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Objectives
In this activity you will think about the effect that background music has on an audience. You will take part in a hot-seating exercise in which the questioners have the most important role because the character in the hot-seat may only give the answers "yes" and "no"!
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Outcomes
By working through this activity you will:
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complete a storyboard in which you assess a selection of background music and record the results of your hot-seating work.
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Resources
To complete the activities you will need access to:
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Kar2ouche Rehearsal Room Content Library
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1. First read the text "Mothers and Daughters" and/or listen to the audio files.
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2. Next, open the Mothers and Daughters storyboard. Click on the second frame, and then click on the speaker icon in the frame’s thumbnail to hear the music file. Think about the effect this background music would have on an audience and type your answer into the caption window. (Delete the question to give yourself more space if you need it!)
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To open the Mothers and Daughters storyboard
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3. Now click on the second and third frames and listen and respond to these pieces of music.
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4. In your groups, hot-seat the characters of the mother and the daughter. During this exercise, the character in the hot-seat may only answer "yes" or "no" to a question, so the questioners (who could include the waiter and other diners) will have to think out their questions very carefully.
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5. Your group will have the chance to show what you think are your two best hot-seating questions to the rest of your class, and to watch and discuss other groups’ work.
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6. Now complete the Mothers and Daughters storyboard so that you have a record of the work you have done on this text for your notebooks.
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To open the Mothers and Daughters storyboard
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7. You may wish to extend the storyboard by creating frames showing key moments from the extract and indicating how you would stage them. Choose a background, add props, characters, speech and thought bubbles, and soundfiles. You may use the caption window to add your comments to the storyboard.
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