1. Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Wednesday 2nd November 2011
Meeting 1 – Period 3 – A136
Meeting 2 – Lunch – Media Suite
Meeting 3 – After school – Media Suite
Participants – Meeting 1 – Marie, Nazish, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, George, Parnyan,
Rajan and Zahra
Meeting 2 – Nazish, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, George, Parnyan and
Zahra
Meeting 3 – Nazish, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, George, Parnyan and
Zahra
Absent – Meeting 1 – Michael and Khatra
Meeting 2 – Michael, Khatra, Marie and Rajan
Meeting 3 – Michael, Khatra, Marie and Rajan
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed in Meeting 1
Briefly gone through each and every person’s idea(s) for the main plot /the sub
plot for our musical.
Points discussed in Meeting 2
Decided which elements we could use from whose ideas and how we could also
develop them.
Discussed and decided which ideas could be used for our main plot.
Points discussed in Meeting 3
Read the final plot.
Briefly went through the plot.
George (Director), Nazish (Assistant Director) and Navina (Production Manager) –
Wanted to create new names for the characters identified so far, to stop
confusion with the actual names of people and their character in the YMT
workshop.
Discussed about the characters and their names.
How to break down scenes.
Action agreed in Meeting 1 By whom
1. Every member of the team should come back at lunchtime Majority of the
and be present in the second meeting to finalise the main people in the team.
plot.
Action agreed in Meeting 2
1. The main plot of our performance would be based on the Majority of the
two characters, Carla and Nicole, who drift apart after people in the team.
entering the prison.
Action agreed in Meeting 3
1. The main plot – Carla and Nicole are best friends. One day, Majority of the
Carla finds out that her boyfriend – Zack, has been cheating people in the team.
on her with another girl called Kate. Carla holds Kate
responsible for trapping her boyfriend. Carla is furious and
reaches Nicole’s house to tell her about it. She tells Nicole
2. that she wants to teach Kate a lesson and wants Nicole to
help her in this. Nicole tries to stop her from doing any
harm to Kate as she doesn’t want her to get in trouble.
Carla agrees and promises that they will only scare her,
nothing more. However, Carla has already made a plan in
head, to physically hurt Kate. Both, Carla and Nicole set out
the house to hunt down Kate. They find her in a park and
without wasting any time, they both start to have a go at
Kate. Soon the verbal abuse turns into a physical fight,
where Carla and Nicole are punching and kicking Kate.
When suddenly, Carla pulls out a knife out of her pocket
and stabs Kate in the stomach. Nicole is shocked at seeing
this and feels betrayed by Carla. Soon the police arrives and
arrests both the girls, sentencing Carla to seven years for
stabbing and Nicole, to five years for GBH and assisting a
stabbing. (Kate survives.)
2. New names for existing characters: George, Nazish and
Megan – Stacey Navina
Peace – Nicole
The Governor – Zoe
Guard 1 – John
Guard 2 – Arthur
Guard 3 – Joe
Guard 4 – Taylor
Carla – Carla
3. George, Nazish and Navina to start creating scenes. Come
up with at least 12 scene break-downs, to then be able to George
assign the scenes to each person in the team, next lesson.
