Todays class was drama. In this lesson we used our time to rehearse the first half of the number to make sure that we had all got it correct. Before we started to rehearse the number we all warmed up to ensure that we wouldn't get injured. Today was my day to warm everyone up in the first half an hour so i had thought of a game which i knew everyone enjoyed and also it warmed everyone up.First, we warmed up physically (our bodies). We done this by playing a game which stretched out in. After that, we warmed up our voices by singing "Donna" and also we sung through "1,1 2 1, 1 2 3 2 1" song as we all enjoy this and feel as though this one warms up our voices well.
After warming up we split into our two groups and started to rehearse. As i had missed when my group had choreographed the first part of the song i had to learn it in the lesson. I watched them run through it once so that i could get in my head what movements they were doing. Once i had watched it we all went through it slowly and step by step so that i could learn it. When we was doing it step by step i felt like i picked it up really quickly and i was remembering it well. After we had changed a couple of movements to make sure that the performance could be as good as we could get it, we moved on to the next section of the song which started "But if i try i can remember". We felt like the movements which we cam up with for this section worked really well as we thought of how the characters would actually feel and we have choreographed movements accordingly to the words. After we had finished choreographing the section we was on, we knew the next section so we run up to where we was told to stop which was "you better learn to listen kid". We ran through the whole of the first section a couple of times with the music but you could tell that we still wasn't fully confident with it because we messed up a couple of things and also we was looking round at other people to make sure we was on the right section. Also, our singing had dropped a bit because we was focusing so much on the moves so we needed to get the singing back up and make sure we had the harmonies in. We thought that the synchronized section looked really strong as we was all doing the same movements and it was sharp.
Near the end of the lesson, we performed back to the other group so that we could get feedback from them and we could see where we have to improve. The other group said back to us that we still need to work on our facial expressions and make sure that they are strong through out and we dont loose characteristic. They also said to us that we need to have more eye contact with the audience because we didn't have much and it looked like we didn't want them to be there.
I feel like in this lesson i have become more confident with the choreography and i now know exactly what i am doing for this section and also i know all of the words so i haven't got to worry about them.
For next lesson i want to improve my characterisation skills because at the minute i dont think that i stay in character very well and i need to stay in it throughout the whole song. Also, i feel like i need to improve my facial expressions because i feel like they could be a lot stronger.
No comments:
Post a Comment