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Level 2 performing arts - week 3 🎬

This week I have learned the some more of the movements to Matilda the musicals ‘Revolting children’ and we are also trying to do the movements and singing to it as well.Before we dance or sing, we make sure to do warm ups so that we warm up our voice. Its important because it helps you to get physically prepared and also preventing injury. Similarly vocal warm ups also help you to sing and prevent injuries as well.

In relation to choreography, we were looking at stage placement. Stage positioning which is also referred to as stage blocking is the process of placing performers in a specific space. It is important that people don't bump into each other and  that the audience can see whats happening. I also started to look at blocking in my sketch with Oliver.

We also looked at 3 different versions of Revolting children from Matilda the musical so that we can get inspiration and ideas for our own performance.


As you can see in the video, this is how we chose to stage the choreography for our performance.

I also worked  on Say my name from Beetle juice the musical. Myself  and my duet partner both had a go at singing both roles, the reason for this is to see which way works best.

We spent a lesson looking at the importance of voice acting only. It is essential for actors to expand their vocal skills and express how those characters are feeling. Our task this lesson was to build our vocal skills by performing an improv scene without any acting and only using our voices. One of the things that i focused on was tone which is the emotional sound of the voice. As i was playing the mature uncle, i tried to create a sensible and mature tone. I also used emphasis which is stressing a particular word or phrase to establish its importance.




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