- Loading…
Lessons with 5 graders about shadow theatre.
Learners listen short Fairy-tale “The Foolish Man” by famous Armenian writter Hovhannes Tumanyan, Draw an illustrative picture of the Fairy-tale, they can draw and paint, work with mixed media, then we will talk about shadow theatre and then will draw characters from their illustration on white paper and cut it, as we have cutted caracters with scisors, we will use phone light and Our Manipulative1XYZ (Filed activity-project) for understanding how we can improve drawing for shadow theatre, than we made pictures from their sketches by phone, import them into inkspace programm, and part by part outlined them with pentool. After it I show them how they can save it as SVG. The next step is to laser cutt from SVG in FAB-lab Dilijan, So we combined traditional methods and digital methods. then they glue wooden sticks to their characters and start their little theatre activity.
Flashlights or desk lamps
Cardstock or sturdy paper for puppets
Scissors, craft knives, and hole punches
Wooden sticks, straws, or skewers (for puppet handles)
Transparent, opaque, and translucent materials (e.g., tissue paper, plastic sheets)
A large white screen or sheet (for the theatre backdrop)
Tape, glue, and markers
Computers
Laser cutter
Through this activity, learners will:
Learners were very Excited to listen fairy tale to draw characetrs and scenes, compare their drawing to another student darwings, they saw how the same words can be transformed by imagination, and how perception of the story differs.
Listening was sinchronize with drawing process, so they listen and draw same time, they working on Picture average for 30-40 minutes, then they copy their characters on white paper on window, each student copy one of their character from fairy tale, it takes 10 minutes.
I asked them to cut it with scissors, and test wit light sorce on our little mainipulativexyz, as a primary shadow theatre model, then they are discussing which models-chatacters are more suitable for light and shadow game, some of them decidesd to change a bit their “puppets”, by redrawing or gluing and cutting some parts from “puppets”. They were engaged in the process, they are discussing how nice is looking their friends “drawings” for the shadow and light.
Iimproving Characters`s models takes 30-40 minutes, and they vote for characters, so we were able to choose at least one character from each student for creating fairy tale.
They taook a photo from choosen files, and I introduces inkspace, importing picture and how we can outline from picture and make SVG file. Next step is digitalaizing session, they work in inkspace with simple tools with my help. Then we go to Fab Lab Dilijan and I intriducesd them laser-cutting process. they were watching how their characters were cutting with maschine, talking about effect of laser, and how “pure cuiting” gives laser.
The benefits are coonections between literature, traditional art teqniques and digital fabrication tools.
For the digital fabrication is a very little pesronal experience, as time was short and they coulld experince a little.
Listen and draw the same time (20 minutes)
Synchronising listening and drawing,
Explain that students will create their own models for Shadow Theatre for Fairy Tail.
Make copies from picture, cut with scisors nad try with light source, how it will work as Shadow theatre puppet. Continue working on Picture and improving characters according to task.
Allow groups to work together on designing their puppets.
Work with light and white surface to simulate shadoew theatre conditions, discuss what part of their drawings they should change to make drawing more understandable and expressive for theatre.
Introducing that digital fabrication is working with digitalized pictures, and specific formats for laser cutting.
Take a picture of drawings.
Import them to Inkspace.
Outline with pen tool, save in SVG Format.
Laser cutting process.
Set up puppets for at least one scene from fairy tale, make a little performance.
Having trouble? Let us know by completing the form below. We'll do our best to get your issues resolved quickly.
"*" indicates required fields
