Week1:
This week we started to introduce the beginning of Matilda through researching and understanding the characters we were playing in the song we are performing, which is School Song. My favourite thing about this song is that it has a lot of characters which are quite similar, with the little kids and the big kids. My preferred a character choice is the little kids because I feel I have quite a high voice to hit the high notes for the little kids and I like the way they portray the characters as the little kids.

At the beginning of the week, we started learning the words for the song School Song but before we did that we had to make sure our voices were prepared to sing the song. The first thing we did was sing through going up the scale, which helped us hold notes for long amounts of time and widen the vocal range. After singing in the scale, we practiced saying words with alliteration in it which helps us when we are singing my because it helps us to annunciate when we sing the song because the song is very fast and a lot of words are close together. We then decided to work on the song in which we separated into our performing groups and began to separate into the different parts and words that are said by the characters.

Later on in the week we started to learn the dance steps for the dance in the song School Song but we had to make sure we warmed up and stretched before doing we started. First we had to make sure our joints were mobilized and that the blood was pumping round the body. Firstly, we all the learnt the moves for the big kids dance and then we learnt what the little kids have to do while they dance. I quite like the little kids but because there is more acting than dancing in the section we have learnt so far and I feel this is a very big strength of mine. It was quite easy to pick up and everyone seemed to get it just as fast.

At the end of the week, we practiced the dance and made it very clean so that when we decided, we could move on to the next part of the dance next week. I also researched the musical Matilda so that I could wrap my head round the character I wanted to portray. I watched many videos of the performers in the musical and think that they are portraying the little kids as very innocent which makes Matilda seem like a much bigger character compared to them because she is very clever and the opposite of the other little kids. 

Overall, I believe this week was very good because we learnt a lot of new move and knowledge for the School Song in Matilda. Although I would like to learn a lot more about the characters and how they are presented individually. My short term target for next week is to learn all the lyrics for "School Song" in order to be up to date with the class. My long term target is to work on projection.

This week we performed our musical theatre piece (wilkkomen from the musical Cabaret) which was an amazing experience because we were able to interprete the character of the mcee. The performance went very well and I felt that I performed to the best of my ability. I felt my accent was exactly how a German would be, in the future this lesson will help me because it means I will be able to play a German in any future musicals I do. I also did well with the dance move because they fitted perfectly with how I portrayed the character and made the performance more exciting. Although I think I need to work on my pronouniation of the word wilkkomen because I could not pronounce it as well as I thought. I also need to work on maintaining the character I was portraying because at times I lost the character as I was worrying about the next move. In the future I will work on my ability of pronouncing words by reciting poems with alliteration.