12/02/15

Today we were mainly focusing on our group recording pieces and our solo recording pieces.

We did record our group piece last week but we recorded it on the wrong microphone so we have to record it again today and work on our solo pieces. We rehearsed our Robin Hood piece a couple of times before going in to record it. During the recording we decided to add an introduction, just saying what the piece was called and who was in it. I did this as the group thought that my voice was clear enough so that it could be understood. I think that this recording went a lot better that the first one did, after listening to it back it was a lot louder and clearer.

I then went to work independently on my solo piece; The Tale of the Three Brothers from The Tales of Beedle the Bard (from the Harry Potter Franchise). I chose this a few week ago but before settling on this piece I was going to read a few pages from the first Harry Potter book; Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. I decided to change it, however, because after thinking about it more I thought that The Tale of the Three Brothers would be more interesting to the listener, I also thought this because I really like the story and thought it would be really fun to do. For the past few weeks I have been rehearsing at home, just reading though it and trying out different ways to read it. To help me figure out what was best I decided to watch the scene in the film with the story and read that chapter of the book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). In both it is read by Hermione Granger so, after experimenting different ways to say it, I settled on imitating her voice as best I could, both tone and accent.

Due to mistakes when reading it, it took 5 times to get it right. The mistakes included; missing out or skipping words, stuttering, speaking to fast, to long of a pause etc. I think that once I had finished the recording I did pretty well, even though during it I was pretty nervous I was going to mess up again. Also, while recording, I think I slipped up a couple of times but nothing very obvious like the times before. I shall post a recording of this for you to listen to shortly.