Our group was inspired by a number of ideas, either from watching the musical "West Side Story", or from other songs that were related on a specific theme. Eventually, we decided on Alex's musical idea, which followed a specific theme which was 'kindness'.
Even though I wasn't the main scriptwriter, and I was in charge of the sound production, I still helped contribute towards the writing of the script. We followed Alex's plan for the plot of the story, and our script was basically based off from that. We also went online and searched for some inspiration for some of the songs and the choreography that we could use as part of our musical. Erica found a video (as seen below) that inspired us. It gave me as the sound producer what sort of music I should be using/producing for the musical, and gave Erica some ideas as to what sort of choreography moves should be used.
While writing the script, we had to consider the setting for each scene, and the characters that were going to be present on that scene. Since we only had 2 main characters in our musical, it wasn't very hard to figure that out. We also had to think of the actions each character would do (such as walking, clapping hands, running), and what they would be doing during the scene.
We tried to be as efficient as we could with the work, so we split up roles for contributing to writing the script, so people wrote the dialogue, some people decided on the choreography, and some people wrote the lyrics for the songs we produced. Tiffany and I worked on the lyrics for the two songs, which were "Working Hard", and "Happiness".
Writing the lyrics for the song was challenging, because the syllables of each word had to match with the number of beats in the music. To add to the challenge and make the song sound even better, we could also make the lyrics rhyme.
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