Weekly Reflection 2

This week was a very productive week for me and my senior project. I got a lot accomplished. Even though I did get a lot of things done everything did not go as planned or turn out like I expected it to. I am perfectly ok with my plans not going the way I expected them to. My original plan was to record the last four songs that I had hoped to be on the Mix-Tape but instead I only got  two done. I only finished two songs but I spent my time doing other productive things involving my music. 

This week was spent recording and practicing. Practicing and preparing for a concert that I am putting together by myself with the help of very few. The concert that I am coordinating is a lot of work. It is a lot of work but its fun as well.  Performing live is something that I have never done before. I am looking forward to performing in font of a live audience. The concert as of right now is going to be held in the Wise. Its not determined  inside or out yet. My peers and I thought it would be amazing if we had the concert outside. Due to the thought of rain we put that thought on hold to be on the safe side. 

There is a lot of work that goes into planning an event. This week I got the chance to see this fist hand. I got a chance to witness Proctor’s ensemble concert. Bill Whitman planed everything. For him to plan everything the way he set things up had to take major pre planning. I know this because of what I am experiencing. There is a lot of work done behind the scenes of events like live performances. Sound would be a problem with us. Getting everything set up and working properly is what I am most concerned about. Every one who plans on performing has minimal experience with setting up for a live show. I decided it would be best if I called upon the man with more experience Jacob Hines. Hines would make things easy for us. There is a slight problem that we have with renting out Hines for our show though. He might night be available. Hines have to do booth work for the upcoming musical on the same night as our performance. I am going to problem solve and how work my way around this slight problem that we have.

This week I’ve learned that making plans are important so you can have a guide to follow. Guide lines and rubrics does nothing but help you in the long run. Even if you make a plan and it doesn't go accordantly, It is better that you still have that initial plan as a blue print. In addition to planning everything in advance I learned how much work it takes to plan a big event. 

Moving forward  this week I plan to wrap one or two songs on the Mix-tape an be done with the recording of Terrell Brown. In addition to completing my Mix-Tape I plan on having some one follow me around in the studio for a little while with a video camera recording what I do in the studio. I would love to to do this because I would like to give a visual to everyone reading this blog on the entire operation.