unit 26/27

  Weaknesses  One of my weakness was in the song's harmony sections. It was difficult for me to isolate the middle area of each harmony, especially during ex-wives. When we had to sing the second portion of each chorus, I struggled to find the middle part of the three-part harmony and ended up in the high harmony. I will develop my harmonization skills by repeatedly singing my harmony, recording the harmonies given in class and listening to them to solidify them in my memory, and using sheet music to ensure I am singing in the correct key. Another big weakness for me was my confidence I feel in both shows I really lacked confidence, I feel I could have gave an a lot better performance if I where to believe in Myself a little more. Further weaknesses to improve on: - confidence   - clarity  Strengths  I think my main overall strength growth throughout this show was my development of my breath control. I think I really showed improvement in this area of skill as i...

  Monday 14th November  Today was a tech rehearsal which we all knew was mainly for the technicians to help them out to make sure all of the cues and lighting is correct for the actual show and to give them a full practice run. This also meant it was a very stop and start day so we didn’t really do a full run through, however it was very helpful for us to as it aloud is to keep going back and going over things in order to make them more precise each time as-well as learning our spacing and when and where we needed to be in the lighting. This rehearsal made me realize that I need to project more, especially in ex-wives. I feel that I need to make sure my breath control needs to be a lot stronger as I get breathy and off pitch while dancing during this number, although I do feel I have majorly improved on this since my first rehearsals. I also feel that I have improved on my breathe control and stamina during House of Holbein as I sounded a lot better after I had been practicing...

 Heart of stone flash mob-  In this flash mob it consists of Ella who is playing 'Jane Seymore' the queen who died during the natural courses of giving birth to her son singing her story to the audience which is supported by some of the ensemble dances and singers. The rest of the cast comes on towards the end in order to help support Ella with leading harmonies. This was a fun experience however it was very overwhelming and scary and there was loads of college people walking past and filming.  Video of flash mob- Get down flash mob- Although I don’t sing a lot in this as we only say words reacting to Rudi and the last verse I was a dancer and this was a very run choreography to perform. I personally felt uncomfortable during this flash mob as it’s not every day you dance around college like this in-front of a load of random people however it did give me a lot of confidence within this number, I was very worried at first as I worry a lot about what people think but after ...

  week 7  this is our last week of rehearsals before the show, during this week we were able to work in a lot more depth and go over all of the harmonies, this was great for For me as last week i struggles with the ex wives Harmonie but now i know it and i feel a lot more comfortable whilst performing.  We then done another full run through and i could feel how much i had improved for ex wives as i confidently sung the whole way through, same with the mega six i feel the run-through with Lois w as very helpful.

week 6  During this lesson we started of with a full run-through of all of the numbers including both dancing and singing. These rehearsals are very important as it helps us to build up our stamina for the real show so that we are ready , this is because it hard to sing whilst dancing especially if its a very fast and upbeat dance. Personally i feel that the main struggle for me is maintaining my breath throughout ex wives this is because of the dance break as is very fast and upbeat. The same goes for the house of Holbein as everything is very fast. This is something i need to work on as I will be able to give an a lot better performance if I'm able to keep up my stamina and strongly perform the whole way through. I  also need to proceed to work on my correct harmonies for ex-wives as I don't feel like I stick to the correct Harmonie as I tend to join in with the high Harmonie instead of the ...

  ex-wives - I personally feel that my singing in ex-wives has slightly improved in the recent 2 weeks this is because I have a better understanding of all of the harmonies in the song. One thing that I need to work on is my projection this happens to be my weakness in most of the songs, I need to have more confidence in myself. During the song ex-wives i struggle with the final Harmonie this is on the word "wives" this is something that I am currently working and improving on. Aswell as the final Harmonie I have been working on my pitching for this song I have been doing this by communicating with my peers and watching back our videos from the singing lesson.  I have been practicing these in my own time just so that i can feel more confident withing the song. after figuring out more ways on how to improve I have decided to do videos of me each week singing this song to show my improvement over the weeks. heart of stone during the 4th and 5th week we spent our time practicing...

  Rehearsal reflection  After knowing a little bit more about the songs I was able to go home and practice my harmonies a little bit more so that I could come bait more family with them so I could give my all during rehearsals, I feel that this was really beneficial for me and I don’t have a lot of confidence in my singing and this helps me to have some mor confidence during my lesson as I know what I was doing and my correct harmonies to everything. I feel like my singing in 'Ex-wives' has slightly improved in recent weeks, and that I am better understanding harmonies, however I feel that I still need to work on my projection as I start the song of powerful and then half way through I start to let myself down and down have as much passion which is also linked to my confidence when singing but I need to tell myself to forget about all of that and focus on myself not about what other people think. I also need to make sure I'm working on the final harmonies on the lyric '...

  Week 2 of rehearsals for six the musical- Ex Wives/Ex Wives Repertoire: This is the first song in which we learnt for the rehearsals which includes all the six wives, dancers and ensemble cast. As I am part of the ensemble there is only small chunks of this song that are repeated a couple of times which I have felt have been easy to learn and I feel as if I have got my harmonies sorted out, I just need to learn the words a little better as I get confused and sometimes sing some of the queen's lines like at the beginning only the queens are meant to say divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded and survived but I occasionally forget and say the words. Overall, I feel as if the cast as a whole has got all of our harmonies and lines almost perfected. However, we have now started learning the choreography for the song which is causing some people to only move and not sing. So, what we need to improve on is being able to perform the choreography as well as singing the lyrics in our...

  First rehearsal progress During the first week of six rehearsals, we spent Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th of September going over 5 main songs which included "Ex Wives", "Ex Wives Repertoire" " Heart of Stone" "Don't Lose Your Head" and "No Way".  Over the past two weeks we have started learning and refining the first song in the show ' Ex Wives' as a class, we have to master singing and dancing at the same time as the show is a musical and needs to be as effective as possible. As a class we definitely have to work on keeping our projection consistent while singing as well as our timing together. we also have to really start refining the words to make this easier for ourselves. I personally think we all connect as one when it comes to the dance aspects but when singing were in our own little separate groups of low, middle and high and seem to not work as hard together, I feel  we need to understand where the harmonies co...