Rent - Tune Up #1, Voice Mail 1 and Tune Up #2

For this opening scene we start of with Mark (Ashley) and Roger (Tom) on stage, Roger is with his guitar and the back wall is covered in posters as they live in what was once used as a music studio. We see Mark with his camera and he's filming everything, he films Roger tuning his guitar and then when he the answering machine goes off he zooms in. We have a guitar which Tom can use and all he has to do is make it look like he's playing it for this introducton and we'll also need to get a camera for Ashley so he can pretend to film things. What we might have to do is film things before and then edit them before the performence so then when we get to the part where Mark show's his film, we have all the parts done and make it look like he's put it together in his free time.

For Voice Mail 1, Meg is going to be playing Mark's mother as she has a very soft voice when she sings and she can also go rather high and she also sounds a bit like the actress in the actual song. When performing this part, she will be standing on the opposite side of the stage to Mark and Roger and looking stright ahead as this will actually show that she's not actually in the same place as them but also so they can get an idea as to how Marks Mum acts and shows a bit of her personality.

In Tune Up #2, it slightly repeats it's self and once the answering machine part has finished (we don't hear it this time), we see Tom aka Collins (Myself) standing on the main floor (we decided that we wanted to have some sort of levels to show who's inside the main building that the pieces are set in and who's on the street or elsewhere.) And then once Collins is 'detained', I shall be sitting on the steps that are right infront of the stage as it shows he's in some sort of shelter on the street and he's beein injured. After Collins has been introduced, Benny (Carl) then calls them to inform them that he's going collect his Rent (which he said they wouldn't need to worry about). Benny is going to be located on the far left on the main floor so that it shows that there is more than 2 locations being used.

This Song then leads into the song Rent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_WPczZJjU#t=191 - This is a video of how it looks so far, Tune Up #2 ends at 3:10.