These photos are what inspired our Victorian/ old style school, what we took from this picture was the desks directly behind each other, if we could we would raise the line behind but we wouldn't have time to do so in our performance, we also have everyone at their own individual table, this is to show that the children are not to speak to each other. One thing I noticed about the picture of all the students is none of them look scared or unhappy and neither does the teacher, I think even though Victorian schools are portrayed to be a place of misery and punishment we could perhaps show a different side to what people are used to seeing and go down the route of all the kids looking happy and willing to learn, this would perhaps create a better contrast to the school setting in the future and show how respect for teachers has deteriorated.
Another thing I find interesting is the different price of sending a child to school depending on what they write on, this could be something we show by having a class system of more wealthy children sitting at the front with paper and books and the worse off children sitting at the back with slate.
Attention to detail will be key on this scene as everyone's hair and uniform will have to be spick and span as this is one of the classroom rules.
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