Variety - further thoughts on acappella act

In our second lesson we all came back together and decided that doing a mashup of 2000 songs may be a little difficult as the ones we had chosen were very different from each other and would be slightly difficult to put together.

We then brainstormed ideas of what we could do as an a Capella group. We did some more research on a Capella singers and what kind of things they tended to sing. We found out that a lot of a Capella groups started with some sort of Disney mashup. As it was a simple structure and many people know the tune and lyrics of Disney songs. Therefore we thought it would be a viable choice considering we have limited time to devise a performance.

We watched many videos of many different groups doing Disney mashups and decided which songs we wanted to include in our performance.

We decided upon a running order of songs and began to structure. For example, writing down what each of us could do. I.e. whether we were soprano or alto singers and whether we felt strongest singing harmonies or main melodies etc.

We decided that we would re-create the first Disney medley shown and add our own twists for example we would create our own version of the percussive lines in order to make it different and cater for the fact there are only three of us and its live singing. I suggested we make our own medley from scratch in order to make it unique for our group but eventually we all decided that, we didn't have enough time to create to the standard of these other ones so we would simply cover the Disney medley above.

We worked out harmonies and starting points on the piano by matching pitches so that our harmonies would work nicely together and were musically correct.

I thought for lighting we could have different colours for different songs. In order to create the atmosphere of that Disney movie/song to make it feel more realistic and make it far more enjoyable to perform. For example, when we sing 'Circle of Life' have green lights to represent the jungle.