The Clock Tower
A beautiful dancer spends all of her life stuck at the top of the clock tower. She spins on her toes incessantly in order for the clock to work.
One day she becomes curious about the world outside, especially the balloons that float past her window.
As she steps into the outside world something has changed. All the colour has gone from the world and everything is frozen in time.
The only thing that can bring it to life is our beautiful dancer, powering the clock again.
Teaching Ideas
The opening shots and panorama of the village present an ideal opportunity to use rich description. This setting could be used for children to create their own stories in. Perhaps create characters to live in these homes. Children could create their own fairy tale village using junk and papier mache or modroc to populate with characters..
Write a back story or prequel to describe how the girl became the perpetual dancer. Was she cursed by a witch? Tricked by an evil prince etc?
Children could create a story based on her rescue [link with Rapunzel] They will have to think about how they will get the clock to work without her. Maybe an inventor saves her. Perhaps it's the inventor from 'Red Miss Take' in The Inventor's Shed.
The children can practice using descriptive language to change the mood, the setting stays the same but goes from colourful to black and white. Can the children use subtle description to highlight the change in mood?
One day she becomes curious about the world outside, especially the balloons that float past her window.
As she steps into the outside world something has changed. All the colour has gone from the world and everything is frozen in time.
The only thing that can bring it to life is our beautiful dancer, powering the clock again.
Teaching Ideas
The opening shots and panorama of the village present an ideal opportunity to use rich description. This setting could be used for children to create their own stories in. Perhaps create characters to live in these homes. Children could create their own fairy tale village using junk and papier mache or modroc to populate with characters..
Write a back story or prequel to describe how the girl became the perpetual dancer. Was she cursed by a witch? Tricked by an evil prince etc?
Children could create a story based on her rescue [link with Rapunzel] They will have to think about how they will get the clock to work without her. Maybe an inventor saves her. Perhaps it's the inventor from 'Red Miss Take' in The Inventor's Shed.
The children can practice using descriptive language to change the mood, the setting stays the same but goes from colourful to black and white. Can the children use subtle description to highlight the change in mood?
