Red Riding Hood Melody

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# Melody, Melody

# Listen to the music, let your mind run free

# Melody, Melody

# From a castle or the jungle to the Arctic Sea

# It could be as loud as a storm

# Or quiet as a sigh

# As dainty as a dance step

# Or soaring high in the sky

# Melody, Melody

# Listen to the music, let your mind run free

# Melody, Melody

# The musical imaginings of Melody. #

'Today, I am dressing up.

'Wearing masks make you feel like you are someone else.

'This mask is all bumpy with a crooked nose. It's a witch's mask!'

Ha-ha, ha-ha ha!

-Ooh, and who have we here?

-'You have to guess, Mummy.'

Your skin's all lumpy and bumpy,

your nose is all big and crooked,

and your hair is all...ugh...horrible.

-Are you a witch?

-Bwa-ha-ha-hah!

-Shall we play a game?

-Yeah!

-Are you going to close your eyes?

-OK.

-OK, right.

-'So, I closed my eyes...'

-Do you want to have a feel?

-'And feel Mummy's mask.'

-Ah, what can you feel up on top?

-Hair. And ears.

-What kind of creature might have that...

-A lion!

Yes! Well done! Right, my turn!

'It's Mummy's turn next.

'So, she closes her eyes and I pick something else.

'She reaches out her hands and feels for clues.'

Oooh, are these antlers?

-No.

-Are you a deer?

-No.

-Are you a rabbit?

'Mummy guessed right!

'I'm a rabbit!'

Mummy, do you have any music which makes you think of dressing up?

Well, I do have a piece of music that's very dramatic.

Makes me think of a really big adventure.

-Would you like to hear it?

-Yes, please!

'It's called Danse Macabre, composed by Saint-Saens.'

CROWS CAW, OWLS HOOT

Little Red Riding Hood is all alone in the forest.

OWLS HOOT

She is carrying a basket of cakes for her poorly granny.

LEAVES RUSTLE, SHE GASPS

BELL TINKLES

FUDGE MIAOWS

-FUDGE PURRS

-Come along, Fudge.

HE SNUFFLES

WOLF HOWLS

It's a big, bad wolf!

Aww! He doesn't look too bad to me.

"What is your name, little girl?"

"My name is Little Red Riding Hood."

"And where are you going today?"

"To see my poorly Granny in a cottage near here."

"A cottage, you say? Then I know it," says the wolf.

And he runs away.

She's falling!

Oof! You OK, Fudge?

HEDGEHOG SNUFFLING

BAT SQUEAKS

MOUSE SQUEAKS

OWL HOOTS

"Hello, my dear," says Granny.

"Granny, you have such big ears!"

"All the better to hear you with, my dear."

"Granny, what big eyes you have!"

"All the better to see you with, my dear!"

"Granny, what sharp teeth you have!"

"All the better to gobble you up, my dear!"

THUD!

SMASHING GLASS

BANGING AND CRASHING

A woodsman has come to save us!

FUDGE MIAOWS

THUMP!

THUMPING

HE WHINES

So, now Granny's safe, we can eat the cakes. Yummy!

'Mummy, Fudge and me are in the kitchen.

'Mummy's made us some cakes.'

What's the matter, Melody?

How do I know it's you and not the big, bad wolf in disguise?

Oh!

Well, how about you feel my face to see?

'Mummy held my hand to her face.'

-Do I have big ears like the big, bad wolf?

-No.

-Do I have big eyes like the big, bad wolf?

-No.

-Do I have big teeth like the big, bad wolf?

-No.

'It was definitely my beautiful mummy.'

Aww, I love you too, Melody!

That music made me think of a big, bad wolf.

What does it make you think of?

Abracadabra, Fudge!

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd