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This document provides guidance for teachers to help students create settings inspired by the locations in Aladdin through drawing, modelling, and performance. It suggests having students: 1. Discuss and describe the key locations in Aladdin to understand their importance to the story. 2. Work in groups to research and recreate one setting through drawing, building models, experimenting with lighting/sound effects, and creating props. 3. Use a storyboard worksheet to build up a setting over multiple frames, adding details in each new frame.

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Art and Design

This document provides guidance for teachers to help students create settings inspired by the locations in Aladdin through drawing, modelling, and performance. It suggests having students: 1. Discuss and describe the key locations in Aladdin to understand their importance to the story. 2. Work in groups to research and recreate one setting through drawing, building models, experimenting with lighting/sound effects, and creating props. 3. Use a storyboard worksheet to build up a setting over multiple frames, adding details in each new frame.

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INSPIRATION CARD 5: ART AND DESIGN

DRAWING AND MODELLING SETTINGS IN ALADDIN


In the theatre, part of a dramaturg’s job is to research the world of the play and share their findings with the
writers, actors, director, and designers to help them with their work. A dramaturg will often create a display
board for everyone to reference during rehearsals

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING SETTINGS INSPIRED BY ALADDIN


1. Talk about the settings and scenery in Aladdin with your class. How important were they in helping to
tell the story? Ask the children to name the key locations where action takes place and write these on
the board.

2. Ask them to think about the main visual features of these different places. How do we know where we are?
Ask them to work together to come up with some adjectives to describe the locations and how they help to
identify the scene. As well as the scenery, what other theatrical components help to tell the story?
• Lighting to create moods/Music to signal entrances or characters/Sound effects/Props.

PERFORMANCE: CREATING A SET


Split the class into groups and have each work on one setting so that you can recreate
the whole show. Ask them to research pictures and descriptions to help use as references.
If the children have written a new scene from Inspiration Card 2 e.g. Agrabah is completely
flooded after heavy rain, then they can work on that.

Ask the class to create and dress settings in different ways:

CREATING SCENERY
Use the storyboard worksheet (supplied) to build
up a setting stage by stage. They draw a basic
STARTING WITH backdrop in the first frame (i.e. dunes and sky)
A MOOD BOARD and copy that across all frames, frame two,
Pupils can experiment with colour palettes and add the entrance to the Cave and copy,
different textures of materials using resources they frame three add palm trees etc.
bring in from home and other sources.
If you have tablets or iPads in the class, children can
use those to layer up their boards, change background
colours and experiment with different images and words
(e.g. black and white vs full colour).

CREATING SETS
Model designs in 3D using shoe boxes or
cardboard boxes cut away on one vertical side
to create a stage environment. Different groups
WORKING WITH of children measure and design their scenery
LIGHTING AND SOUND so that it can be interchanged.
Experiment with day and night settings
and with light effects using torches and using
coloured plastic wallets as gels! Make props out of modelling clay or other
materials in the classroom.
Think about how to create the moods and
sound effects that will be needed in their scene Use ICT to find and create realistic
(e.g. background noise in the market). backdrops to the action.
Can they link characters to particular
pieces of music?
PSHE: OTHER IDEAS FOR MOOD BOARDS
You could suggest children create mood boards inspired by the Aladdin story but
personalised to their own imagination.

• Our own Cave of Wonders


• My amazing Magic Carpet ride
• My three wishes

INSPIRATION FROM SCENES IN ALADDIN


Using the internet and other sources children could research Islamic design, art and fretwork in more detail.
They could draw minarets and domes. Try experimenting with paper cutting to create repeating fretwork
effects and colour them in or stick them on to different colour backgrounds.
Link with number sequences, Fibonacci and the golden triangle, symmetry and rotation.

Illustration by Edmund Dulac.


STORYBOARD WORKSHEET

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PLANNING AND BUILDING A CLASS MODEL
Draw, design or build a class model of Jasmine’s palace out of recycled materials.

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