Must Be The Music!

Last week I went to watch the finals of Must Be The Music at Wembley Arena. I thought it was amazing! I went with my Mum, my friend Charlotte and my brother and his friend. The whole arena was filled and the atmosphere was so good. The judging panel was Dizzee Rascal, Jamie Cunning, Sharleen Spiteri and it was presented by Fearne Cotton. A live performance was given by all the judges and my favourite was definitely Dizzee Rascal when he sang ‘Bonkers’. The crowd was going mad and everyone was jumping up and down. Sharleen’s performance was really good as well and all the crowd were on their feet for her.  

All the acts that got into the final were really good but none of them really stood out as amazing to me. The girl that won had a lovely singing voice and her songs were really good but my favourite was the band ‘The Pictures’. In was such a good night and I’d definitely go and see a live TV show again.

Heartbeat

This week in our practical lessons this week we developed our Heartbeat dance. We had to put a story and emotion in to it. We had to keep Miss Dolans dance but we could add our own bits into it. I was in a group with Myriam and Kelly and we had the idea of doing a broken family with the parents arguing and the child not knowing what to do. It fitted quite well with Miss Dolans dance as we could change some of the directs of the moves to some friction between the two parents and the child being caught up in the middle. Myriam was the child and Me and Kelly were the parents. When there were strong sharp movements me and Kelly turned to each other to saw we were getting angry and Myriam stood in the middle. Some of the moves we changed the direction so me and Kelly were going opposit ways and Myriam didn't know which way to go. It worked well but we still need to improve it and make it flow more.

At the beginning of the week we watched a DVD by DV8 Dance. I thought it was amazing the way it was put together and the way they put the story across but yet again a bit strange. I think it was very clever the way they thought of all the ideas and put it together and created this piece. It was about men and how they don't show their emotions much and when they do other men don't accept them. It was set in a pub and they were all drinking beer and then they went outside and a football was introduced all these things are associated with men. I think it will be fun to try and do DV8 style dancing, it's different and be a good experience.

This week we started our mood boards in costume design. We had a A3 piece of paper and we started cutting out pictures from magazines that fitted our colour scheme. My colours are Red, Black and Gold.

Our First Practical Lessons!

This week we had our first practical lessons, i really enjoyed them both. We learnt a comtempory dance to heartbeat. I love comtempory dance because I love ballet and have been doing it for years but its like ballet with a twist so it different and you can really experament with your moves. I really enjoyed learning the dance and i found it easy to pick up. i liked the sharp confusing move we did in the middle.
With Miss Hearn in costume design we were experimenting with colours. We were making colour charts and seeing hows many different shades we could get out of one colour. We did this using water colours.  

Induction week to BTEC Performing Arts

I have really enjoyed our induction week to BTEC Performing Arts. I think i'm going to really enjoy this course.


Monday 6th September-  This was our first lesson of BTEC Performing Arts and Miss Dolan just talked us through the course and what we will be doing over the next two years. We got given our handbook and handouts we needed to put in our folders. We meet everyone who was taking the course and its a nice group of girls some i know very well but others i don't so it will be nice getting to know them and working together.


Tuesday 7th September- On tuesday we had a double lesson but one was for costume design. In this lesson we met Miss Hearn and she talked us through the costume part of the course. i think this is the part i'm going to find most challenging becuase i'm not the best at designing and making. We talked about what colours we wanted to use for our historical costumes and i choose, red, black and gold. We got our first bit of homework and got to ask any questions about the course. In the second lesson we were in a computer room and we created our blogs.


Wednesday 8th September- In this lesson we went down to the media room and learnt how to mix sound tracks together. I was in a group with Myriam, Danielle and Ellie. We didn't do it very well but you need a lot of practise and time to make it perfect. It was fun doing it and i would definitly like to try and do it again.