Today we started looking at ways to approach Shakespeare's way of writing. Siou mentioned the rhythm of his writing and said how it had a slight beat to it. When Siou said this, it helped me with how to say it and it stopped me from saying the words too quickly or too slowly. 

The exercise is called "tap-rhythm". We were given a piece from Romeo and Juliet, and we would count the beats, and when we counted five we would either tap on the floor or skip, as we said this line. This really helped me, as I said before, it gave me a great idea of how fast/slow I should be saying the line. 

We also played a game with the Romeo and Juliet speech, we had one person reading the speech and while they're doing that the rest of the class would be around them getting really close and pushing them slightly trying to put the person reading off. However, the person reading had the responsibility to continue reading and trying to get the rest of the classes attention. 

When we did this, I was only ever the person pushing, I never got to read. However I did observe the people who did read. When we first started pushing them about the people who were readings response was initially laughter, which to me showed that they were feeling incredibly outnumbered and maybe even intimidated. After a while of them still reading and is still pushing, I think they might have started to get really agitated by us, which is understandable.

When I was pushing them about with the rest of the class, I felt quite mean doing it and thought to myself "I would not like to be in their position right now", it felt like I was hanging up on them and o felt like a bully! I could hear what they were saying properly because their breathe kept goingn from getting shoved about.

Why is it important to warm your voice up? 

. You are able to speak louder and clearer without any stain in your throat.

. You can have a wider range pitch.

. You have more consistency with your voice.

What are the 3 areas in vocal warm up? 

. Breathe

. Posture

. Tension release