R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

As a group we have allocated one intense week of training for us where we will be rehearsing in both the studio and any other places we can (ie. media block)

The picture on the right shows the rehearsal schedule for the studio, the yellow boxes are the times where the studio was specifically allocated for us to rehearse in and test out things like lighting as well.






Before our rehearsal week we made a list of all the things that we felt needed to be rehearsed:

• Dance routine will be our main priority, we need to get this on lockdown and make sure everyone in the group is confident and knows the routine well.
• Our individual parts and figure out what we're going to do facially and also with our movements for the individual parts of the song
• Rehearse with the guys and give them a run down of what we need from them and it'll be good for them to rehearse it too
• Try out some lighting set ups and save them to the memory on the monitor so that when we're actually shooting setting up will be a lot easier
• Rehearse lip-syncing properly to the song

The week before our main rehearsal week we watched a few YouTube videos where they dance to certain songs to get inspiration for our dance moves. We also contacted Jasmine, who was also our performance coach during our preliminary task, to help us come up with  a dance routine for the chorus of our song, since none of us were professional dancers. 

This is one of the videos we watched and we also filmed Jasmine's routine and then we tried to come up with a routine ourselves which incorporated all aspects in it.  (ADD JASMINES ROUTINE) 

Here is a video of one of our first ever rehearsals in the studio. As you can tell, it wasn't very good and we realised that this isn't going to be as easy as we initially thought. It was hard to keep in time with everyone and also look good whilst dancing. This was a huge deal and we realised just how much work had to be done.

Here is a video from a few days later in the rehearsal week. It's a little snippet of Gift and I performing part of the chorus. Again, it's not very polished or perfect yet but we could tell that we were improving and that was making us very happy. (ADD VIDEO)

Here we were testing out lighting for both the red silhouette shot and also the red and white spotlight shot. 

This is a picture of one of our rehearsal sessions with the guys where we were practising poses and also posture.

Organising a rehearsal week was really beneficial for us because we all practised so hard and compared to the beginning of the rehearsal week, we have come a long way with our dance routine. It also helped in terms of practising with the equipment and lighting as well. We learnt how to properly work the camera and also how to properly operate the lighting desk to get our desired lighting and save it as a memory.