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
Awesomeness,
Kelly Noble ;)
Communications
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