Criteria 4

Rehearsal 1
Today me and Andy joined up as a pair for our variety performance in a few weeks. We have come to the conclusion that we want to do a musical performence based number but we havent we yet decided how we would like to perform it. We have so far discussed about doing a covering a few songs by bands such as 'The Libertines' and 'The Stone Roses' but we have yet to come to a conclusion.

Rehearsal 2
In this rehearsal we have came to the conclusion that we want to do an acoutsic cover of the comedy song "4 Chords" by the band Axis of Awesome which is a piece made up of a simple 4 chord pattern and with single lines from popular songs that go with the pattern as the lyrics. We decided to do this because we feel that it has alot of potential to have a strong comedicv value to it and it is also something that people might enjoy listening to and hearing lines from their favourite songs.

Rehearsal 3
In todays rehearsal we had another look at the song and decieded that we wanted to put our own spin on it and add in songs that we like and take some of the ones out to shorten the piece because we had also noticed it was quite long.
We also added a story line to the piece so that it has some sort of context and does not just come out of the blue. We decided that my character would be found by Andys upset due to his dog dying so in his grief he had written a melody of his dogs favourite songs and wanted to perform it.

Rehearsal 4/first performance
Today we performed the piece to the rest of the class where it recieved a positive reaction. People seemed to like the idea of lots of songs all played together and found it quite funny aswell. However, we both felt that we over played the story part and that it dragged on too long and wasnt as funny as it could be. Coming to this conclusion we decied to scrap this story line and create another one for the next rehearsal.