Matilda- Tuesday 28th February 2017

Today is our last lesson before we perform our version of "School song" to an audience. We had a longer rehearsal today so we could all make sure we knew exactly what we was doing. In this lesson we also was running through our other songs which would be in the show but were not getting marked. I feel as though running through some of the older numbers which we have done makes me see how much I have progressed and allows me to see what new skills I have developed.

We began the lesson by warming up. We started with a physical warm up which would make us all feel energised and ready to perform the song. The first exercise made us concentrate really hard and it was to make us focus on our listening skills and not to watch what other people were doing. Then we began to warm up our voices. We focused on diction and pronunciation. We done this by singing things that were sort of tongue twisters to see if we could do it or not.
After warming up, we then began rehearsing. For the first hour and a half of the lesson we was working on School Song. The whole of my dance group decided that we wanted to rehearse in costume so we could get used to it and we could become more of our character. I felt comfortable in my costume. My costume was a white shirt, red tie, black school skirt and black trainers. I think that by all of the older children wearing black trainers it made us look more rebellious.
We had one problem this lesson which was that one of the younger children, Imogen, wasn't there which made it really hard for us all to rehearse. This made it difficult when it came to the black section as we all have to work together to ensure that the blocks are always where they should be. However, we all learnt to work round this for this lesson and we knew we still needed to rehearse as well as we could so we could have the best performance possible.
Whilst wearing my costume today, I felt as though I was more of a character and not just myself. I personally feel as though I have done a much better job today at showing the audience who my character is as I feel more rebellious and more like my character than I have in other rehearsals. This rehearsal, I felt as a whole group that we had pulled it together really well and we put a lot of energy into it and we all done the best that we could with one person missing

My target for this lesson was to run through the song as many times as possible so I knew it really well and so I could focus on my characterisation which I have. I feel as though todays lesson I have progressed a lot with characterisation and I fee more confident with performing it now I have that skill better.