Hello! So, our first ever assignment for CTS was Onomatopoeia which was basically us performing a song (a musical performance) with only our voices and daily objects we could easily find at home/ use daily. We had to create an instrument with our daily objects and had to make sure that the instruments we made had full function and made sense.
Well, we were first divided into 3 groups, group - A, B, and C! I was in group A. After that, we were then again divided into 3 different groups from our group A, B and C into units. I was in unit 3. We were given a song each by the lecturers and the song given for my group was "The Temptations - My Girl." I then formed a Whatsapp group to ease discussions when we all didn't meet up and also to plan the meet ups.
We had several meetings before the performance to decide on the extra songs, design of instruments, story line and singing of songs and incorperation of everything.
The musical performance ranged from 5-8 minutes long. We had to perform this on the 3rd of May at LT 21. We had around a month to do everything as this assignment was given on the 4th of April!
The main objective for this project is to enhance our creative thinking skills in order to create and build something that produced sound and could imitate any musical instrument there is. It really did help me think out of the box and also it did teach me how to be more organize and to prioritize my work well. Most of the marks went to our creativity, originality and usage and also how well the instrument was played as it is the main objetive for this experiment.
Anyway, here are some pictures taken from the meetings we had!
First ever official meeting at Starbucks!
We were basically searching songs to add on and listening to the other song to get ideas on how the performance would be like :)
We then decided to move out so that we could sing our songs!
We also had discussions in class rooms.. :)
As well as balconies!
Dan was like our director as he had experience with performing on stage and drama and stuff :)
This was when he taught us how to project our voices.
We also had practices at the Lecture Theatre during the weekend!
Process of making my poster..
Ideas and stuff!
Walking to the library for discussionssss
These pictures were taken the day before our performance! It was all practice practice and practice!
Stressed out moment haha
We received feedback from people as well and asked for their opinions in order to improve.
I was also the MC together with Preston!
All in all, it was a really good experience although it was really stressful at times, it has taught me to divide and organize my time better and stuff. It was important to remember to have fun in what we do and to make the best out of everything and to also give it our all. We really enjoyed ourselves and the performances by other people. We all definitely bonded and became more open to ideas. Some of us got over stage fright, and some of us who have never sung before managed to sing for the first time.
It was definitely fun doing this project!
And at last! The video :)
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