27th February Dance

We started off this lesson by going through the warm up sequence that helps with various physical parts of our dance.

We then learnt a short sequence that we will performing when we take part in the year 13s performance of Cats. We learnt the sequence together as a group, before splitting into our two groups of Journalists and Paparazzi. I am in the paps group and so we started to think about ways that we could incorporate having cameras into routine. In our groups we then looked at making tableau's to show that we were paps. We would do these in the begginig of the song before the sequence we learnt. We wanted to use levels in our tableaux so we went in a diagonal line in height order for our first, and then reversed this oder for out next. We then had a 'fight' tableaux to show the violent world of paps and journalist. We felt that we wanted to do something that looked really good so we put in a lift. We struggled with getting Livvy onto my shoulder, but we struggled even more getting her off... with Kat and Emily's help we found the easiest and safest way to get her off so we were really happy with what we did this lesson. Next lesson we will look at ways of altering the routine to match our Paparazzi characters.

27th February Singing

In this lesson we worked in groups on presentations regarding the anatomy of the voice. My group consisted of myself, Holly Hos, Izzy and Max.
We all researched different parts of the anatomy, mainly the vocal chords and the diaphragm. I was happy with our presentation and I felt that I learnt more about the anatomy than I had earlier on in the year.

I have attached a link to our presentation and photos of our posters.



*HOW DO I ATTACH A LINK TO THE POWERPOINT?!?!*

Lesson 3rd March

In this lesson we started to block the Brittany scene. In the first part of this scene my character doesn't have many lines, but I found this lesson useful in getting a feel for the pace of the scene as well as picturing some movement ideas that can be tried out in later rehearsals. There was one point towards the beginning of the scene where all of the characters do fall of of their chairs so I made a note in my script so that I remember when it is because it is not on the stage directions.

Lesson Analysis 5th March

In this lesson we finished blocking the Brittany scene. This scene is quite challenging because it involves the whole cast and there are lots of short lines so learning cue lines are very important.
We looked at the way we stand for a lot of this scene and as well as this, various movements and line delivery. One of the harder bits to block was the Biffer talking part because before this we don't really move on stage and at this point we have to remember where we all have to stand as well as when we have to say our lines.
Although it was tricky, I found that being off script helped because it can be easier to learn cue lines. I am still struggling with when some of my lines come in bit I think that rehearsing this more will sort this out.

Grease dance evaluation

Because my use of extension is my biggest weakness I have looked at different ways of improving this such as looking in the mirror whilst rehearsing  and recording rehearsals and watching them back as self assessment. By my last performance I want extension to be something I can put as a strength rather than a weakness. Using the mirrors will be very helpful in getting immediate extrinsic feedback.

Singing 6th March

In this lesson we looked into vocal techniques. We split into groups and all picked a vocal technique. Mine was range. We discussed as a group different exercises and wrote them down on this sheet.

After we had filled out the sheets, we got back into the class and a few of us shared our exersices. I shared mine with the class and we all did my exersice. It was really useful to see how it worked when it was done and I feel that this will help me with my vocal technique sheet.

Dance 6th March

In this lesson we carried on from our Cats routine we started last week. We started off by running through the sequence again so that everybody remembered it which was useful because over the week I had forgotten the order of some of the movements. After this we split into our two groups and went over the tableaux that we did in last weeks lesson. We used canon, fragmentation and retrograde to look at different ways we could alter the original routine. We altered the beginning section of the routine by facing each other and changing the levels that we used. This added a bit more to the routine and makes it a bit more exciting. We also added a lift into the routine, we struggled with finding the right way to lift up Amber and Livvy but once Kat helped us we could progress onto putting it together. I was really happy with the progress we made this lesson and we plan on altering the rest of the routine next week.