After our group discussion we have finally came to the decision that focusing on 'The Old Wise Owl' nursery rhyme as our visual reference would have been too challenging to convey its meaning and value, due to the fact of not being a well known nursery rhyme.
However, we all have decided that nursery rhymes are still our main focus point, focusing on the dark and psychological meaning and context of them before Disney and the 'clean teen act' came along. We want to highlight the fact of nursery rhymes meanings becoming lost. We like the idea of twisting the social connections of these rhymes; touching on issues that are present outside the context of the pieces and in society itself. From looking back at our work, we defiantly want to progress with twisting society's expectations of certain people and their value; This was Christies example of this idea : women's role; that even after the suffragette movement and Margret Thatcher, there is still a social barrier that excludes women from a male dominated society as they are still seen as the nurturing body.
However, we all have decided that nursery rhymes are still our main focus point, focusing on the dark and psychological meaning and context of them before Disney and the 'clean teen act' came along. We want to highlight the fact of nursery rhymes meanings becoming lost. We like the idea of twisting the social connections of these rhymes; touching on issues that are present outside the context of the pieces and in society itself. From looking back at our work, we defiantly want to progress with twisting society's expectations of certain people and their value; This was Christies example of this idea : women's role; that even after the suffragette movement and Margret Thatcher, there is still a social barrier that excludes women from a male dominated society as they are still seen as the nurturing body.
We all wanted to convey the idea of role reverse, the idea of the unexpected. So the group and I, looked at the Nursery Rhyme 'Little Bow Peep'. We were intrigued of how we could portray the idea of the little girl loosing her sheep; perhaps a metaphor for her changing from a girl into a woman? The innocent being exposed to the big bad scary world. These ideas highlight the notes that we were discussing earlier in the week.
MORE IDEAS FROM GROUP DEISCUSSION…..
Ø>Even though the nursery rhyme was spoken to and edited for children, we could address adult issues and have a modern look of it in a contemporary context.
> Keep items such as the hook to give visual reference to the rhyme.
ØInstead of saving the sheep, perhaps she is eating them (a turkey drumstick).
Ø Table is wonky, the unnatural balance of things (inspired by the scene when Alice is falling through the hole in Alice in Wonderland). Everything is miss matched and out of place.
> Set build is centred around a place in the middle of the woods, eerie and unsettling. Victorian style lamps are hung from the branches a pile of 'bones' from the sheep. Model very un - feminine (messy makeup, table manners non-existing, 'blood round the mouth' etc)
> Instead of creating a set that has fantasy elements reminiscent of Tim Burton or Tim Walker; look to create atmospheric elements through the props; a sense of eeriness and the psychological.
As this rhyme is better known than the 'Old Wise Owl‘, my group felt we had more freedom to experiment with the social connections of this rhyme, emphasizing the different avenues and ideas that we could work on as a group. However we still wanted to keep certain aspects of the rhyme as clear reference points to enable the audience to fully understand the context of this piece of work e.g. the idea of the backdrop being in the woods …..
Little Bo peep has lost her sheepAnd doesn't know where to find them.Leave them alone and they'll come home,Bringing their tails behind them.Little Bo peep fell fast asleepAnd dreamt she heard them bleating,But when she awoke, she found it a joke,For they were all still fleeting.Then up she took her little crook.
Determined for her to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,For they left their tails behind them.It happened one day, as Bo peep did strayInto a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails side by sideAll hung on a tree to dry.She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,And over the hillocks went rambling,And tried what she could,As a shepherdess should,To tack again each to its lambkin.
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