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.
Showing posts with label Rookie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rookie. Show all posts
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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!
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 :)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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
Monday, February 15, 2010
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;
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!
- the muzyQ concept
- our local bands tour concept
- our South African artist tour concept
- our street musician/Jam it concept
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!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Second day of the second week (09-02-2010)
Hi there,
A lot of work has been done today. We have finished our concepts today, and also came up with some new ideas. Apart from the rookie concepts, we have also finished our IPL concepts. In the end we had five innovative new products, and tomorrow we are going to see which one we are going to use for the rest of the course.
But back to the office, it has been a good rookie day today. As I have said already, a lot of work has been done. But we have also done some team spirit exercises, and I have played soccer with Shane, and with Bas, Maxime and Kenny of team Baseline.
Tomorrow after school, we (from InRecords) are all going to eat together after school and have some drinks in Haarlem. We will probably do a pub crawl (sometimes called a bar tour, bar crawl or bar-hopping). But we all hope that Yana is fine tomorrow, since she left sick today at twenty past four today.
That’s it for today,
InRecords
PS I listened to Sandhy Sondoro today, and it is really good. Have a listen to it.
Sandhy Sondoro - End Of The Rainbow:
If you want, you can compare it to two other artists (definitely not bad to be compared to these..): click here
Aerosmith – I don’t want to miss a thing: click here
Bryan Adams - heaven: click here
A lot of work has been done today. We have finished our concepts today, and also came up with some new ideas. Apart from the rookie concepts, we have also finished our IPL concepts. In the end we had five innovative new products, and tomorrow we are going to see which one we are going to use for the rest of the course.
But back to the office, it has been a good rookie day today. As I have said already, a lot of work has been done. But we have also done some team spirit exercises, and I have played soccer with Shane, and with Bas, Maxime and Kenny of team Baseline.
Tomorrow after school, we (from InRecords) are all going to eat together after school and have some drinks in Haarlem. We will probably do a pub crawl (sometimes called a bar tour, bar crawl or bar-hopping). But we all hope that Yana is fine tomorrow, since she left sick today at twenty past four today.
That’s it for today,
InRecords
PS I listened to Sandhy Sondoro today, and it is really good. Have a listen to it.
Sandhy Sondoro - End Of The Rainbow:
If you want, you can compare it to two other artists (definitely not bad to be compared to these..): click here
Aerosmith – I don’t want to miss a thing: click here
Bryan Adams - heaven: click here
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Beginning of a new Rookie era...
Monday 1st february 2010
The day began early for the seven candidates for the Management Team. They met with the interview committee – made up of our coaches and two (impartial) students from our class. Interviews were conducted and after what we believe to have been a difficult few hours, a decison was made as to who the final four were.
As for the remainder of the class, our day started much later, when we all met at “Trouw” in Amsterdam at 3. Kwela Hermanns, one of our coaches, decided that we should start by 'warming up' so we played a 'Ninja' game. It was essentially a way to break the ice, make fun of yourself and relax around each other – which it seemed to have achieved. Following this the Management Team was officially introduced to us. Our commanders on this Rookie ship are:
Leandro: General Manager
Birgit: Marketing/Communications Manager
Sanne: Financial Manager
Stefanie: Creative Manager
Everyone seemed to be content with the choices, so the topic moved on to the teams. Finally, we would find out who we will be collabortaing with for the next 6 months. Our team consists of:
Vincent van Dijk Project Leader
Shane Hagens Marketing Manager
David van der Kroon Finance Manager
Yana Kovtun Creative Manager
Quynh Nguyen Legal Manager
Kelly Noble Contact Manager
The task: Discover your values as a team
Armed with a sheet of paper and a pen, we set off to our corner to get acquainted. Setting ourselves apart from the rest, who were named after fruit, we dubbed ourselves 'The Beers.' Happy with our name – albeit a temporary one – we began the discussions on what sort of basic etiquette we would like to see when conducting business, whether with clients or within the group. It seemed as if we all had a similar way of wanting to conduct business, and were coming from the same place, which is a great way to start! After about 20 minutes all the groups convened to review what each team had done. It was an exercise to see how each team's values differ, or are similar, to your own team's.
To carry on the bonding experience in a more relaxed atmosphere we headed across the road to Canvas for dinner. Settling in to our tables we got to talking about our passions, where we hope to go, what our experiences are within the field and our preference in music. As with earlier, we seem to be a pretty like-minded group, so all indications at this point are that we will work well together.
Dinner was welcomed with open arms at this point as it was 7pm and we were all starving!
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
And so Rookie begins...
As a pre-emptive manoeuvre, we were only required to be present at Rookie at 11 (10.45) on Tuesday. After the dinner the previous night it was greatly appreciated.
The first portion of the day was spent clearing out the office area, claiming areas for our group and familiarising ourselves with our surroundings. Once that was done it was time for our first guest lecture. Wes Wierda, who was the previous coordinator of Rookie, welcomed us to Rookie Music International as well as did a Q&A session. After a short break Kwela Hermanns gave us a rundown of the things we needed to get done before the end of the week. Back to the office we went to get started, and to begin our brainstorming sessions. Before we knew it it was 5 o'clock and time to go home.Our first full work day looms ahead of us...
The day began early for the seven candidates for the Management Team. They met with the interview committee – made up of our coaches and two (impartial) students from our class. Interviews were conducted and after what we believe to have been a difficult few hours, a decison was made as to who the final four were.
As for the remainder of the class, our day started much later, when we all met at “Trouw” in Amsterdam at 3. Kwela Hermanns, one of our coaches, decided that we should start by 'warming up' so we played a 'Ninja' game. It was essentially a way to break the ice, make fun of yourself and relax around each other – which it seemed to have achieved. Following this the Management Team was officially introduced to us. Our commanders on this Rookie ship are:
Leandro: General Manager
Birgit: Marketing/Communications Manager
Sanne: Financial Manager
Stefanie: Creative Manager
Everyone seemed to be content with the choices, so the topic moved on to the teams. Finally, we would find out who we will be collabortaing with for the next 6 months. Our team consists of:
Vincent van Dijk Project Leader
Shane Hagens Marketing Manager
David van der Kroon Finance Manager
Yana Kovtun Creative Manager
Quynh Nguyen Legal Manager
Kelly Noble Contact Manager
The task: Discover your values as a team
Armed with a sheet of paper and a pen, we set off to our corner to get acquainted. Setting ourselves apart from the rest, who were named after fruit, we dubbed ourselves 'The Beers.' Happy with our name – albeit a temporary one – we began the discussions on what sort of basic etiquette we would like to see when conducting business, whether with clients or within the group. It seemed as if we all had a similar way of wanting to conduct business, and were coming from the same place, which is a great way to start! After about 20 minutes all the groups convened to review what each team had done. It was an exercise to see how each team's values differ, or are similar, to your own team's.
To carry on the bonding experience in a more relaxed atmosphere we headed across the road to Canvas for dinner. Settling in to our tables we got to talking about our passions, where we hope to go, what our experiences are within the field and our preference in music. As with earlier, we seem to be a pretty like-minded group, so all indications at this point are that we will work well together.
Dinner was welcomed with open arms at this point as it was 7pm and we were all starving!
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
And so Rookie begins...
As a pre-emptive manoeuvre, we were only required to be present at Rookie at 11 (10.45) on Tuesday. After the dinner the previous night it was greatly appreciated.
The first portion of the day was spent clearing out the office area, claiming areas for our group and familiarising ourselves with our surroundings. Once that was done it was time for our first guest lecture. Wes Wierda, who was the previous coordinator of Rookie, welcomed us to Rookie Music International as well as did a Q&A session. After a short break Kwela Hermanns gave us a rundown of the things we needed to get done before the end of the week. Back to the office we went to get started, and to begin our brainstorming sessions. Before we knew it it was 5 o'clock and time to go home.Our first full work day looms ahead of us...
Posted by Kelly Noble
Communications Manager
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