Matilda- Monday 27th February 2017

Today was our music lesson. To begin the lesson we started to warm up our voices and our bodies. We began warming our bodies up by doing small head rolls and small ankle circles. The small ankle circles were to ensure that we had strong ankles so that we could have a good stance and posture. Then we began to warm up our voices. We done many different warm up which would help us with singing School song. We worked a lot on diction because we knew that the song is fast and we needed to pronounce all of our words properly. We wanted to make sure that we wouldn't strain our voices throughout the lesson and keep the warm all the time. 
After fully warming up we began rehearsing through the song. My group decide we wanted to just keep running through the number so that we could make everything sharp and precise. All of our group today rehearsed with ties so we could get use to them so we could get use to them and we could see how we could use them throughout the number. We figured out that whilst we was in the section when we are bullying the younger children we could pull their ties about and make them look scruffier like the older children. Whilst wearing the ties i think that we all felt more in character and we could work on building up our characters more. Today, i wanted to work on my character more and i feel with using the ties and using them effectively with the younger children i could get more in character. 

After we had talked about costumes a bit more we decided we need to work on the song and keep running through it.  The first time we ran through it i felt as though i personally didn't put as much energy in it as i could off and i could have been more in my character. After this we decided to run through it with out the music so we could sort some sections out. We all knew we should run through the ending a few times without the music because we had only finished that part on Friday so we needed to go through it so that everyone knew it well and could show their character whilst doing it. Whilst rehearsing some people were becoming out of breath quickly which meant the singing was lacking. From previous experience in performing i knew how to breathe whilst singing and dancing at the same time so i knew where i had to breathe so i didn't get out of breathe quickly and i could stay in time with the music. As other members of the group were struggling we decided that we should go through it and decide where to breathe so that everyone could keep the energy up throughout the whole number. We got close to the end of the lesson so we decide to just run through the number as many times as we could. 

My target for this lesson was to work on my characterisation and i felt like i have worked on it quite a lot and i think that i have become a lot stronger in my character. My target for next lesson is to keep rehearsing the number and to become fully confident with the whole song.