Matilda- Monday 30th January 2017

Today's lesson was our singing lesson. We began our lesson by warming up. We did a half an hour warm up to ensure that our vocals were all warm and our bodies were warm too. When we were warming up our bodies we made sure that we had stretched our muscles out. After we warmed out bodies up we moved onto our vocals. Some of the warms up we did included warming up our diaphragm and ensure we are using it properly.  We also did breathing exercises which were to help work on expanding our rib-cadges and when we are performing it should help us when singing and dancing at the same time. We then moved onto technique, this included exercises to help us with our diction and holding notes. We had to work on diction because the song is up tempo and quiet fast so this means we need to sing quicker but we still need to sing all of the words correctly and not slur all of them.  

After we had all made sure we had warmed up properly, we split into our dance groups so that we could rehearse the song. My group ran through the number once to see how much we could remember and what bits looked really sharp and also what other section we needed to work on. We knew that we needed to work on the section with the boxes (props) because there was little things in that which we kept messing up such as the bit when one of the younger children is supposed to push a box to one of the older girls, she kept forgetting to do it so we ran it over and over so she could remember. After we had made sure that all of the section what we had done with the section was sharp we ran through the number again and again so that we could keep making the performance stronger each time and we can all still become more confident in it. Also in this lesson we worked a lot on staging to make sure that we was using as much of the stage as we could and to make sure that we wasn't all to crowded.

I still haven't worked on my facial expressions much because i am focusing on my facial expression so much. For next lesson my target is to improve my characterisation and my facial expressions. I think now that we all know the choreography very well and we all know where we have to be at what time it will be easier for us to work on charaterisation.