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 :)

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

Concepts

The whole point of this Rookie is to conceptualise then realise something within the entertainment industry. The first stage is, obviously, to come up with the type of events you want to work on as a team.
In the end, we submitted 5 concepts to the Management Team

1. International Music Conference

An (inter)national music conference with as the main theme; how to monetize music. The conference would be aimed at musicians, artist managers, bookers and other relevant positions in the music industry.

A conference was an option given by our coaches, who already had a client lined up. Another group had also opted to create a concept for this, however we see no reason as to why we couldn't work together on making it one great event

2. Music and Fashion

Associating music with fashion has always been one of the key factors to sell music. The best example of a musician being a trendsetter is the US pop singer Madonna who started her career in the early 80’s and is still considered as the Queen of Pop. So, an idea would be to have a fashion show with the AMFI (Amsterdam Fashion Institute) of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the SAE Institute and the Dance school of Hogeschool INHOLLAND or a another Dance school.

3.TWISTER!

Have one band perform on one stage, than let another band play in an opposite stage. This way the audience will keep twisting. It might be cool to have a lot of stages, but of course it’s also doable with two stages.

4. Tour with local bands

1 band from Haarlem, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Den Haag (the specific cities can still be changed).Arrange 2 gigs in every city, which makes for a total of 8 gigs. This way every band will get his own audience to his own city, and perhaps even in other cities. The band who plays in its own city will be the headliner for that show. So if they play in Haarlem, the band from Haarlem will be the main act.

5. “South African” Artists Tour

The original concept was to “export” South African bands to the Netherlands for a couple of weeks and organise a tour – mainly to gain them overseas exposure. Ideally at least four bands but funding will be the determining factor.
Research has indicated that there are some cultural grants/funds available for African artists, and creating awareness of African culture/arts, shifting the focus of the originally intented tour style from 'mainstream' genres of music (pop/rock/indie etc) to a more 'ethnic' feel.

6. Jam It

Idea: Several street musicians and bands from different locations on the streets are connected via Internet streaming broadcast and jam with each other at the same time, performing life in front of the big public. The jam is shown to the audience on the big screens with the overview of the other jamming artists on them so the audience, actually, has a feeling of seeing big jam life at one time from different spots