This was to be our final rehearsal before the performance on 29th April. I was confident with what Chess was doing but made Ellie come to university for an hour so we could work on her diction and stage voice.
At first I recorded her normally saying the lines and then I played it back to her. This way she spotted for herself what we meant about losing the end of her lines and how soft her voice was.
I asked her if she had ever done singing lessons before and she said that she had, therefore I told her to use her diaphragm to help support her voice when she is performing. We did a few breathing exercises to get her working her diaphragm and then I asked her to warm her face up with stretches. Through this process I could immediately see how telling her to use her diaphragm to project had helped and I made her over enunciate her words so that the ends of them were not lost.
I filmed her once again and it was amazing how in just half an hour she had changed her diction and tone completely. It was then that I noticed we had to have a vocal warm up before both of them perform. Therefore I said that I wanted them to be both in an hour before the performances started to have a warm up and run the scene through a few times.
I made sure that both Ellie and Chess were confident in what they were doing as we were not going to be able to rehearse again all together until the day.
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