The minutes discuss planning for an upcoming school musical. The group reviewed and discussed several scenes, noting places where character relationships or dialog could be improved. They were confused by a plot point in one scene. Due to time constraints, the group decided to hold auditions for just the Creative & Media team instead of the whole school. Actions were agreed upon to edit scenes and characters based on the discussion.

1. Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Wednesday 16th November 2011 – Period 3 – A101
Participants – Marie, Nazish, George, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, Khatra, Michael,
Parnyan, Rajan and Zahra
Absent –
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Discussed our opinions so far on the scenes we’ve read.
Discussed how we could create tension and a more of an intense relationship
between Carla and Nicole, in scene 3.
Zahra – Scene 4 – finds the character Nicole, has changed dramatically, from
bad/rude to friendly. This change is very quick.
Sara – summarized scene 4, to re-cap what happens in the scene and how Nicole
suddenly opens up to Yasmine.
Nazish – Slightly disagrees with Sara and Zahra. Feels Nicole and Yasmine need to
open up in scene 4 as the next scene that has Nicole and Yasmine together, is in
scene 6. In scene 6, both of them talk to each other about how they got in the
prison, so they need to be friendly.
Discussed how we could change the dialogues in scene 4 to stop Nicole from
becoming overly friendly. Possibly create a situation where Nicole is forced
to/accidently open/s up to Yasmine.
Carried on reading the script, from scene 9. Same people reading the same
characters. Also gave feedback after reading each scene.
Sara – Scene 10 – feels there are not enough dialogues in the scene. All the
dialogues in the scene are very quick and short.
Majority of the people in the team – confused about the idea of Nicole telling the
truth to Yasmine first, and then straight away telling her it was just a joke.
Discussed about problems. According to our production schedule, we are meant
to be holding auditions for the whole school, next week on Monday, which is not
possible because of the little time left and lack of preparation for the auditions.
Discussed about which day, next week, we could hold the whole school auditions.
Action agreed By whom
1. Change dialogues in scene 3, between Carla and Nicole so that
it’s different to the dialogues between the inmates.
2. Tone down the relationship between Yasmine and Nicole in
scene 4. Change dialogues in scene 4 to show a gradual build-
up between Yasmine and Nicole and Nicole’s attitude, rather
than a quick change.
3. Change dialogues in scene 9, to show that Inmate 1’s and
Inmate 2 are specifically looking for Carla’s file, instead of just EVERYONE IN
looking through the files without any intentions. THE TEAM.
4. Show a negative relationship between Carla and Inmate 1 & 2,
before scene 9.
5. Add in more dialogues in scene 10.

2. 6. Adapt and edit scene 12. Make it a more of a sentimental
scene.
7. Change the structure a little bit of scene 15. Remove short
snippets.
8. Navina to research into - if personal possessions or which
specific things are allowed for prisoners to take in with them
into the prison.
9. George to find the original scene 12, written by Sara and Zahra
and add in the remaining dialogues from the scene, to the
script.
10. George (Director) and Nazish (Assistant Director) to work with
Ms Raz in the next lesson, to edit the script and add in the
lyrics.
11. Not holding the auditions for the whole school, next week on
Monday.
12. Holding auditions for the Creative & Media team, on Friday’s
lesson, period 5.
13. Zahra to discuss with Nazish, George and Ms Bahra on
deciding on who should play which character.