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.

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

Another start of the week at Rookie!

For us, the second years IMM students, Rookie went into it's second official week today. As the weeks progress so do our ideas and concepts that we would like to realize. Today we pitched our ideas to the management team and the experts working at INHolland. The concepts we pitched were as followed;

• the muzyQ concept
• our local bands tour concept
• our South African artist tour concept
• our street musician/Jam it concept
  

We received valuable feedback on our concepts and the things we need to keep in mind when we develop them further.
For now our tasks consist of finalizing the project proposals and adding content to our concepts. We all have specific tasks for the concepts but we have regular meetings to bring each other up to date. So at the moment it's all about taking the ideas and concepts we have right now and making them financially and commercially viable to execute later in our Rookie period.

Besides working on the concepts we have regular meetings with our management team to ensure a good group dynamic and productive project groups. As an added bonus the Rookie IMM project groups all went to lunch together today to celebrate finishing the pitches!

We still have a busy week ahead so check back for updates on our concepts and the time we spend in Rookie Entertainment!