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.
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Thursday 3rd November 2011 – Period 4 – A101
Participants – Marie, Nazish, George, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, Khatra, Michael,
Parnyan, Rajan and Zahra
Absent –
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Re-capped on the main plot and the storyline.
Sara – Feels to change few of the names of the characters as they are not multi-
cultural names.

3. Discussed about the beginning of the plot.
Discussed about the new names of the characters.
George - Explained and went over each scene break down - what he wanted to
see in the scene, which characters are involved, what’s their personality is like, the
main storyline of the scene, the setting of the scene.
George – Which scene should be given to who, in the team, to write a script,
according to their ability and preferences.
Sathma – Wanted to know where roughly each song would be placed within the
script and its content.
Action agreed By whom
1. To add in at least one multi-cultural name.
2. To change the new names of the existing characters:
The Governor from Zoe to Ms Sullivan.
Guard 1 from John to Mr. Mitchell Watson.
Character A from Stacey to Carla
Guard 2 from Arthur to Mr. Rajan Chandra.
Innocent newbie from Carla to Yasmine.
3. Names for new characters: EVERYONE IN
Name for the victim – Kate. THE TEAM.
Name for Yasmine’s boyfriend – Zack.
4. Which scenes should be written by:
Scene 1 - Scene 2 – Scene 3 - Scene 4 - Scene 5 -
Marie Logan Sathma Navina Nazish
Scene 6 - Scene 7 - Scene 8 - Scene 9 - Scene 10 -
Michael Parnyan Sara Zahra Rajan
Scene 11 - Scene 12 – Scene 13 - Scene 14 – Scene 15 -
George Sara, Zahra Parnyan Logan & George
& George George
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Friday 4th November 2011 – Period 4 – A136
Participants – Marie, Nazish, George, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, Michael, Parnyan,
Rajan and Zahra
Absent – Khatra
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
When should all the 11 scripts, written by individuals (present today), be ready
and emailed to George by.
Went over the revised script break down and its summary, together.
Ensured everyone was clear and understood what to include in their scripts by

4. going through each scene break down with the person the scene was assigned to.
Discussed the new changes made by George and Nazish in each scene break down
to clarify any confusion.
Individually discussed any points/ problems in our own scene with George.
Action agreed By whom
1. Everyone in the team, including the two people who didn’t
finish their scripts – Michael and Parnyan, should complete George
their scripts for assigned scenes by period five. Individuals
allowed working on and editing their scripts at lunch and in
the first twenty minutes of period 5.
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Friday 11th November 2011 – Period 4 – A136
Participants – Marie, Nazish, Khatra, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, Michael, Parnyan,
Rajan and Zahra
Absent – George
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Checked how far Assistant Director – Nazish, has reached in re-editing the script.
Checked whether pairs, who worked on composing lyrics for scenes on Tuesday 8 th
November, have completed it and sent to Mr. Wasiq to be checked.
Discussed on the dates mentioned in our production schedule for certain tasks to
be started and completed.
Discussed on changing the dates for holding the auditions, due to lack of
preparation time.
Listed down and discussed tasks each person needs to do in the next lesson,
according to the tasks related to their individual roles.
Action agreed By whom
1. Assistant Director – Nazish to complete the whole script (the Nazish
editing, adding and remove bits) by next week, Monday 14 th
November.
2. Parnyan to re-send the lyrics for scene 15 to Mr. Wasiq or Sathma
Sathma by lunchtime.
3. Michael and Rajan to type up their composed lyrics for scene 4 Sathma
and email to Sathma by the end of the day.
4. Moving forward the date for holding auditions for the whole Everyone in the
school, on Monday 21st November. team
5. Spend the second hour in Creative & Media after school Everyone in the
session, to go over and read the whole script together. team

5. 6. Individual tasks, every person in the team has to do in the
next lesson:
Logan – Research into lighting. (What lights and colours Logan
would create which moods etc.)
Parnyan – Brainstorm ideas for set designs. Do at least Parnyan
2 drafts of drawings.
Nazish – Continue working on and editing the script. Nazish
Sara – Work on creating one routine-exercise. Sara
Zahra – Work along side Nazish and Navina to create Zahra
character profiles and also decide on dates for holding
auditions.
Marie – Start by creating a title for our musical. Marie
Khatra – Brainstorm/list props that might be needed. Khatra
Michael – Start creating drafts of costume designs for Michael
at least 2 characters.
Rajan – Get hold of all the lyrics from Sathma/Mr Rajan
Wasiq and start editing lyrics composing book.
Sathma
Sathma – Check if a music room is available to compose
music or develop melodies.
Navina
Navina – Complete any pending minutes and also
support Zahra in completing character profiles.
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date –Tuesday 15th November 2011 – Period 3 – B102
Participants – George, Logan, Sara, Navina, Sathma, Michael, Parnyan, Rajan, Zahra,
Khatra, Nazish and Marie
Absent –
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Progress of the script – complete.
Progress so far - which tasks have been completed.
Discussed which tasks still have to be done by the end of this week and by whom.
Action agreed By whom
1. Following people to send Navina their task list which contains Navina
all the tasks they need to do individually with each task’s
deadline: Sara, Nazish, Logan, Parnyan, Khatra, Marie and
George.
2. Who needs to complete which task(s) by the end of this week:
Task Who? Deadline
Complete character profiles – in Zahra Friday 18th
detail and in a presentable way. Nov Navina
Create a poster and a power point

6. which informs Cranford students Zahra
about the whole school auditions,
as well as persuading them to sign
up for the auditions.
Support Zahra in tasks related to Nazish, Friday 18th
auditions. George Nov
Make any changes in script that is Thursday Nazish, George
needed. 17th Nov
Complete all minutes. Navina Friday 18th
Support Zahra in tasks related to Nov Navina
auditions.
Create drafts of two costumes Michael Friday 18th
Nov Michael, Navina
each, for the key characters and
the guards.
Organize singing rehearsals. Sathma, Friday 18th
Sathma, Rajan,
Rajan Nov
Navina
3. Read the script as a group. Following people will read the
following characters in the script: George
o George – Joe & Stage directions
o Nazish – Nicole
o Navina – Andi
o Marie – Inmate 2 & Whitney
o Khatra – Inmate 1 & Newbie 2
o Sara – Carla
o Rajan – Mr Chandra & Newbie 2
o Logan – Mr Watson
o Sathma – Yasmine
o Parnyan – Mr Moorland
o Zahra – Ms Sullivan & Kate
o Michael – Mr Borris
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.

7. 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
5. Change dialogues in scene 3, between Carla and Nicole so that
it’s different to the dialogues between the inmates.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Show a negative relationship between Carla and Inmate 1 & 2,
before scene 9.
9. Add in more dialogues in scene 10.
10. Adapt and edit scene 12. Make it a more of a sentimental
scene.
11. Change the structure a little bit of scene 15. Remove short
snippets.
12. Navina to research into - if personal possessions or which
specific things are allowed for prisoners to take in with them
into the prison.
13. George to find the original scene 12, written by Sara and Zahra
and add in the remaining dialogues from the scene, to the
script.
14. George (Director) and Nazish (Assistant Director) to work with

8. Ms Raz in the next lesson, to edit the script and add in the
lyrics.
15. Not holding the auditions for the whole school, next week on
Monday.
16. Holding auditions for the Creative & Media team, on Friday’s
lesson, period 5.
17. Zahra to discuss with Nazish, George and Ms Bahra on
deciding on who should play which character.
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Thuday 17th November 2011 – Period 4 – A101
Participants – Sathma, Marie, Nazish, Khatra, George, Logan, Sara, Parnyan, Navina,
Michael and Rajan.
Absent – Zahra
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Discussed which individual needs to complete which task(s) by the end of this
hour.
Discussed on which day next week, after Monday, we could the auditions, as it’s
not possible to do it on Monday 21st partly due to lack of preparation.

9. Action agreed By whom
18. Following task(s) that need to be done by the end of today’s Navina
lesson and by whom:
Role Who? Task
Complete choreography for Sara
Choreographer Sara
scene 7.
Assistant Director & Nazish &
Re-draft scenes from 1 to 7. Nazish &George
Director George
Create a mood board and 1 set
Set Designer Parnyan Parnyan
design that shows a jail.
Take over some of Zahra’s
(Casting Director) tasks of
Production organising auditions – discuss Navina
Navina
Manager with Mrs Saroya and complete
which ever tasks that need to
be done ASAP.
Create a mood board that
shows props seen/needed in a
Prop Designer Khatra jail. Also work along side Khatra
Parnyan to ask which props are
needed in the set design.
Complete the 2 drafts of the
inmate’s costume design. Also Michael
Costume Designer Michael
come up with 4 more designs.
(coloured)
Create a poster for promoting
the auditions. Also draft and Marie
Marketing Manager Marie
design 1 poster for the overall
performance.
Complete melodies for Sathma
Music Composer Sathma
choreography.
Edit lyric book and songs with
Lyric Composer Rajan Rajan
the new changes made.
Create a table for lighting ideas.
Light Designer Logan Logan
19. Auditions for whole school will now be held on Thursday 24 th
Navina
November 2011, instead of Monday 21st November 2011.
Minutes of Meeting
Planning the Musical
Date – Friday 18th November 2011 – Period 4 – A136
Participants – Sathma, Marie, Nazish, Khatra, George, Logan, Sara, Parnyan, Navina,
Michael, Rajan and Zahra.

10. Absent –
Minutes taken by – Navina
Points discussed
Discussed about what we have to do (as a team) in the next lesson. Created a plan
for period 5.
Discussed on another day for the auditions to be held, as on Thursday, the concert
hall and teachers are not available.
Action agreed By whom
20. Follow the plan (below) in period 5:
Duration of
Time Task Lead by?
task
2:15 – 2:20 Group discussion of ideas 5 minutes Zahra
for casting. (whole team)
2:20 – 2:35 Dance rehearsal and 15 minutes Sara
audition. (whole team)
2:40 – 2:55 Distribution of 15 minutes George
scenes/dialogues to cast
and acting audition. EVERYONE IN
(whole team) THE TEAM.
3:00 – 3:15 Singing rehearsals and 15 minutes Sathma
audition. (whole team)
3:15 – 3:45 George, Nazish and 30 minutes George,
Zahra to discuss about Nazish
who should play which and
character. Zahra
21. Navina to be the timekeeper during all the tasks.
22. Change in the date for the audition. Now will be held next
week, on Wednesday 23rd November 2011.