Thursday, March 29, 2012

Room Creativity

How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?
By having a lot of concert posters all around the room. 
I'm thinking of making collages of small flyers to put up. 

What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
Answer 1: Something similar to the activity during my 20 minute presentation.
Answer 2: Have groups of 5 create a concert poster with a line-up for the genre assigned to them. 

Monday, March 12, 2012

Answer 2

EQ: What is most important in producing a successful concert?
Answer 2: Thoroughly promoting your concert by utilizing a street team and social networking sites is most important in producing a successful concert.
Evidence:

  1. If you have a street team and cover all the concerts in the area, you will be unstoppable. Flyers can also be distributed to different high schools and colleges/universities (Ex. Members of the Club Matinee Street Team that passes out flyers at iPoly.)
  2. ReverbNation- A website where venue and band profiles can be created on Facebook and people can sample the music of upcoming shows. (Ex. The Glass House Profile)
  3. Guerilla marketing techniques (Ex. stickers and wheat pasting)
Sources: 
  1. 3rd Interview with Rene Contreras 
  2. Service Learning at The Glass House Record Store with Rene Contreras
  3. www.weburbanist.com article "So... What Is Guerilla Marketing?" 

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Product

Product as of March:
I have all the necessary knowledge to produce a successful event
(Which I will do if all goes well for my Independent Component 2)

-I have learned about and practiced promotion with Rene Contreras.
-I have observed several successful concerts at The Glass House & Fox Theater
-I have learned how to practically spend money on snacks to maximize profits with Cameron Corp
-I have learned the basics of live sound engineering with Dennis Thorbourn and Manny Sanchez
-I have learned about and practiced being a roadie/stage hand with Kevin DeFranco
-I have learned about band hospitality with Brandon Cuarisma