Since our last Wednesday meeting on "Aladdin" we have ran through the play (it taking three after school meetings) and found costumes and props for our characters and scenes .
I have begun to work on music, changing the melodies for songs that have been written for the play and finding songs for other scenes which will be needed for the pantomime. Hugh Seckington and I are managing the music for the pantomime and we have already found various songs and plotted out where to put them and the effects which we will have to use on them to make them fit in with the pantomime. We have gone to Ryan Lee (who is in charge of sound effects for the pantomime) and told him what parts we needed sound effects on and what they would have to be.
We have also begun to sort out a time schedule for when we will teach the actors the lyrics to the songs which they will have to sing on stage, during the performance. We have started recording our work on a software on the Apple Mac's called "Garageband" in the music room at our school. We decided to change the melodies for the songs that were given along with the script (originally written by Stuart Ardern) as when we ran through it with Ben Knight (as he can read music and Hugh cannot) I found it hard to sing it as there were so many flats and sharps among the songs that it was near impossible to sing. Ben also found it very hard to play the music on the keyboard so we altered and changed it to make it easier.
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