Today we started the new project - Bollywood. We are going to be making a short 20 minute film in which some people will be acting and singing, and others will be making and performing a puppet flash back sequence. There will also be an stop-motion animation title sequence and a 'making of' documentary. Students have already created the music for the titles and a dance sequence on the flexible day (write this up as a separate post).

Period 1 we were joined by Don, a professional film maker and Phillip, a scriptwriter. Don is going to be working with us throughout the project, and he gave us all an intro to film making and wanted to find out a little bit all the class. Students then found out which groups they are in - Art/Media or Drama/Dance. We had a look at clips from a film called 'Never Say Goodbye' which is a modern Bollywood film set in New York. We watched a musical dance sequence which was very fast paced and bangra in style. There were a large number of females dancing in unison in colourful costumes such as saris, salwar kameez and lehengas. There were two males in red and black dancing at the centre. The mood was very light hearted.

We then split in to our Media/Dance groups. Since dance was only 15minutes we only had enough time to tell our teacher (Ms. Shrubs) about our characters. We where also given homework. *Research on Bollywood*