Building and staging a song to tell a story
I can use my voice and body to share how a character is feeling in a song.
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- Year 4
Building and staging a song to tell a story
I can use my voice and body to share how a character is feeling in a song.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
Lesson details
Key learning points
- We can develop our characters by showing our moods, feelings and ideas through our bodies and our voices
- We can create a thicker texture by singing in a round
- A round can be used to show two characters working well together and connecting more
- Where and how we stand and sing on stage can make the story more engaging and clearer for an audience
Keywords
Round - a song structure where multiple groups sing the same melody but start at different times
Texture - the combination of different layers of sounds
Staging (verb) - making decisions about creating a performance of our version of a story
Motivation - the reasons behind what a character might say or do to achieve their goal or get what they want
Common misconception
Singing the song is enough to help the audience follow a story because the story is in the lyrics.
Singing in character by understanding your character's motivation and how that might influence their actions helps bring the lyrics to life by singing and performing with our whole body, thinking about our posture and expression.
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