Job Roles Within IMerge Company

In our company, there are many different job roles, which cover different areas.

Admin

The Admin Team are responsible for things such as:

• Promoting and distributing awards to their outstanding employees
• Closing and signing upcoming deals for the company
• Public relations

The Admin Roles:

• CEO: Aimee & Daniel Conway
• Company Secretary/ IT Manager: Lorena
• Finance Manager: Malaika

Events

The Events Team are responsible for things such as:

• Promotion
• Selling as many tickets by targeting correct market
• Ensure all things are organised at the venue

The Events Roles:

• A&R: Ben
• Sales & Marketing: Deji
• PR: Daniel F
• Events Manager: Reuben & Paris & Neelam

Creative

The Creative Team are responsible for things such as:

• Poster and Flyer Design
• Logo Design
• Website Design & Keeping it updated

The Creative Roles:

• Art & Design: Shantel
• Multimedia Manager: Ruben Gardiner
• Journalist: Suryian
• Photography: Billie-Rose

Rehearsal Schedule

1	7/3/11	During this week we were still completing our schools tour project
2	14/3/11	In this week, we will discuss bands and rearrange a new timetable as I will be part of the other class’s band.
3	21/3/11	We will begin our first cover ‘Fortune faded’ that we discussed and agreed on as a band which we decided to learn a few days before rehearsal.
4	28/3/11	We plan to being out first composition as well as running over the first cover song
5	4/4/11	Plan to progress the original
	11/4/11	Plan to do rehearsal either at Round house or Aimee’s at least twice a week. Plan to work on a new cover
	18/4/11	Plan to do rehearsal either at Roundhouse or Aimee’s at least twice a week. Plan to work on an original composition
6	25/4/11	to continue the progress made during the holidays
7	2/5/11	By now we should have 4 tracks if all goes according to plan. Continue getting all tracks on a high performance level
8	9/5/11	Last rehearsal meaning getting everything tight and ready to perform
9	16/5/11	Week 1 of gigs
10	23/5/11	Week 2 of gigs
11	30/5/11	Summer half-term
12	6/6/11	Supporting materials  due by 10th June

Business Schedule

1	9/3/11	We will Individually decided on job role and discuss company aims
2	16/3/11	Decide on a company name
3	23/3/11	Company meeting discussing individual job role plans, charities, venues, logos, company website, campaigns and financial aspects.
4	30/3/11	Project management processes
5	6/4/11	Hold another company meeting, check progress and analyze and post all roles to individual blogs
	11/4/11	Continue updating blog
	18/4/11	Continue updating blog
6	27/4/11	Enhance aspects of the company, sort venue hire, confirm optional charities, give out promotional materials
7	4/5/11	Finalize all planning
8	11/5/11	Finalize all planning
9	16/5/11	Week 1 of gigs
10	25/5/11	Week 2 of gigs
11	30/5/11	Summer half-term
12	6/6/11	Supporting materials  due by 10th June

Rehearsals Outside Of College

As we had two weeks of Easter holidays, as band we decided that it would be a good idea to meet up on certain days, being Tuesday and Thursday to rehearse at Aimee’s house from midday to late evening.

Our rehearsals gave us time to go over tracks weve already begun and get them tighter and hopefully completed. We then moved onto our new track, ‘Blackest Eyes’ by Porcupine Tree, which is on its way of nearly being finished. We then moved on to an original, which has yet been completed as it is not a basic structured song.

I think it was a good idea that we made a commitment in our spare time to do rehearsal however, I found it difficult at times due to a new job and lack of communication within the band.

Monday 4th April

In the earlier rehearsal today, Piers and Nita weren't in which meant we were unable to rehearse ' Fortune Faded' so we ran through out original with keys, lead guitar and drums. As there was only so much we could do we discussed different tracks that we could prepare for in the future. 


In the later rehearsal, Majority of our band were there, But the bass had to be played by K, We built up original with a chorus vocally along with a middle 8. We will need to use our rehearsal to just get the track tight and be able to perform with confidence.

30/03/2011

Start 10.05
End 11.20
First band meeting
•       Point 1: The first point raised in this meeting was to create an external page for our company. The idea was to create a page on a major social network like Facebook or MySpace giving information on our company, our course and any up and coming events. An alternative to this is to link our blog page on our own Facebook page (or any other social networks). We aim to gain some exposure by doing this in order to generate a crowd at a later date for our performances. Lorena has been left in charge of creating or linking a page.

•       Point 2: Our second point raised was to make a start on taking band photos for our company blogs and external WebPages. We also touched on making recordings of songs. Maybe from past shows our out of collage bands etc. This will also go on our company page and external WebPages. Our aim here is to define our identities and give people a sense of who we are as people and musicians.

•       Point 3: To really put a stamp on our company and define it more we need a logo for our separate bands, our company and an extra logo for the Japan cause. We have all decided we will draw up some ideas and give them to shantelle in order to finalise our logos. So everyone’s gotta be “on it” for this. DEADLINE MONDAY!!!!


•       Point 4: In preparation for our final performances we discussed hosting small events. Our main idea for this was to busk. Out of this we also thought it would be a good idea to host our events as charity fund raisers towards the Japan disaster. We agreed that from the money we make from all performances we would give 70% to charity and 30% to cover expenses.

•       In conjunction to this we thought it would be a good idea if we contacted some charities like the Red Cross, to ask for promotional items such as buckets with the charity logos on. The idea for this is to make people feel more inclined to give us their money. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!?.... Deji is in charge of contacting the charities.
•       We also talked about contacting news papers such as metro and our collage newspaper. The aim of this is to expose ourselves in order to generate a crowd for future gigs and events. Deji is also in charge of contacting the newspapers.
•       To further expose ourselves we agreed we would make a YouTube account dedicated to our company. On this YouTube account we will put recordings of our rehearsals and other music related things. Ruben Gardener is in charge of creating this account.

•       Point 5: The Events management team have researched a little into some venues and have managed to get a few numbers. Their main task is to contact them, discuss our performances and find out the expenses of playing at the venues.

•       Point 6: We re-evaluated our discussion on busking and performing. We have all agreed that during the Easter holiday and we will meet up to rehearse for busking and maybe even gigging. We may need to get our hands on busking licences.

•       Point 7: Ticket pricing seemed like a lengthy discussion. We tried to determine a way to estimate ticket pricing. This could mean setting a ratio between the prices of an adult ticket to student ticket. From this we can estimate a general cost and maybe cap the amount of people we allow to watch us perform. The Ticket prices will be age dependant. (Student prices £2.00/ adult prices £3.00?) To save money on using tickets for every performance and event we came to the conclusion that we would use Stamps for small events and tickets for major ones. Malaika is in charge of finalising the pricing for our tickets.

•       Point 8: Our last point was on financial affairs. Since we all have to keep a financial record of our purchases and expenditures, we agreed that we would all start doing some independent research into Any items and services that may involve money ( P.A hire/ rehearsal hire)