Today's lesson was our drama lesson. This lesson we used to rehearse the song as much as we can. At the begin of the lesson we had one of our group missing as they had to be somewhere. This means it was harder for us to rehearse as we didn't have everyone to go over everything with. This means when we got to the box section we struggled quiet a bit because in that section we all have to work together to make sure the boxes get to the right place at the correct time. Even though only one person missing it still means we all had to try and work around it as best as we could. Half way through the lesson we had our whole group which then made it so much easier to rehearse as we could go through all of it and show her which bits we had sharpened and made bigger and stronger. When we rehearsed we did it with the music and without the music. We did it without the music so we could do it slower to ensure we had a ll got the choreography correct and no one forgot any bits. We also did it with the music so we could make sure we was in time with the music so we could tell if we was to fast or to slow. We knew that we was always to quick on the section which begins "You listen hear my dear" until "Extremely careful". We sang through this a couple of times to make sure that we were all in time and not to quick.
After we had made sure all the choreography which we had done was correct and sharp we worked on our characterisation and making our characters a lot bigger. We started doing this by putting our hair up into two pig tails so that we could feel more like school kids and more childish. We all think that this helped us a lot because our hair wasn't coming into our face when it was down and also it made us feel like our character which then makes it easier to portray to the audience. It made us feel not like ourselves and as though we were an actual school kid.
Near the end of the lesson, my group went into the other room to watch back the video we had recorded of us rehearsing the number. Whilst we was all watching it we all said that we wasn't putting all our energy into it and we all knew we could do so much better. I knew personally that my characterisation was poor and that i still need to work on that a lot. To improve this i think that i need to make all my movements bigger and bold and have more facial expressions.After we had watched the video a couple of times we sat and discussed what we thought would be the best costumes. We all said that we should wear black school skirts and a white blouse as we think this portrays school children. We said for the younger children they should wear everything neatly and have their hair in two bunches. For the older children, we all said we should make the uniform look scruffy and as though we didn't care about it. We also said that our hair should be in high ponytails as this is slightly more grown up.
My target for next lesson is to focus more on the singing side of the piece as i now feel confident in the dance and choreography element of it. I feel as though for some sections of the song we go out of tune which then make the harmonies sound bad. Furthermore, in the section which begins "You listen hear my dear" we always all speed up on that to much and we finish that verse before we are supposed to and you can really tell. Next lesson i think that the whole group should work on this so we can become stronger in it.
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