Group assessment: 1

Group assessment

For our group assessment we had to create a 5 minute performance of two songs that had a running theme between them. The initially choose our songs we played through and sang a variety of songs to find one we felt we could work with well and completely change the sound of the song but keep it true to the origional. We eventually chose the song ''man in the mirror" by Micheal Jackson. We chose this song as it showcased each of our talents effectively and allowed us all to have a 'moment to shine' each within the song. For this song we decided to do a vocal arranger with guitar accompaniment so we could use the different timbres of each voice to it's strengths to create an origional blend for this song and for guitar it allowed him to show his playing skills as he was free to add little ornaments where he or we felt needed  to add more dimension and interest to the song.

When adding and finding harmonies for the vocals, it took time as we tried to make them more interesting and not too simple to make it interesting for the audience and to show how well we could harmonise as a group and how well we could put the harmonies together into the peice. We spent a lot of time working on these harmonies as we needed it to be very tight and together for it to give the intended sound to the audience, if one note was out of tune or one rhythmical element such as a "ba ba" was off it wouldn't sound clean or nice to the ear so it was essential to nail these. Another aspect which we added into the piece to mix it up and change it from the origional was to add a rap section instead of the origional verse which would have the same message and meaning as the origional verse. We thought that by adding a rap into it would make it our piece instead of just an arrangement of Micheal jackson's song. It also allowed one of our group members to show complete versatility from what she has been trained on which was great to show in our assessment.

"I've been a victim of a selfish kinda love that's left me scarred and it is time that I realise we are falling apart. That there are some with no home and I guess I've always known that it's not only me pretending their not alone. and I'm seeing all around me that people are getting scared. People are getting scared of people who said they cared. And I'm seeing on the news that things just ain't right. love turned into hate and hate turned into fight"