Rent production meeting

Today we sat down as a group and had a meeting about our production of Rent to decided what we needed to disscuss about our whole story. In our meeting we were ask to work in pairs and talk about what we wanted our production to reprsent. I was paired with Meg to start writing what we wanted from the show, we came up with these ideas:
Dark and gritty
Dirty (Setting)
Conection with characters
Small cast (Personal)
Colourful cloths and characters

I didn't agree with all of what me and Meg came up with as I want our show to be centre around the issues in the show, not the characters themselfs. I wanted our show to focus on this to link back to Jonathan Larson original creation of Rent which was to create awareness of Aids but with our production I wanted to create awareness of more issues within Rent like poverity, drug abuse and reaching for your dreams. I would like this to be what our production of Rent was about as it would diversities us from other productions but everyone else wanted the show to be about the emotional invovelment of characters.
We started to talk about our roles in the production other then our characters and what we can do to help our improve our show. We talked about what roles we can be in our production:
Costume designer: Freya
Set crew: Tom and Dan S
Lighting: Dan M
Front of house: Dom
Fundraising: Me, Meg, Carl and Toby
We then had a quick talk about where we wanted to perform and what equipment we wanted for the show. We all agreed we wanted to perform our production in our school hall as our stage in the hall is black and dirty so it would help set our production in the realism we want for the show. We also talked about staging and said we wanted to have an extention of the stage but on a lower platfrom so we can get some levels in our performance. Finally we decided to have our audience set up in cabaret as we belived it would set a better atmoshpere for them instead of conventional sitting.