Planning & Preparing | Lesson 1

Before using your vocal chords to sing and perform, it is vital that you warm up first to prepare your voice. If you fail to do so, your voice could get hurt and you won't be able to perform to the best of your ability.

 

We were given the task to create a video in which we present several warm up exercises and guide the audience through them. These exercises must be useful and the instructions must be easy to follow, so the public can use the video to help them warm up.

 

Today, we started planning our video, and the different warm up exercises we could include in it. Amelia and I are working as a pair to create this video as we feel having two people instruct the warm ups will show that they are suitable for a variety of different vocal types. We decided we would use YouTube as a source for our exercises, and some of the books that are available to us. Using these two media types as sources will help us come up with the most effective warm ups to show in our video.

 

Firstly, Amelia read the book we chose and I watched some YouTube videos in search for some useful warm up exercises. After 5 minutes of searching we found a few videos, and we learnt a few techniques from the book that were quite useful. We decided to try out some of the videos we found as we knew if we found the warm up effective other people would as well. When trying out some of the exercises we found, we agreed that they were effective, so we wanted to use that warm up, but interpret it to fit our style of voices.

 

Secondly, we found some paper and started writing a script for the video. We decided to write a script with a basic outline of each warm up as we wanted to be prepared and we didn't think improvising would be professional. We wrote down each of the different warm ups we are going to include in the video to help us write the script.

 

Watching and following the different YouTube videos we found influenced us when creating our own warm ups, and also it helped us have an idea of how to structure our video and how to make it entertaining to watch.

 

Here are some of the videos we used to help us when creating our own vocal warm up exercises:

 

 

 

 

In the next two lessons we are going to finish creating useful exercises, finish writing the script of the video, and film the actual video. If we get the video filmed by the third lesson, it means we can get the video edited quickly and get it completed soon.