Day # 8 Wednesday 12/6

Yesterday was challenging.  We need to:

1. spend some time developing the approach to our team’s musical
2. Researching the details needed for each individual song

How we will proceed:

1. Get with your groups. First, review the concerns from the other team and from your consultant. (5-10 minutes)
1. Are there common areas of concern?
2. What are they?
3. Can your current arrangement/plan fix those problems?
4. If not, how are you going to consider rearranging your story?

2. If your group is struggling to devise the arrangement of your musical you may consider: (5-10 minutes)

1. Place your green cards back on the table.  
2. Try to think about a theme / big idea / thread that links the topics.  That may be a better approach.  Too many groups are trying to make story that is sequential (first event - then second event - so on…)
3. Think about who (individual or group might tell the story - the narrator)  What is the advantage of that person/group telling the story?
4. Do your topics better lend themselves to tell the story live, looking into the future or reflecting on the past?  Or maybe a combination?  This is how you need to think “outside the box.”

3. Collaborate and rearrange the story to “pitch” to your consultant.  The pitch: (Prepare pitch - 15 minutes)

1. Needs to identify the thread that will weave the story together.
2. Needs to identify how the story or parts of the story will be told (past, present, future).
3. Needs to have each individual explain how they will devise his/her individual song (the perspective).  Also, what still needs to be discovered to write that song (this will be the next phase of research)

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4.  Research  / Pitch → Team Conference with Consultant