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 -