Today we created our Victorian caning scene. We wanted to go into the past and show what education/discipline was like back in a stricter time, a time with strong rules and when students feared their teachers. We used a Victorian era because we all felt that was a time when this form of teaching was at its peek. We also wanted to use the soundscape idea we used before and have that lead us into this scene, so we have an effective transition and a clear difference between a modern class and a Victorian class. We created the simple repetitive movement to reflect the way teaching was done, copy what your teacher wrote then rub it off and start again, everyone doing the same thing, working in the same way, at the same speed regardless of who you are. We also threw in some other historical facts (everyone had to be right handed, everyone had to have good posture, only boys went to higher education) we used a whipping sound for the actual caning because it sounds more painful and in the silence of the room, the whip has a clear ring to it that we found suiting for our piece.
After this lesson I feel that our next stage is running what we have got with the desks and possibly costumes.
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