Camp is officially cancelled.

Just a small note in case any of you didn't know about it...

The camp is officially cancelled.

Thank you for all your efforts and time you've put in.

Songs for Camp

The songs are in - mostly found by me. 'Tong hua' isn't in the list - sorry Milli, I saw it after I sent the file out - and we still need more Mandarin Pop songs.

Here's what we have, though. Download it to have a look-see, and keep it as a back-up just in case anyone needs to print anything.

- Mei Poh

Help Needed

Got a few words from Jimmy, and it's nothing pretty.

Judging by the profiles of the people signing up, almost none of them can play an instrument.

Scream.

But we can't turn our customers away.

So, here's the Emergency Contingency Plan that we MUST put into action:

- Compile a list of songs that are popular/catchy, can be played by a band, and contain only 3 chords, with the maximum of 4 chords.
NOTE: We must consider all genres. So far, I've looked into Maroon 5's 'She Will Be Loved', Snow Patrol's 'Chasing Cars', and One Republic's 'Apologize' (but the chords are hard to play). We need more pop: Mandarin Pop, J Pop even, K Pop if anyone's up to it, and some of the English Pop side that I may not be familiar with.

- For every song, provide chord charts, score and lyrics.

- Prepare the backup band that will play behind the 'band' if need be. Most likely MadHatter (as Mandric was with me and Jimmy spoke to him too) AND we may need to pull in DMATers to help us. (CCA points!) I foresee that this will have to be implemented, as there will be groups of 5 singers and no band.


I can't do this on my own. It's a LOT of work. So, it's time to distribute the workload!

Mandric will help us, as it's his band that may help us out. Vera, we need to find people to just get the songs and rake up existing chord charts, scores and so on and so forth. Anyone that has music scores, charts, leadsheets, whatever, we need to find them.

But, two people aren't enough. We need more people - not necessarily people involved with the camp - to help us. And maybe give a food voucher or something as a reward (XD).


Helphelphelp, it's only 3 weeks away!

Meeting with Jimmy on Wed 12pm

Just a few things to update:

1. We shouldn't have any problems getting CCA points for helpers. Number of points depends on the number of hours helped out. Zaki, please send me the student ID (admin number), full name as well as the number of hours for helpers. Try to get back to me by Monday? Committee members can be given points too! :)

2. In regards of putting up posters in our own Poly, we have to go to each school to ask them for permission (eg. DMIT, SD, SB). Sly will settle SD since it's his sch. The rest, we'll have to do. Targetting to complete this by Wed latest.

3. No sponsors have replied.

4. Mei Poh to give Jimmy a concrete program by next week, with planning for talentime schedule and when KKJ as well as Madhatter will play. Mei Poh, please let me scan through by Tuesday. Thanks.

5. We have to do a TV interview next wed for promotion also. Details will be given nearer to the date. It should be after the meeting. I am looking at Milli and Zaki to be with me for the interview. They need the rockers vibe people. I just got to know this today.

6. Last one, please update me with what you have done for promotions or anything you've done for the past week. I need to update Jimmy with our progress. I am looking at sending him an email latest by tml night, so you know your deadline huh... =P

Meeting minutes

1. Contact independent schools and ITEs (name list to be out by tml - Vera)

2. Put our posters and leaflets at music stores (By Left has agreed, other store names to be out by tml - Pei Ling)

3. Put our posters and leaflets at jamming studios (names to be out by tml - Zaki, Milli)

4. Contacting friends, friends' friends. (everyone pls help out)

5. Messaging all the members of music groups found on facebook. (Everyone pls help out whenever you can, update the blog whenever you contact a group so that we will not contact the group again)

6. MP, can you contact the music societies that you know? Thanks

Ok, let's all aim to get at least 2 people each by this week. Let's work hard together!

leaflets!

hey guys... tak a look at the leaflets... =) dis will be sent for printing by today! hahah so any changes, post it asap... =))

Meeting with Jimmy

• Confirmed meeting with Jimmy every Wed at 12pm. Meet outside his office.
• we can get the school to help us print leaflets and posters, just need to give them the soft copy (Sylvester to follow up)
• Possibility of combining our last performing day with Carmen's concert event. Still in the process of discussing (Vera to follow up)
• Detailed report of marketing process - schools we've contacted and the results (Vera)
• Schools that we are targetting next (Vera by today)
• Contacts for schools (Mei Poh to give to Vera)
• Names of sponsors that we need to look for (Vera by today)
• Confirmed venues - logistics (Vera by today)

Jimmy will tell us about the ETDF Seed fund on next wed meeting. We might be able to get a $3000 if we have a very good business report.

Things that are first on list now:

1. Date of camp (also dependent on carmen now)
2. Price of camp
3. Also need you guys to help call up your respective schools to check on the progress. we've got to push the marketing.

Zaki, can you arrange a meeting with every committee in? Also a meeting with the facilitators. Any day before the meeting with Jimmy on Wed next week.

POSTER

Heya guys... Out from the PC is the latest NGR poster.. Check it out, anything let me noe asap as well..

For now, i feel the description of the bands seems loooooong... hmm.. let me noe ur comments...

thanks..

Cheers,

Sly

We better hurry, here's the email draft!

Dear Ms Jane Tan,

Band Camp for Secondary School Musicians

Singapore Polytechnic is running a camp for secondary school students who are in bands, interested to be in a band, or interested to experience the band experience. We would like to promote this event in your school, and would like to know if the school is interested to promote this to their students.

We have posters to promote the event, providing details of the camp. In brief, the camp will be held at Singapore Polytechnic, and for 5 days they will experience and learn about how a band functions together as they play a piece on stage. The final day would be the band's performance onstage to their first audience. The price of the camp would be $250.

If the school agrees to promote the event, we are willing to send down a representative to promote and present the camp with you, if need be. We will also go into further detail about the camp.

(On a personal note, I as an alumni of St. Margaret's Secondary think that this would be great for girls who would like to play in chapel as a band, or play for talent time. I recall such class and student bands existing, and they played enthusiastically. I think there may be more like my peers still in the school, and this would be great for them.)

Please contact our marketing representative, Amelia, at verakyt@gmail.com or millidizzy8979@yahoo.com.sg. I can be contacted at 91375968, and will forward queries to Amelia.

Thank you for your attention.

Leong Mei Poh
Committee Member, the Next Gen Rockers Camp




(P.s. Guys, don't copy and paste this wholesale! Put your name in it! And Milli, it would be better if you put your number in. ;) )

That Email to send out to schools

I know some of us may not have sent out the email to some schools, or some schools that you've sent the email to hasn't replied after a while.

I haven't sent mine (Sorry!) But, I had been drafting things out and realized that there are points left unclear.

I talked to Vera, and she asked me if I could draft a letter, based on these points:

- SP is holding a music band camp! (Run by us, but we're not saying that yet.)

-We would like to know if the school's interested to promote this event to its students.

-If there are any queries, contact Amelia/Milli (which name to use?) at 395u0434utu...

However, I have some things I want to make clear. I think I should let you all in this decision-making, as this would affect the schools' views of us. I still have a few things unclear:

- Should we include the promotional prices into the email? (Early-bird, Group registration)

- That new poster. Once we have a confirmed design and the email's not out yet, can we add it in?

- I wonder if we should tell the school of how we're related (only useful if you were from that school before)


Now here's where you come in. What else did I miss out?

At the end of the day, a draft email will be published here (most likely), and you can copy and paste it into Hotmail, Gmail, whatever you use, and send. Makes the job slightly easier.

Regards,
Mabel

Updated Poster!

Hey guys... This is the latest Poster inclusive of Madhatter n KKJ photos!!

With not much comments about the logo, i assume the logo concept is ok so i jus wen on using the same logo... The format of the poster will be roughly like this..

Alright guys.. time for the final rush~~!!

Good luck... or maybe lucks~~~ we'll need lots of them...

Bring in the comments!!!

And also, Bring in the campers!!! LOL!! good luck!

Cheers,

Sly

We need to discuss...

hi guys... while sly is touching up the t-shirt design and etc... There's a few things i think we need to discuss.

1.)The color of the t-shirt.

2.)The material of the t-shirt.

I just called and sent the draft design to a t-shirt printing company and they asked about shirt materials we want. 

He said that our design is a one color tone fading out and request that we give him the pantone color code to prevent printing the wrong color. 

http://www.kb3kai.com/pantone-colors.php

Regarding the materials,

there is(list according to the price of the material):

1. Single knit a.k.a normal t-shirt material(The material is thin thus suitable for outdoor activities.)

• Type of cutting: Round neck

2. Dry Fit (suitable for outdoor activities as it absorb sweat.)

• Description from a googled website: "Dry fit (different manufacturers call it different things; Nike calls it FitDry) wicks away the moisture from your body. When you are done with a run or a kickboxing class or a stint on the eliptical machine, your dry fit shirt will by, well, dry." 
• Type of cutting: Round neck or Polo tee

3. Polo tee (It's a good material as it is thick in a way that it keeps you warm.

There's also ladies and men cutting which we need to take note of. Ladies cutting will be slimmer compared to mens'. Another cutting is straight cut which is unisexual. 

We need to provide them with the size too. 

For me, i'm thinking black for the shirt, i like the black shirt design, for the material Single knit a.k.a normal t-shirt material as it's cheaper and i wonder how many of them will continue wearing them after the camp... 

On the side note, they'll need around 1 month to get all the printings done...

I'll stop my rambling for now...

cheers!!!

original Logo design

heya guys... i forgot to post up... dis is the original logo design...

cheers,

sly

Shirt Design With LOGO!

hey guys... this is the 1st draft shirt design... the logo is up... do give me feedbacks den i change asap.. the logo is gonna be used for the poster as well.. =))

the logo is done without a tablet so do forgive me... had no access to wacomm tablets while i was doing the logo... lol.. will fine tune it asap as well...

cheers,

Sly

Updates

Well, we'll put all our updates of the promotions to the secondary school here.

Further thoughts from Jimmy

Concerning KKJ's engagement: my advice is to engage them not just as performers but also as guest speakers- so that they do not just come and perform a set on stage but also take the time to talk to your participants and share some of their tips and experiences. Definitely also answer questions from audience. Please make sure you communicate this clearly to KKJ so that they know what to expect- audience numbers for eg may be smaller than what they are expecting.
Make sure your gig contract with them is clear on these points:)

Thoughts from Jimmy

Ok-first off- well done for securing KKJ as guests for the music camp. Good job. Please make sure to confirm them by getting them to sign a basic contract- Year 3s should know how to draft a simple one right?

Also, good to see your 1st wave of schools to market to- please activate and take steps to implement the marketing asap- I expect to see significant results by 14th Sep- do report as and when you receive any updates:)

Your early bird and group discounts - has the committee discussed this - is it finalised? Is it attractive enough?

Sponsors- any thoughts of including the other instrument dealers such as Swee Lee and Citymusic? Geoff's studio Resonance Audio ( maybe they can sponsor recording studio hours?)
Also, can one of you come up with a draft sponsorship letter which should state what your camp is about, the fact that secondary students are your target audience, the numbers expected and more importantly thenumber of schools you are intending to market to, some of the collaterals you will be producing eg posters, banners, T-shirts, concert etc at/on which sponsors can place their logos, tiers of sponsors , what you are requesting from sponsors eg cash, prizes ( eg instruments), expertise ( eg guest speakers). Do mention that you have already secured KKJ as guest band. Please do this draft so that I can check it for you soon.
The sponsorship letter should go out by mid Sep too.

Otherwise, well done so far

1 question- why will Mei Poh not be present at the camp?

18th Aug meeting minutes

Meeting started: 12.30pm
Present: all
Late: Zaki, Amelia, Pei Ling (pls do not be late the next time)

1.Pricing decisions

Early bird
Group: $1100, $220 per person
Individual: $225 per person

Normal
Group: $1200, $240 per person
Individual: $250


2. List of sponsors to approach

Music schools
- Yamaha
- Cristofori
- SOMA

Instrument companies
- THOH Music

A&R Companies
- Ocean Butterfly
- Lee Wei Song
- Sony BMG
- Universal
- Warner Music

Music Related
- Creative
- Bang and Olufsen

Recording Studios
- Pavane


3. First wave of schools

- Pasir Ris Crest Sec Sch (Pei Ling)
- St. Margaret’s Sec Sch (Mei Poh)
- Dunearn Sec Sch (Zaki)
- Clementi Town Sec Sch (Vera)
- Chung Cheng High (Main) (Sly)
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (Sly)
- Choa Chu Kang Sec Sch (Zaki)
- New Town Sec Sch (Vera)
- Dunman High Sch (Sly)
- Bukit Batok Sec Sch (Vera)
- Innova JC (Milli)
- Catholic JC (Milli)
- Temasek JC (Milli)
- St. Andrew’s JC (Mei Poh)


4. Marketing timeline

- Everything to be done by 14 September
- To contact schools, provide them with publicity materials and registration forms


5. Guest bands

Confirmed – MadHatter, King Kong Jane ($500)
Can approach – West Grand Boulevard, Electrico, Milubing, Jimmy, Split

Good news!

King Kong Jane has agreed to perform for the talentime!
They are charging 500 bucks for a 30 to 45 minutes slot!

Meeting minutes + Agenda for meeting on Monday

14 Aug Meeting with Jimmy 1pm

Present: Vera, Sly, Zaki, Amelia, Pei Ling
Absent: Mei Poh

Finalised concept of poster
Confirmed camp name - Next Gen Rockers: Let the Music Begin!
Changes – Buffet dinner cancelled, money to be used to invite guest bands


Actions to be taken

Vera: List of companies to approach for sponsorship
List of guest bands approached / to approach
Sly: List of first-wave target schools (get everyone to help you by chipping in)
Marketing strategy and timeline (also need to help of everyone)
P.L.: List of venues – to consider using 1st and 5th floor of T20


Things to consider

Pricing decisions – are we going to have early bird/group discounts?
Drafting a standard sponsorship request letter


To be discussed on Monday (same time?)

1. Pricing decisions
2. Companies to approach, what sponsorship package to give them
3. Guest bands names
4. Target schools
5. Marketing strategy and timeline

Programme Overview

Jimmy came up with a tentative abstract for the camp. I am replacing his tentative camp name with the one we settled on.

Dreaming of forming your own band?
Thinking of being discovered through a music contest?
Well, wait no more 'cos Next Gen Rockers: Let the Music Begin! will let you experience what it's like to play in a rock/pop band and equip you with the knowledge and information you need to succeed in competitions.
Come spend 5 days at Singapore Polytechnic to improve your musicianship and have the time of your life!

Now...we need to re-word this to make it more succinct and attractive. So let the ideas come, people! Hope to see some responses soon, as this needs to be confirmed by TOMMOROW!!! Post in comments BY TODAY!!

love!

the final one i hope?

hahahah this is the one tt i spent the most time on.. gotta get the layout n colour tones rite.. hmm... the only thing i dislike now is the logo~ but i cant think of any.. loL~ im will come up with it asap.. so sorry bout the delay but tak a look at the overall poster and throw in the fire!! lol~~ i'll edit it asap..

cheers, sly

updated poster

err.. guys these is the updated poster... but no camp names given yet?1 if not by tml nite, i will have to do it myself lo.. the logo will be added in too.. currently, the camp details like venue and date is added but stil haven gotten a reply whether to add in the price anot...

Cheers,
Sly

Meeting minutes

11 Aug, 6.15pm

Present: Vera, Mei Poh, Zaki, Sly, Amelia, Pei Ling

Rules and regulations, corporate style!

1. Late-coming: penalty is a fine of $1 to each person there before you for every 5 minute slot
2. Missing submission deadlines: warning after first offence, sacked from committee after second offence
3. Attendance at meetings: committee members to RSVP within the day the date of next meeting is set, so alternate dates can be arranged
4. No-show at meetings: acceptable if Vera is informed prior to commencement of meeting, otherwise, warning after first offence, sacked from committee after second
5. During term: Meetings fixed every Monday 6pm
6. Camp-matters correspondence: all emails to be Cc-ed to Vera
7. Sub-committee meetings: minutes to be forwarded to Vera

Allocation of profit

• Vera: 25%
  Everyone else: 15%

Roles

• Everyone was reminded of their roles
• Vera needs to find a suitable assistant for camp operations management, most likely someone with camp management experience
• Mei Poh will not be present during camp duration: Zaki should not allocate her any camp duties

New poster

hey guys!!! new poster!!!!! hahahah =) i will add in the camp details after the editing... any suggestions gotta update quickly!!! =)

Cheers,

Sly

7th Aug meeting with jimmy

Present: Vera, Sylvester, Mei Poh, Pei Ling, Zaki, Amelia
Absent: Jonadab (SParks preparation)

Okay, I'm going to group what was said today into a few different categories for easy digestion.

1. Going over costs and budget

- Camp tee: Design needs to be finalised so that a printing quote can be obtained (Sly to act)
- Publication materials i.e. brochures, posters, banner (?): More concrete figures about each type required, further breaking down of costs (Pei Ling to act?)
- Food: Could the buffet be scrapped to accomodate other costs?
- Prizes: Sponsorships should be sought (Who should work with Vera regarding sponsorships?)
- Targeted $4800 profit: How should it be split, if at all? Decision was made not to give the money to the school.

2. Programme
- Proposed dates of 8th - 12th Dec: ensure that secondary school students are generally not occupied

3. Marketing
- Teacher's networking: Jimmy mentioned that SP will be taking this opportunity to let secondary school teachers know what SP has in store for their graduates over the holidays. Action: Publicity material required to 'sell' the camp to these teachers
- Liaison with secondary schools (Mei Poh has contact list)
- Bear in mind necessity to target at least 10 schools
- What is the time frame for marketing? i.e. begin after their prelim exams?
- Do certain schools have regulations regarding imposition of publicity materials? i.e. size of posters

4. Branding
- Next Gen: Is this sufficient branding? Should we consider something more music-related?
- Tagline: 'Bond with Music' not so suitable. Need to consider something more related to the band, songwriting and performance nature of the camp

5. Guests performers/speakers
- Who can we approach? Radio personalities, production experts?
- Relatively well-known local bands

6. Sponsorship
- Raised possibility of sponsorship packages - what can we offer?
- Need to think of ways to reach out to more students so that advertising becomes more attractive
- Yamaha was suggested as a possible sponsor: If we can negotiate successfully with them, we may have prizes and some Yamaha personnel may even be guest speakers
- Who else?

7. Next Meeting: 14th August, 1pm
- Finalised poster design
- Branding: Confirmed camp name and taglines
- Proposed sponsorship packages
- List of facilitators

LOVE,
ME

Meeting tml with Jimmy at 1pm

Hi guys, just here to remind you guys that there's a meeting with Jimmy tml at 1pm.

The agenda:
1. Show him the firm up camp program
2. Show him the camp cost
3. Let him know the registration cost
4. Let him know the date of the camp
5. Show him the brochures as well as tagline and camp name

I will sent you guys everything by tml morning. I'll probably need the whole night to cost out everything. Thus, Pei Ling, please send me the cost asap. Latest by 12am. Mei Poh, send me the program too :)

Also, a side note: I am currently looking for sponsors, any company that you guys would like to suggest? Apple is out already cos they don't seem to sponsor for Singapore events.

Would like to hear from you guys soon, either through the comments box, my email, my phone or face to face :)
No excuses for not commenting now :)

edited of classy poster~

hahahah guys, this is so random.. jus took the suggestions of vera den i jus edited the poster... tak a look... =p

new poster design

hi guys... this one's a rather rough one.. jsu wante to illustrate the feel i wanted to add in.. hahaha

this is a poster more towards the classy side... =p or wadeva we call it.. hahaha... will be editing it more if its chosen.. hahaha...

i meant this poster to be very clean n classy so nothin much in the background except for a violin n some musical notes...

the main focus is targeted on the camp details and the camp name.

Cheers~

Sly

alternate designs of posters

Hi Guys,

i've been informed that i have to come up with another 2 or 3 designs for the posters to choose from so i would like u guys to give me some comments about the colour choice of the posters...

do give me a range of colours or better, a few colour combination... i would then go through colour theory n come up with the remaining posters...

i need to have the comfirmed taglines oso... And the theme of the posters would probably revolve around performance or dreams about performing... yea.. so pls give me and update asap...

if there's any other comments or additional opinions about the current poster, pls do give me an update as well... i will try to complete the posters by the next meeting with jimmy if possible, so do give me an update soon~
thanks...


cheers,
Sly~

Slight change of roles

I forgot to post abt this for the last meeting minutes.
Jonadab is going to help out as program assistant instead of HR head. So now, ZAki is handling it on his own! Cheers!

Poster Designs

Hi guys~ this is my first post here!! hahaha... i have a few random sketch designs for the music camp posters.. so do give some comments on the color theme, the taglines and any other improvements..

And i'll send the posters to all of our emails, so u guys can take a closer look... i'm afraid that the pics might not be clear in blogger.... =)

Cheers,

Sylvester

Meeting minutes

Program:
- scrap the recording, put in amazing race
- scrap instrument techniques
- amazing race (day 2)

Planning:
- plan for worst case scenerios
- videographers on the last day (talentime)
- mock run (early august - probably a fri after 3pm)

Update on meeting

Ok. Just for updates.

There will be a teachers' seminar held in end august and it will most likely be held in SP.
So the school is suggesting that we come out with everything finalised to be marketed to the teachers/schools that day.

Which means:
1. we need to firm up our program by mid august
2. the marketing brochures should be out by then

As for the other things, I have sent it to you guys by email. So kindly take a look:)

Things that are confirmed

I shall update the meeting minutes by this weekend as I need time to digest and plan out the milestones and other things.


But here are a few things confirmed for now. So kindly take note.

1. There will be a meeting next Monday (21.7.08) at 12pm sharp. So be there on time as our dear yr ones have another class at 1pm. The agenda for that day will be on the program for the camp. Mei Poh will be hosting the meeting. Mei Poh the time is yours! :)

2. Logistics: I need to hear from you guys today, next monday (21.7.08) and the friday (25.7.08). Just send me an email today and I will see you guys after the meeting on monday.

3. HR: I need to see things moving too. Update me on Monday.

I'll update the rest by end of the week. Let us work towards our goal together! :)

Reminder: Meeting with Jimmy tml

Hey guys, pls be reminded about the meeting with Jimmy tml after songwriting class at 12 plus.

Compulsory for Mable and Pei Ling. I will prepare the materials. Jon and Zaki are invited to be there too so that I don't need to do another meeting just to tell you guys about it. Thanks.

my two pence!

re: day 5

more time for briefing, less time for 1st run/walk-through
why not groups receive burned copies during lunch? they may be distracted during the first soundcheck, especially if it's a new experience.
3 hrs for rehearsal - two rehearsals?
who is doing the background display (i.e. ppt) for the talentime?


in general
- no probs with the rest of the days' programmes, just that with vera proposing a 9am-9pm programme, some aspects can afford to be lengthened, or new things introduced. so a necessity now may be to determine soon if this change is going to be made.

CAMP LE MOOOSIQUE

this is amelia using jon's account.

HAHA.

this could be retarded. :p

Roles of Everyone

Just to clear out all the roles of everyone:

Mei Poh - Program planning Head
Pei Ling - Logistic planning Head
Zaki - HR Head and logistic planning Assistant
Amelia - Secretary cum Admin cum Treasurer Assistant
Jonadab - Marketing and promotions planning Head
(Sly will be helping you with the design part but I am putting you as the head so tt you can coordinate everyone. You will need to work closely with the Admin, Treasurer and the business side, so you are better at doing this job than Sly. Cos you see us more. hee...)
Myself - Project Manager cum Business planning head cum Treasurer

Everyone happy with this? Do feedback to me about your roles alright! :)

Noooo...

Vera bumped up the deadline till the weekend! That makes it... this Sunday the latest!



Everybody, start thinking!

What we envision of the camp

Ok... Just a few things to let you know.

The camp will be a talentime camp in which campers come and form up groups to perform in the camp. They may or may not know each other before the camp.

The objective of the camp will be a preparation for them to take part in future talentimes. We would cover the things which they need to know when performing. What are the dos and don'ts. What are the techniques that can be used. What can they do to make the performance better.

Time to work!

Hey all! Time to get working! I'm afraid we have to start moving - Vera tapped me on the shoulder and suggested that we start moving.

But first, we need a plan. Correction, we HAVE a plan. (All the meetings you guys had before I came in mustmustmust have amounted to something!)

I'm making the draft of the camp programme as we speak. What I need to know is this:

- What have you guys on your mind for the camp? E.g. a bass-only class, a band come down and perform for the campers, a rockout jamming session...

(Note: I do see that there are some activities noted below. I've taken them into account, but I want to know what you guys have in mind. Vera wouldn't mind you all posting your own suggestions, I'm sure of that. ;) )

How to reply: Reply via comments to this post, put up your own blog post, OR email me/Vera! mei.poh.leong@gmail.com

I hope to have all suggestions in by next Wednesday. Just put in all suggestions - don't think about all the logistics just yet. We can cover that in a meeting in the near future. ;)

Hope to hear from you guys!

Mei Poh

explaining..

so basically the song was stuck in my head, so i decided to look up what this 'syndrome' really was. turns out that it's gotta do with abductees/hostages developing a sense of attachment to their captors.

in a morbid sense, isn't that what a camp is? haha. campers loving the facils who keep them there :p

it's a tad random and abstract, but yeah. (:

sham

so i was reading up about the stockhom syndrome. gosh, it's kinda scary.

and so the song by muse finally sort of made sense to me.

look to the stars
let hope burn in your eyes
and we'll love
and we'll hope
and we'll die
all to no avail
all to no avail

this is the last time I'll abandon you
and this is the last time I'll forget you
I wish I could

Hi, Fellow Managers!

I'm Mei Poh, the one who was missing in action for the first meeting. Was going about another assignment, but I've joined in for POD as well.

A formal introduction should be made, I guess. I've worked on a similar project to Vera's during my Second Year, but my camp never took flight.
Now that we've moved on to Year 3 and the much-more-serious POD, I hope to implement what I've learned through my experience in BuMs and ITP (I worked in an enrichment company, creating and planning a digital music camp for schools that is ongoing this June) with you all to make our camp a success.

Hope to see you all in the next meeting. Vera, please remind me! I don't want to miss it like the last time!

Thanks for the minutes!

To add on, mei poh will most likely be the main program planning person.

And for now, zaki will help with the logistics. Will try to help too...
But I'll like pei ling to do most of the things as she needs to qualify it for her POD.

I am thinking of the possibility of letting pei ling do the stage managing cos it's like the thing she wanna do... Dunno whether it's possible. Will update you guys on our next meeting.

Please let me know the days and dates that you guys are free this week and next so that I can come out with our next meeting date.

Do use this blog to throw in ideas that you have along the way and help each other out. I don't mind you guys discussing on this blog ;)

2nd june meeting

okay, i'll split this up into a couple of categories regarding what was discussed yesterday!

committee roles (so far)

overall head of project: vera (duh, hahaha)
programme and research: jonadab
logistics: pei ling
human resource: zaki
admin: amelia

outstanding roles: marketing/publicity, treasurer

role descriptions

programme and research

- to look up similar camps and see how those may influence the programme of this one
- come up with fixed plans
- others: would mei poh be taking over the main programme duties?

logistics

- to 'inventorise' equipment available for the camp
- based on programme needs, scout for suitable venues
- liaise with appropriate personnel to make venues/equipment available
- others: food arrangements, amazing race
- who else will assist pei ling?

human resource

- mainly dealing with the helpers and group leaders
- allocation of helpers during various parts of the programme

admin

- i don't think it requires a description. haha.

marketing/publicity

- how to publicise camp
- posters
- come up with a tagline i.e. camp focus in a statement
- make things SO ATTRACTIVE people want to pay
- try to make profit after factoring costs

treasurer

- funds management

right, at the moment there are some ideas we can incorporate into the programme

1. how to choose the right song for performance
2. stage movements
3. song arrangement
4. harmony
5. mic techniques
6. studio recording tips

money matters as it stands
1. helpers paid $4/hr?
2. committee members lump sum of $200-$300? (if $7/hr, then it is around $315)
3. sponsorship for talentime prizes (who is going to neg. for sponsorships?)

proposed dates
1. camp itself - monday to friday, dec 1-5
2. pre camp for helpers/group leaders - end november

next meeting; end of this week and/or next week

to accomplish then: programme and camp focus, finalise committee maybe?

haha alright this took way too long to neaten up from whatever i wrote yesterday. vera, add on anything if you must!
lovelove(:

Reminder for tml's meeting!

Tml's meeting at 4pm yeah.
Pei Ling and Mei Poh said they will be coming too.

Let's pray that something good comes out tml!

Cheers!

Things to think about before meeting

1. how much to pay everyone (committee, helpers, trainers, etc.) such that we still earn money
2. how much campers pay
3. how many helpers and trainers are we getting
4. program of camp (we need to make it more enriching. we can put it into our amazing race and do a "learn through play" thing or really hold a class)
5. dates for camp
6. cost of camp
7. roles of everyone in the committee (tell me what you can do and will like to do)
8. camp details and focus

*those in yellow are what we have to definitely get by end of meeting. The others are just there to fill up your mind... Haas...

Just to warn you guys, I'll be serious during meetings once the year 3s are included. I can play with you guys and still work, but not with them. I need to let them know that they have to do their thing. We'll play before and after meetings ok. =)

Yeah! Someone to do minutes! HAHAH

Haas. You forgot to write in the time for the days! Haas...

I'll just add on:
Day 1 to 4 - 9am to 6pm
Day 5 - 9am to 10pm

Correct me if I'm wrong.
And thanks for the meeting minutes!

2nd meeting

main agenda: camp schedule

participants (expected 50-60) to be split into groups of about 10, 2 facils each

Day one
Icebreakers and introductions
Classroom/studio tour
Garageband tutorial
Group discussion for day 5

Day two
Amazing race
Group discussion for day 5

Day three
Rehearsal
Recording (2 hrs/group)

Day four
Recording
Soundcheck for day 5

Day five
Recording
Prep for talentime
Talentime

the rough plan as discussed is as above.

other details mentioned:

- may need indemnity forms participants to get clearance from school to hold amazing race outside school compounds
- re: talentime performance, each group to be alloted 5-10min for performance (i.e. most prob one song)
- logistical requirements: rostering of rehearsals and recording time slots (i.e. need to book studio(s)/moberly)
- to KIV: how to incorporate live sound experience


*phew*, that was lengthy! but i think that's all for now. vera, apologies if i've missed out anything yeah?

<3,
me

just a thought

5 days
0930 to 1700 for days 1-4,

1000 to 2130 for day 5

one day for outdoor activities

one slot for icebreakers

one afternoon for outdoor activities?

talentime held on day 5 1900 - 2130

workshops/rehearsal/planning time

Things discussed on the first meeting

1. Camp focus: Talentime
2. Target audience: secondary school (preferably O level leavers)
3. Camp requirement: with music background a must
4. If day camp: 5 days
5. Targetting about 40 to 60 pax
6. Food budget: ~$4/pax per day

To discuss next meeting:
- program schedule

Welcome to our blog!

Hey guys,

Well, from now, all informations, ideas, meeting minutes will all be on this blog, even our exchanges of ideas can be here!

This blog is ours and ours only! This is to facilitate the exchanges of ideas, updates of meetings, etc, within our group. Also, you can have whatever information you need as long as you have the internet.

Well, this are all the nicey words. Bad news is, YOU GET TO WORK EVERYWHERE WITH INTERNET CONNECTIVITY!!! HAHAHA... I'm evil... *evil smile*

Anyway, do make good use of this blog... Spam it with ideas... May creativity juices flow!