Nerd love

For this song we have set the plot around the cast not being their own characters (except from Harry.) Instead we all play a stereotypical ‘Nerd’. Amanda is going to be the only girl to have ever been to the Star Trek convention that we have set the song in. The reason we want Harry to be his character is to make him the focus of attention. If everyone else is being nerds then Harry's jock character is going to stand out.

For the scene before the song, Steve and I are going to be excited about something that could be considered ‘Nerdy’ and that could actually happen at a convention. Liam’s character then points out a prop from the original series and we freak out. This is when Connor points out that it is only a replica, Steve, Connor and I then have an argument about it. The reason we added this scene in, is to create some context for the audience and to hopefully create humour. We want the scene to be set so that the audience know exactly what is happening.

After Steve and Connor start to act like they might start a fight, Danny runs in. This is when he calls us all over and explains how there is a girl at the convention. All the nerds freak out and ask him questions such as ‘Does she have three boobs?’ This is a reference to Total recoil a film with a cult following. Throughout the scene we make a few references to films, such as: Star wars, Jurassic park and of course Star Trek.

This is when Amanda walks in and asks where she is going to sit. This is when my character says 'Everyone be very still, if you don't move, she can't see you' This is a reference to Jurassic park and how the characters all freeze so they are not attacked by the viscous creature that is standing besides them. This is how we want to show Amanda. We want all of the nerds to be terrified of her and not know what to do (For many of them this is the first time a girl has ever spoken to them)

All of the nerds disperse and Harry walks in to start the song.

i was born this morning

For this song we decided to have it set in a high school room. In this scene we will all be sat a desk and in cannon tap our desks to the rhythm of the music in a way to begin to show the personality of our characters. My character is an outcast who has no idea what to do with his life and who is bored with everything he does. I portray this by being half asleep in the first part of the song and tap my hand on my desk in a way to show that I just want to go home. The lines that I sing in this song had a huge impact on the way that I want to portray my character. The line goes ‘And then I learnt to crawl and I learnt to fly then I spouted wings a flew away’ To me this means that my character has done everything in his life that he feels was necessary and after that has nothing better to do then leave.

During the first chorus we all get up in groups of three and when we are all stood up we move to a different desk and sit down like it is another lesson. Then when the song gets to the part where the words ‘I got lots of things to do’ is repeated 6 times we all stand up one by one and do something that represents our characters.

For my character I jump up and head bang to display that my character is a huge fan of heavy rock music. After that we all move to another desk. Here we again sit like it is another lesson (displaying that we are moving throughout the school day) Here I sing the lines ‘And come tomorrow’ ‘because I desecrated’ ‘a million mother fuckers just like me’ Combining these lines with the lines in between it clearly describes my character. The lines go as follow

‘And come tomorrow

When I’m dead and buried

This place will feel the wrath of my legacy

Because I desecrated I procreated

A million mother fuckers just like me’

These lines again show my character as being an outcast who hasn’t got many (if any friends). The line ‘A million mother fuckers just like me’ intrigues me. This makes me picture my character being angry at everyone who has been mean to him as he knows that there are millions of people who are like him and that he isn’t really an outcast. We finish the song by moving the desks and putting the chairs in a line to represent a bench at a gym lesson (as the next song is ‘Dodge ball’). We all then walk forward and look at the audience then on the final line we all walk back and turn away from the audience to quickly face them again on the final beat. I use this to show my characters awkward personality as I walk forward with my hands in my pockets looking down.