My contribution for this lazy week. February 19, 2010
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This week for me has been a lazy week for me, on Tuesday’s meeting me and Steffen discussed about his band’s stuff for prototyping and we tired to select his stuff for the press kit. On a gray Thursday, I searched and contacted new suppliers for USB flip card to find a cheapest price in the UK market and to find supplier that accept more than one design in the same order. What is more?, I have skeatch some prototypes of the press kit as below:
This week’s contribution in group work. February 11, 2010
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My contribution in our Mango Media for this week is structuring website contents for Astrid to design and interface. I have spent 1-2 hours to develop it from our business and feasibility report and our competitors’ site. The rough content is showed below: (Andreea has some comments in red)
- Mango Media Site Map
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- About us
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- Mango Media is a young-innovative media company who provides a consulting service as well as digital press kits for music artists who seek industry standard promotion. The inspiration for the idea comes from our common background and passion for music. Since our team consists of emerging artists we identified the need for new, innovative and also highly illustrative promotion methods. (love it!)
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- Our services
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- The service includes
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- Artist logo design, cover design. (imaging- conceptualizing the image)
- Artist biography, press content (creative writing).
- Artist consulting, promotion strategy.
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- The tangible product includes the actual press kit in digital or printed format. In some cases the content will we interactive, operating on a Flash platform.
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- Print press kit : our full packages includes:
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- a professionally designed cover with your logo or photo,
- a cover letter of introduction,
- Band or Artist biography,
- a professional 8 x 10 black and white glossy promotional photo,
- media feature articles and press releases, album reviews and quote sheet,
- your full length extended play, or professionally recorded demo CD, an industry CD-one sheet,
- A business card and professionally labeled envelope.
- The supplies needed are heavy stock paper, portfolio cover, large envelope, address labels, business cards, and your 8 x 10 glossy photo. Now here’s how to go about putting the print press kit together.
- A short demo CD with cover.
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- Wallet Flash credit card-sized USB memory
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It is an eye-catching, durable, promotional gadget. A new way to present an artist’s image and musical vision. The Electronic Press Kit Card (EPK Card) includes discography, biography, album cover, band galleries and demo songs. It is an ingenious item that serves many purposes: to store information and act as a mobile presentation that is easily accessible (just open the wallet, and it’s there, plug in any computer, runs on all operating systems), handy, light and big enough not to lose easily, plus the logo and background image will make the artist easily recognizable.
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- USB flash EPK.
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We can customize the USB shape so as to imprint artist symbols and characters or something related to he artist that fans would appreciate.
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- Portfolio
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- Clients (This link could be our clients’ work eg. uploaded songs, clips etc..with a short description of them)
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- Reference: http://uvumi.com/
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- I love everything so far and will complete the clients section shortly!
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- Contact
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- Eg. “If you are interested in our services, please send an email with links to any of your myspace/facebook/twitter pages and a bit of information about you to: Info.mangomedia.@googlemail.com”
Natural Born Leader or Programmed Leader? February 11, 2010
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What if we have our country's leader like these?
The picture above showed two famous robots were able to conduct a symphony orchestra. Whereas leadership can programmed into the robot. What about a human? Can leadership be taught? or Do we have to born again with a leadership instinct?
From the first week of semester two, we have learned concepts, theories and kinds of leadership through group acting and presentation. These methods of teaching, at first, it seemed to me that why didn’t we have a proper lecture?, why do we have to play a drama and how it’s related to the leadership? However, at the end, I realized that it’s not only the way to present our understanding of varied characteristic of leadership, but it’s the way to show and learn about creative leadership since we were given a “creative” task and therefore we had varied characteristic of creative leadership in each group. For last week’s creative leadership program, Piers’ workshop demonstrated an issue of creative leadership by simplified it to various activities. For example, it was an effective way to learn about hierarchy in a group work by giving cards which were a symbolic of hierarchy to students to act as a position they were given in the cards.
Next week we will have Piers’ class again and I think I will develop some ideas for the assignment. Right now I believed that leadership “skills” can be developed but not everyone can be programmed to be a leader.
