium 1 and 2 and attacked their SS guards with rocks and pickaxes. Some managed to escape into the woods but were rounded up and every third man was shot. Only 92 men were left alive.

I will upload notes from the second episode soon.

Witch Craft

In this lesson I researched our second idea of Witch Hunts. I've found images of witch trials, a dunking, witch hunters and an old public poster. these will be uploaded later with full annotations.

05/03/2014

Much Ado Ideas

SIMPLICITY FOCUS AND SUBSTANCE

Elsa-
 mistrust of females- gender and sexuality
persecution of women- witch hunts
feminist twist
women being persecuted for being women
gothic/supernatural twist
historical context
Don John? why is he the way he is and does what he does?
Daisy-
live music
audience participation
feminism
homosexuality- 2 females (hero and claudia)
acceptance
prejudice against women
gender swap
Elle-
narration
audience participation
perspective of leonato and hero rebelling with her friends being the witches
how society views the couples in much ado
James-
Nazi Germany
SS officer falling in love with someone in Auschwitz (benedick and beatrice)
live music- jewish?
Schindlers List
My Idea
set in WWII
juxtaposing music eg. Jazz in a war scene

In this lesson we discussed our ideas and discovered that the majority of our ideas fit together really well:
Feminism, WWII, live music, audience participation

04/03/2014

In this lesson we discussed our Fundraiser pitch to begin with and then moved on to making our own skills audits.
My Skills Audit:
violin
singing
classical music
folk music
musicals
jazz dance
1930's, 40's, 50's and 60's music and culture
audience participation
world war II- music and themes
costume (period)
dark comedy
seasons
film noir
breaking the fourth wall (Brecht)
performing outside
nightmares
Jekyll and Hyde
darkness vs. light
the tudors
heightened vs. real
shadows
the borgia's
lord of the rings
game of thrones
boldness
musical scoring
juxtaposition
warped circus
jazz
dream vs. reality vs. nightmare
projection
tim burton
rocky horror picture show