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This week was the main start of our production projects. Before the class came in I showed Mr. D the lesson plan I wrote out to keep my group on schedule and to also show him what we wanted to get accomplished with the kids for the day, but since each day something different happen we decided to make it the lesson plan for the whole week. My partner and I split up into our groups and took different parts of the class so we could talk with the students. Some of my students were in tutoring when we came up with our idea so we went back over the premise of the show. After this we went onto YouTube to show some of the kids different clips from Tosh.0 and Ridiculousness to try and get some of our own ideas and also show the kids the show we were basing off of because some of them have never watched one or the other and even some haven't seen either show so they didn't know what we were trying to go for. As we watched some of the videos some kids were more interested in not doing anything, but for the majority of the group it was helping them come up with new ideas that would then bring the kids that didn't want to think of anything into the conversation working off of other ideas. We came up with six or more different skits that the kids would have to work on while I was on Spring Break so when I came back the following week we could get in the studio and go over the different positions then put the actually show on during Thursdays class. When I came back on Thursday the kids kept working on their skits. I had them each talk about their idea and give a full outline to the other group members so we could work together on feedback and making it easier to film since they were restricted to in the school filming. After the kids went that had skits we wrote down what ones we wanted to film and planned out the layout for the in-studio production part. The kids kept changing their minds and trying to add more and more things to the script so I had to bring them back and continuously explain to them how long we had and that they were trying to get too complex with the in-studio parts. This part was hard because I could see it was getting everyone involved to talk about their different ideas but it was really slowing us down and getting their hopes up for things I knew they couldn’t finish if they tried adding everything. By the end of the class we got the introduction down and planned all the skits out and where they would be in the production. I also gave all the kids my email address to contact me over break if they had any problems with filming or working on the scripts. As the class was ending someone brought up that the week I would be coming back was the week of the schools PSSA’s would be in progress and the kids are given a full week of half days. I talked to Mr. D and he let the kids know if they wanted to stay after class Tuesday and Thursday my partner and I would come to work on the productions with them, but no one was really interested. So we will be continuing the production after the testing another week from now.

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