Week beginning: Monday 21st April 2014
Unfortunately due to the Easter Break, Perry and I had missed a fair few rehearsals slots so this week we knew we had to nail down on ensuring that we were comfortable with the song and start working on our interpretation and staging of our duet.
We decided to use various week days, this week to ensure that we had learnt the song accurately and in detail. Perry and I felt it was appropriate to ask one of our friends and someone who has already done this project from last year, James D. Fawcett, to sit in and give us some feedback so we know what to develop and improve for the assessment.
I felt that asking James was a useful tool to improve and to gain someone else's opinion, I was also comfortable with James giving feedback which was useful and thoughtful.
When we performed the song I felt that I was far more confident and was able to remember the words, now that I didn't have to rely on the lyric sheet I could focus more on my singing rather than what word came next. Whilst performing I felt that Perry was also far more confident and this allowed the song to sound far more stronger than it has done before.
There were various parts of the song that Perry and I would need to work on to ensure it was up to a performance standard, but, overall, I felt that we had performed a good job and we had accomplished the best we could for the rehearsals we've had.
James suggested that we added harmonies to our song to get a more textured feel. He also wanted us to perform it with the full characterisation but unfortunately, Perry and I hadn't gone through the staging of the song just yet.
Perry and I weren't initially sure on what harmonies to add so we asked a fellow classmate to assist us.
Susie offered to add a harmony in the part:
"Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know."
And:
"the reason I hold on...
...'cause I need this hole gone"
In these parts, I would sing an octave higher to Perry, it was extremely hard for me to get the tune right but once I had accomplished this the song was much more textured and added a nice effect to the song.
So that I could practise the harmony, I recorded it on my phone so that in the next few weeks I can familiarise myself with it as much as possible.
I felt that the Easter holidays has meant that we started off struggling to get back into the flow of the song but once we had it was much easier to perform. Having James help us was great because it gave us an idea of what to develop in the song.
James did want to see us perform it using the characteristics but unfortunately we haven't got that far yet, I feel like now we are confident with the song it's time to finalise the characteristic and blocking of the song so we have an overall rounded performance.
This week there wasn't much emotion added to the song but I feel this will occur when we're adding the staging and characteristics to the song. So far I've really enjoyed working with Perry as we're both artistically and creatively in-sync and share the same passion for producing an interesting performance.
We asked for the opinion of someone else to gain a wider knowledge of how we could develop on the song and made progress.
Characterisation and staging needs to be completed so the performance is at the standard we want it to be.
Focus on the overall performance of the piece and polish it for the assessment.
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