Visualise it.

As you already read in previous post, we are on full production mode! Very soon (9th June) we have 2 events upcoming and to make it lively for you we created 2 promo-videos! Check those here:
Rookie Showcase
http://animoto.com/play/jvAyyUVLAMds8HNxdbiUSA
Check-In: to the music industry
http://animoto.com/play/16QM74byuAx7mqYjDEm7pQ

Yana.

Check-In @ Streetlab_Projectspace

5 Workshops.
5 Professionals.
5 Views.

Join us at Streetlab_projectspace in Amsterdam for an afternoon of workshops! We'll discuss how your music can be heard - different platforms to get your music heard and how to protect what you put out there and the very instrument you use to create your music.

Workshops will be given by:

- Earproof

- Creative Commons

- 22 Tracks

- Kwela Hermanns (Augmented Reality & music?)

- Sem Bakker (Live Legal Advice)

There is limited space so book your place now by rsvping here. Alternatively send an email to checkin.rsvp@gmail.com stating your name, contact details and if applicable, company/school)

After the workshops are over, there will be an after party (Rookie Showcase) at Winston Kingdom. €5 entry

More info can be found on this facebook event page

It's all coming together!

Project #1: Rooke Showcase

Our poster for the Rookie Showcase is done!

We are working together with Rookie Music (which is the music division of the Dutch side of Rookie) to put on one amazing show! We have hand-picked the best artists our two teams have to offer to make one exciting line-up of up-&-comers!

Below you will find some information on each band - whether you know their music or not, its going to be a great evening of music!

so join us @ Winston Kingdom on the 9th of June :D

Entry is a mere €5 - less than a euro a band!

Get your tickets online @ http://www.winston.nl/club/party-booking

Boleo Mic
Beleo Mic is a 22 year old rapper from Hoorn. He is a part of the Hip Hop group ‘Dubbel B’ and has lately released his solo-album called ‘Boleo’s Portfolio’. Boleo Mic is already important for the Hip Hop scene in his own area, and he is ready to conquer the rest of Holland!
www.ongekendtalent.nl/user/38841

Bende van Ellende
Bende van Ellende is a Dutch Hip Hop Group that consists of two rappers: ‘Grap’ & ‘Rustik’, and two producers: ‘Sonny Black’ & ‘Dondersteen’. Although their name means: ‘Gang of Misery’ in Dutch, their fans know that the group has a real positive message behind most of their songs. They have also recorded their own album, called: ‘Vrije Geest’.
http://www.bendevanellende.com/

Ray-T
Born in Bangkok (Thailand) in 1987, and moving to the Netherlands nine years later, Ray-T is currently using his refreshing voice for various R&B and Hip Hop projects. Ray-T’s ambition is to play his music mostly unplugged, accompanied by guitar and piano.
www.boomr.nl/rayt

Rachèl Louise
After completing a study at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood (LA), Rachèl Louise has returned to the Netherlands to create her own style of music. She is currently promoting her upcoming EP with a series of living room concerts.
http://www.rachellouisemusic.nl/

Right as Rain
Right as Rain is a pop band influenced by Soul, Jazz and Funk music. Although they exist for less than a year, they have already created a set list that will literally move you.
http://rarb2010.hyves.nl/

Blinky Palermo
This is a band that really creates catchy pop songs! They started developing their own style in 2006, and by now they have a real creative, alternative and cozy pop sound.
www.myspace.com/blinkypalermo

Before Quynh's Day =)))))

Before going on vacation we have done great deal of good job, that's how I personally feel!

We designed image of event, we are on the full gear in the production part and at the same time managing all the other aspects like sponsoring, communications....! Event-making is fun, it is bad for your health, but it is fun =)

By the way, if you as a visitor (preferably company) of this amazing blog are interested to sponsor our event, you can check this online flash presentation here www.wix.com/karmakel/muzyq-proposal and contact us for sponsorship package!

Have amazing holidays (to students!)

Have amazing Quynh's Day (to Quynh, our very own legal manager!)

Yana,

Creative/Production manager.

the day before the 22nd.

2mrw April the 22nd is going to be a busy day for inRecords !
Vincent is going to meet Trey from First Monday, then meet Robin from muzyQ with Kelly and Yana.
We all just hope that we can finally decide on a definite theme for the event in June.

Ater that some of us are going to attend the 22tracks.nl meeting at MINIbar in Amsterdam. I am really curious what it is like and if we get a chance to network properly.

Speaking of networking, we had quite an interesting masterclass from the founder of Tribe of Noise on Tuesday and we would really love them to be present at our event.

At last I'd like to add some pics from last week's nachos evening at Kelly's :D





q.u.y.n.h ;)

Quick update

A lot of work to do, but a lot of work done!

We got a call today that lifted our spirits a little (we'll keep this one to ourselves for now :P) but also set in a little bit of panic as we need to be completely sorted out by Monday to pull this off. *crosses fingers*

Thursday is fast approaching, which means so is our follow-up meeting with muzyQ! We have a loaded week ahead, but with all 6 of us working full steam ahead we will be fine :)
All in all this is the industry we WANT to be in, and any aspect we can have some hands on experience in is an asset to us. Personally, event production is where I think I would like to end up so doing something that involves a bit of everything, without compromising the quality level, is great!

We have a good team, and seem to enjoy working together...for the most part :P We have our down moments when the stress of everything really starts to affect us a little, but luckily we all seem to look out for each other. For example, today when morale was a bit low David silently decided we needed some cheering up so off he went to Albert Heijn, and bought everyone in our group a Kinder Surprise egg!!!


Thanks for the boost, David!

Kelly Noble :)

After that randomness...

Someday last week, MEM students came across to our glass house to invite us to an ‘outing’ they had planned for Friday – a trip to the Eurocam Media Centre in Antwerp where we would get a tour and be part of the studio audience for a gameshow “TROS Stedenspel.” Only 2 people were available for a full Friday– myself and Robyn.

Friday morning came along and at 8.30 sharp the group,which consisted of about 33 MEM students and us 2 IMM students., was on the bus ready to go! It took about 2 and a half hours to get to Antwerp, but the bus trip itself was fairly entertaining - Chupa-Chups were handed out, the radio was turned on and good old 90’s songs were sung! As we approached Eurocam the bus driver seemed to be a bit disorientated and went around the circle 3 times…it gave us an opportunity to take in the surroundings a bit more :P Eventually we got to a point where the bus could not go any further, so we all hopped out and walked to the venue – a mere 5 minutes away.

The venue is huge. It houses Nickelodeon and MTV Networks amongst others. The tour was interesting, and began with a short video introduction to the types of projects that they have worked on, all of which were on a huge scale e.g. filming & broadcasting the Winter Olympic Games. We got to see a few studios in their raw state as well as a studio set up with green screens and even the storage area for all the cables, filming vans/busses etc. They had a LOT of cables! The tour lasted about an hour, then we had lunch – it was just hanging around time until the recording began.

After some seating issues (I think the main problem was there wasn’t enough audience so they wanted t place people in such a way that it would look like there were more people :/ ) we all settled into our “seats”- where we would be for the next 5 hours! As a foreigner I knew nothing about this game show, but I can now speak about it with some knowledge: it is a game show where 2 teams – each episode one from the Netherlands and one from Belgium – compete in random tasks and activities in/on/around/ water. The word ‘random’ was definitely overused that day but it was completely appropriate.

We ended around 6, so I said goodbye to the group heading back to the bus and met my dad, who lives in Belgium (free trip to Belgium = yay!) :D

But now it’s Monday so it’s back to Rookie time! Today a lot of brainstorming was done with regards to the name of the event, the kind of image we think it should have and the overall concept. After a lot of back and forth we finally have a confirmed date and can really get the ball rolling. We now have a name, a theme and have started finalizing the proposal we will give to our ‘client’, with whom we meet on Thursday. We have a lot of work to do, but we are confident we will achieve what we want, to the standards we have set in the time given.

We have a lot of ‘events’ planned this week. Our week (and weekend) looks like this:
Thursday: meeting with FM
muzyQ meeting
22 Tracks meet-up
Friday: Soundcloud meet-up

Saturday & Sunday: Music Hack Day

Now go ahead and give your opinion on this:

Linkedin Event
Facebook Event

Awesomeness,

Kelly Noble ;)

Communications

Bl0000000000g!

The best way to starts today's blog is probably going to be; just start writing and see what I come up with.

So I've started just writing and so far it's not working out that well because the first two sentences of the blog aren't really that interesting. Let's hope the third is better. Woops.







So to get back where I wasn't...

Today is an especially warm day in the Rookie office. Somehow Rookie Entertainment reminds me of Loekie de Leeuw and it's the first thing i associated with Rookie when i first heard of it. But there are no lions here, even though the temperature would suit 'm. Anyways for the international students Loekie de Leeuw was a... well.. a doll that brightened up commercials for a TV station between '72 and '04. Granted the lion looked a bit dodgy in his final years but he still rocked.

Asjemenou!?

Loekie the Lion would have become a viral hit if he would have been around in the social media era. His catchphrase "Asjemenou!?" was the only thing he said and it was the "WTF?!" of that time.

All of this has nothing to do with music of course, but it did have something to do with Rookie, sorta, so that's good to!

Does anyone else have people asking them what instrument you play when you say you're a int. music student? I don't play an instrument... I mean i can keep a beat, somewhat, and hum a melody, sometimes, but I don't really play an instrument. I don't really know what instrument would suit me either. I tried playing the guitar but I sucked and I like bass but thats to much like the guitar. Recently I bought dj decks, and that's fun! But not an instrument. (Sorry DJ's.) It just feels like i should be playing an instrument as an "International Music Management student".

"You should play the trumpet!"

At least according to this link... Well I don't know about the trumpet... well i know about the trumpet... but playing it? I don't have the lung capacity. So what musical instrument suits you best? If someone gets the traingle i want to know about it!


Do triangle classes actually excist?

Btw...
If anybody is reading this and would like to share some music with me; find me on Soundcloud! or Swift FM.

And now for some music;


Radio Soulwax Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1 28/12/07) by Red Bull Elektropedia

Später!

Vincent.

Some pics so far :)

Today we are finally going to meet Robin from muzyQ. So hopefully after the meeting we have a date set for our event. We are now busy preparing for the pitch. We have made a beautiful guitar, with names of sponsors and partners we want to work with and our concepts. Kelly finished the booklet and it likes nice. Kelly and Vincent are going to do the presentation. The whole team will be present though. So after today we hope we can actually get started on making the event happen and really arrange some stuff. Wish us luck!

The MT is going to present their management contract to the RMI experts so good luck to them:).

So keep checking this blog. Will InRecords succeed in their meeting with muzyQ? Is the event going to happen? And is today the day that the first REAL InRecords meets the beers meeting will happen? Find out next time in :..this blog!

Shane

After all the Easter eggs ...

... Some of us met yesterday on Easter Monday to socialize at the First Monday meeting. It was fun and we got to talk to the organizer about possible partnerships.

Once the spring breeze hit the office so did the flu ( or something similar at least) as we noticed some of our team members are starting to feel ill. In fact, Vincent stayed in today to fully give his body a rest in order to be full of regained energy for the upcoming days.

We are very excited about the meeting with muzyQ this Thursday and hope that things will start rolling at last :)

Other than that, we decided on having another - this time complete hopefully- "InRecords meets the Beers" gathering.

Should be fun !

Hope, Vin and Kelly will feel better by then to keep up with us ;)

Today we had to finish the Project Proposal which we managed to do.

Luckily, the MT delayed the deadline from 9am to the end of the day. Phew !

Yana and me had exams today and we'll keep our fingers crossed for a 5.5 or let's say 10 !

My last words for today ( 'cos of the beautiful weather and end of our exams) :

"I'M WALKING ON SUNSHINE ! OH OOOHH ! "

- Quynh -

Gitart and yesterday workshop

Yesterday Rookie went on the workshop about the sound and light equipment for events. It was very short but informative. We learned how to roll the wires, that microphones have to be packed up first, that amplifiers have to be switched on last and switched off first, that to escape horrible high pitch sounds microphones have to be kept away from the speakers and that it's better to get many people to arrange the stage and live performance and pack up, because the equipment is normally heavy enough to be lifted by few.
Today InRecords made graphics and prints for the guitar that is going to be a tangible representation of our business ideas. The guitar is going to be covered with images of the event content, sponsors and will show how big the crowd will be there. Moreover, we are improving our communication plan especially one addressed to amateur musicians, who are one of our main targets. We are in the process of clearing up the media partners, arranging grants and looking for alternative money resources. Probably tomorrow we will have first meeting with our client. It is getting more close to the actual production phase!


by Yana Kovtun,
Creative Manager.

Working In The Sun

Yesterday, tuesday the 23th of march, we had quite a list of things that we wanted to do. We have made draft letters for all parties we might want to contact in the near future. So we made seperate letters for companies, schools and people that we would like to have for a workshop or presentation.

Also, we have started preparing our meeting with Robin Lemmers, the owner of muzyQ. We think it is best to have short pitch, with an extra twist to it. We will tell you more about this at a later stage.

We have started contacting some people as well, and by calling the people we have collected some direct e-mail adresses. This way the mails will get to the right people straight away. We are also happy announce that Creative Commons has shown interest in our concept, although more information is needed beforehand of course.

One of those things is the date, something we have been thinking about already of course, but we would first like to muzyQ, to find out what their preference might be. Within our group, we we're thinking of the start of June on a weekday. This way we can attract students, and be ahead of the World Cup madness which will start on the 10th of June with the opening ceremony.

We have a lot to do today as well, so I will get back to work asap. Sorry for the delay, but we we're working a bit longer than expected yesterday. I hope it is going to be a little bit less warm compared to yesterday in our green-house office.

Keep reading,

David

Monday...

Monday again. Almost the end of the day and we still have a lot of work to do for the rest of the week. We are going to have a couple of meetings with our coaches this week and of course the deadline of our project plan is this Thursday! Our flash presentation turned out great and we hope it will be appreciated by our client as well.

We just had a meeting with Annelies, Kwela and the MT. They were surprised we didn’t make any contact with people who we want to give workshops yet. I don’t feel that we have a real reason why we didn’t but we will get on it as soon as possible. I hope no one got the impression that we have been slacking last week because we actually were very busy.

Hope to get contacts very soon so the next time, in a meeting, we can present more detailed information about our project.

p.s: next Inrecords meet the beers meeting anyone?:)

Shane

Future approaching

As every recent days, today was a very productive office time. We sorted out all the details needed for the event to run smooth, successful and stay attractive. Annalies (our guiding teacher) had her birthday a day before and today she got some tulips from us, a card and a birthday song.
We are very excited since next week our meeting with potential client might take place and we will hopefully see if the project gets a green light. It is crucial point in the small life of our team, because we all fell in love with our ideas and plans of implementing those ideas effectively.
Needless to say, everything depends on us and our careful approach to the client. After all, it will be a great loss not to have the project accepted. I would say, for both parties. =)
So, let's keep our fingers crossed.
Today is a Rookie Borrel event in the Stalker club in Haarlem. This time the party there will have some oriental theme. I personally go there and can't wait to relax and have a nice chat with all our office colleagues.
Inrecords wish you a pleasant weekend and we will see you next Monday! Don't forget to follow you heart meanwhile and do good things like smiling, helping others and creating nice new music =)

by Yana Kovtun,
Creative manager of Inrecords.

Another Day, Another Idea

Creative Skills and Product Launching were the main focus of today. The day began with the presentation of our product for our Innovative Product Launch class. Our idea a product that could give you the feeling of being in a live concert - ViGig. ViGig, which stands for Virtual gig, is a set of 3D glasses that plays 3D concerts of your own choice. You put them on, select your desired concert and your eyes will experience a 3D concert they have never done before. The other team’s ideas varied from a wristband that gives off an electric impulse to the beat of music so you can (feign) knowing how to dance, to a device in the style of a sat-nav which will give you suggestions on which places to visit while in a foreign country, based on your music preferences. All in all we have a very creative group of people who are obviously passionate about their field :)

Our group spent the rest of the day being quite productive, working on the creative skills assignment. We had to “create a problem” and follow six steps to try to come to a solution. It was a fun process, and even though we didn’t really get to a proper solution we enjoyed the process.

Although Quynh and David had to leave early to fulfill work obligations we creative juices continued to flow (after a quick lunch break.) We had an (optional) task from Kwela to use colour co-ordinated post-its to help us think of every aspect of our event from the perspective of a visitor. We are having a lot of fun thinking about every aspect of each concept within our event. We do tend to go off topic a bit, thinking of aspects in an organisers view rather than a visitor’s, so we have started taking notes of what we need to come back to and discuss again.

At the end of the day , which is only half an hour away, we will have accomplished a lot more than we thought we would have, especially with Kwela’s task making us really think about every little detail.

All in all we are enjoying Rookie, and have adapted to our new location very quickly.

Till next time,

Kelly & the rest of the beers ;)

InRecords

Budgets budgets budgets...

Hi there!

After a hectic week things are finally starting to calm down in the new Rookie office and we're getting back to our regular work week. After returning from Brussels last tuesday we came back to school on Wednesday in a brand new office space. Lots of light, not enough space, cold and then warm again sums up the office pretty well! We will have pictures of our new office up sometime this week!

The past few days for the InRecords team have been spent on further developing the budget for our projects. After a few meetings and get togethers with the experts at INHolland and our very own management team the decision has been made to prioritize the concept involving muzyQ over our band tour concept. The decision was not easy to make because we loved both concepts but decisions had to be made and we are happy to be working on the muzyQ concept over the coming few weeks.

After a few sessions with the financial experts and our very own expert David the budget for our muzyQ concept is coming along nicely. It took us many draft budgets to get here, and it will probably require us to make adjustments in the future, but we're happy with the results.

Tomorrow morning we will have our product launch pitches for IPL and then it's already the last day of the week!

Happy surfing!

Vincent,
for the InRecords team

Rookie goes Brussels

From Monday till Tuesday Rookie office left to Brussels. We needed some inspiration and good rest.The trip started with....snow! In March.

And minus temperature. Of course, we all didn't want to stay long outside and therefore spent most of the time indoors, visiting AB Concerts and popular local bars.

AB Concerts amazed by its history and informative tour arranged for us by its art-director. We got to know his point of view on the future of music business. He pointed out the trend of live performances and tipping of all the industries which serve concerts (e.g. sound, light engineering). So, this is definitely the area where the most money is nowadays. Therefore, it makes sense to work in tours, concerts, venues or booking.
He also mentioned that with Internet it is way easier nowadays to promote for unknown acts: just place the links to Myspace of the acts and audience can check how they perform live. Another interesting practice is the streaming of the concerts after the tickets are sold out. But here you must be careful with the resolution of the broadcast itself to ensure it doesn't break because of too many viewers.
Not to forget for those seeking nice internship, AB Concerts is opened for your CVs!
After such an interesting tour we had some time for dinner at the same venue. Meanwhile we enjoyed multiple pictures of big acts who performed at AB and good music in the bar. Meal was over the top and afterwards we headed to the local pubs. Because it was Monday night, even the best pubs such as MP3 and DNA looked very deserted. But we tryed our best to have fun even asked for some 90's music in MP3 but got very much of 2000' hits. So we went to conclusion that Brussels was probably ahead of the time in music and while we enjoyed Scooter, they already listened to Lady Gaga =)
Some of us got more than tipsy and started talking about magic boxes.=) Some of us tryed to play football with the cars. =))) Overall, trip was just as good as you can imagine!
One bad note will go to the hostel we stayed at, named Youth Hostel Van Gogh. Highly not recommendable to spend your night there! You will occur in the frozen rooms with collapsing beds, 1 mm thick pillows and ice cold showers.
The way back home was sunny and chilled. Now we are ready to work and conquer music worl!

" We are Sushi - hungover " !

The entire crew of inRecords went to eat Sushi last night (All you can eat !) at the Kyoto Cafe, Amsterdam. Only VIncent and David were missing out on this gathering but we're all pretty sure that we're gonna have another nice Sushi night =)

After a few days of less work at school than before we finally got some feedback about our band tour as well as for our preliminary report (IPL). That made us discuss our concepts more in detail and gave us more work to do.
Above that, most of the team did the Peer Assessmet for our coach today and we had a thorough discussion about which bands to choose for the tour.
We managed to wrap it up to 4 bands in the end.

Concerning the next week, we had to plan on what needs to be done next and also how we are going to do the assignment of the creative skills class. This was necessary as we will be gone for 2 days in Brussels next week.

Yay ! Should be fun ...

Tonight some of us might go to the Rookie Borrell in Haarlem but others decided to recover from the "Sushi-hangover" or simply keep their energy for Brussels !

;)



Quynh

Rookie's; but not for long!

The day started off with a complete team this morning, the first time since we all came back from our vacation last week. On the program today is the project plan and what still needs to be done to hand these in for review at our management team and the experts that will analyze them. We divided some of the work that we could do before we get the feedback on our project proposals back.

We will have to provide more details and more specific plans for the project plan so we are busy doing research and making decisions on the look and feel of each concept that was in our project proposal. The project plan is supposed to be a more substantial and detailed document, it should basically be the last document before the production program goes into effect and we leave the preparation phase of our concepts. This means that the design and tone of our project plan is very important because it will be the last official change we have to add and remove things from our concepts before the final framework of each concept is finished, and more or less set in stone.

For our band concept we are currently developing it further in terms of final band and venue selection, before we can start contacting third parties we will first need finish of the design of the tour so we have some visuals to offer parties we want to contact and work with. Next to this we are in the process of finalizing the marketing and communication plan for the band tour with regards to sponsors, media partners and other external parties we might want to work with.

Our muzyQ concept is going a bit slower because we are more dependent on muzyQ itself before we can make any concrete decisions regarding our project proposal. We still need to receive feedback from our coaches and experts on the project proposals as well, making it harder to progress in a constructive manner with the muzyQ concept. We are anxiously awaiting feedback for our muzyQ concept and are looking forward to continue working on it.

Besides all of the work we are still cheerful and enthusiastic about Rookie but most importantly organizing quality projects at the end of our school semester!

Vincent van Dijk
and the rest of the InRecords RMI team.

=)