Matilda- Tuesday 24th January 2017

Todays lesson was our drama lesson. In this lesson, we focussed on our characterisation and having more eye contact with the audience and other performers. Even thought it was a dram lesson we still warmed up our vocals so that we wouldn't strain them as we would be still be singing whilst rehearsing. We also done a physical warm up so that we could warm up our muscles so that we didn't hurt ourselves. It is important that all performers warm themselves up because if they don't ten they could seriously injure themselves which may end up with them ending their career in the business. Also, warming up helps performers improve their skills and learn new ones.

To start the lesson off, we split into our two groups to performer the song to each other to show what we had done. My group went first. I felt as though we could have performed a lot better and we could have lots more energy. I don't think we was sharp enough with our movements or big enough. I think that our singing was okay but we could still work on our harmonies more to make sure that the audience can really hear them. After we had performed our number the audience gave us feedback. They said that we need to have more of a relationship with each other and sing and interact with each other more and also we should have more eye contact with the audience so it would show our character more as our character is an intimidating character.

After we had both performed our version of the song to each other we split into groups of 4. We did an exercise which will help with our characterisation. In this piece we wasn't allowed to talk we had to use our expressions and our movements so that the audience could understand our routine. My group had to do a piece which had year 9's in it which were picking on a year 7. The year 7 wanted to walk past us and get through but we wouldn't let her and we was being horrible to her and intimidating her. I realised whilst doing this exercise that I need to use my facial expressions much ore and make all my movements 100 times bigger.
After we had done this exercise we had to apply the things we had learnt into "School song". I think that this exercise helped me a lot in building my character and making me a stronger performer.

My target for next lesson is to learn more of the dance and make sure that I apply all the facial expressions into the number and making sure that I have more eye contact with the audience.