Our Visit to MidKent College

I picked up Lorraine, Andrea and Amy to get to the Razamatazz practice at 2pm; meeting Hayley was great - she was so polite, grateful and friendly to us - it was very reassuring that we were working with someone like her.
Once we had seen the children warm up, they showed us what they intended to do for the elephant. It made sense upon seeing it in person - two girls would form the head, then they would piggyback two other girls who would hold their arms out to be the elephant's ears. Behind them were two girls acting as front legs, two girls to hold the body panels, two girls as back legs - and finally, a girl holding a tail.
The giraffe was formed of a tall person with a smaller child on their shoulders. The zebras danced across the stage, thundering in a herd, and the cheetahs slyly travelled around the moving elephant. Even though the production was in very early stages, it looked great. It definitely inspired me - I could really see how everything was going to come together with all the animals, and we got a lot of our questions answered.

Here is an example of the measurements of the actors on the day. For most mask-based costumes we took the head, neck, waist, shoulders and hips, for the respective head dress, possible shoulder draping and tail. For some other costumes, we took completely different measurements - for example, the arm length of the girls who were to hold the elephant's ears.