4 February, 2014: The Talent Show Fundraiser Poster

In this session we decided our job roles for our next, upcoming fundraiser, the Talent Show. I also brought in laminated posters which I designed to promote the event to coincide with the sign-up sheets which Serena had printed and posted around the performing arts areas of the campus.

The poster which I designed for the Talent Show

We also focused attention on the following fundraiser which Serena suggested to be a Quiz Night, which we quickly agreed upon. I feel that we are becoming more efficient in our decision making but there is still a way to go.

We discussed:

- Having teams of between 4-6 players with a cost of £1 to enter per persons

- Multiple choice questions

- Multiple rounds to make the event longer, more worthwhile and interesting for its participants

- Round suggestions; name that song amd name that face

- Nostalgic/childhood theme

- Possible topics:

-- Kid's TV: Thomas the Tank Engine, Brum, Pingu, Ed, Ed and Eddy, Tweenies, Teletubbies, Noddy, Powerpuff Girls, Danger Mouse, the Clangers, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Tom & Jerry, Timone & Pumba, Jungle Run, 50/50, Top Cat, Arthur, Pinky & the Brain, Raven, That's So Raven

-- Music: The Spice Girls, Blue, Backstreet Boys, Misteeq, S Club 7, B*witched, Jennifer Lopez, Dido, Anastacia, Sisqo, N*Sync, Destiny's Child, Joss Stone, Christina Aguilera, Jamelia, Britney Spears, Lemar, Daniel and Natasha Beddingfield, N-Dubz, Pink, Mary J. Blige, Blackstreet, 5ive, Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Christina Milian, So Solid Crew, t.A.T.u

We had a lot of fun discussing nostalgic themed topics and it certainly united us in a way which I have not seen before.

20 January, 2014: First group rehearsal

Overall punctuality was lacking and so we lost a considerable amount of valuable rehearsal time (over a 1/4). In addition to this, one of our group members who is a guitarist was not present and so we could not rehearse "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers as planned.

Instead, we started on Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" and managed to get up to the second verse. We arranged our rendtion with accompaniment from a keyboard, guitar and a cajón, as a full band (as featured in the original recording) would be unsuitable for the relaxed, live lounge setting we are aspiring to create for our final event.

We harmonised very well together by the end of the rehearsal, by which point we had split the first verse between myself and Serena whilst Kian led the chorus and I harmonised with him. As a group we collectively harmonised the introduction which is a recurring motif in the song but we opted to sing only the vowel "ah" as oposed to the "ba-ya-ya" that Seal sings in his original arragement.

The original 1994 music video released for "Kiss from a Rose"