Meeting with June
During the Meeting with June today she looked through my ideas, and although she liked most of them, she explained that the school would not cater to things that are too progressive or out of character. They have a very simple approach to making and a tight budget that wouldn't stretch to using camera-less photography methods, film work or standard photography. She picked out mask making, and creating tudor purses as favoured Ideas to work on further.
I will research elizabethan masques, the origins and connotations etc, then simplify this to put toward a design technology handbook for the children to work in outlining objectives and design proposals etc.
Evaluation
This meeting gave me the feeling that I should consider teaching in a high school more seriously. The limited resources and approaches may be something that I find doesn't provide enough of a challenge later on in my career. I would enjoy teaching using a wider range of materials and techniques.
However, for the mean time, research mask making, contemporary and modern approaches etc, are there any exhibitions on etc
Also, research tudor portraits for the two weeks at the end of the workshops on masks...
visit galleries etc with tudor portraits
or historic houses etc...
elizabethan houses? burleigbh house was elizabethan wasnt it?? visit there again?
on the subject of masks, how do i tie this in with my own work?
If we begin with the knowledge that one of the most frequent words used in the works of shakespeare, is "dream". A dominant theme throughout his works is the opposition of fantasy and reality, and often, the confusion of the two.
This career long fascination is summed up when the wizard prospero, in shakespeares fantasy play "the tempest" , utters what was to be shakespeares most famous quote re: dreams, perhaps the most of all time.
" we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep"
Masks explore the notion of fantasty versus reality in that we as reality inhabit them as a character thus becoming a fantasy or fiction.
Equally during the elizabethan times, masks were used dominantly in the theatre and also during balls, for entertainment and disguise etc.
Children can choose whether they want to be directly inspired by the play, perhaps creating something in line with the fairies, or they can just create an ornate elizabethan inspired mask.
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