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The four of us met up in a coffee shop, and assigned roles- mine is to book the venue by sending emails to the ones we picked from the waterbear list, as well as to book any studio and rehearsal space slots we will need throughout the process.

We also decided on the songs we would do, I suggested we pick one each at the meeting so we could focus on learning them and get straight into practising them the next time we met as a group.

Genre-wise we have decided on grunge/metal renditions of our four songs.

We agreed that we will film and edit together all our meetings to create music videos of our songs, to then play at our venue, most likely a pub with a projector and invite people to them. we also considered social media livestreams like on YouTube.

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Once apart I communicated with the group about timings for a rehearsal studio at smallpond at a time that would work for us all, and then booked one, meaning we can progress with practising our line up, and provide film material for our music videos.

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We attended the first rehearsal I booked. Unfortunately one of our band members was unable to attend, so we agreed to make sure they were at the next one.

We also realised that we would need to reduce our number of songs to three, as we only progressed with two songs in our first rehearsal. We realised it would take longer than we realised.

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I communicated with the group about our next rehearsal, one we would all attend, and then booked it promptly after we discussed times we were free.

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I also sent an email to the pub we'd chosen the admiral, and created professional correspondence...

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...whilst keeping the rest of my group in the loop.

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I attended a meeting at the Admiral to confirm our event. I asked for consent to record a bit of our conversation, demonstrating professionalism. I also communicated all that had been discussed at the meeting with the rest of my band who were unable to make it.

(this video contains: texts I sent to my group to let them know what had been discussed at the meeting, an audio summing the meeting up, dates we could choose for the event, and a voice note recording myself and the manager of the admiral discussing said possible dates)

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we attended our second rehearsal. the whole band was present which was beneficial.

Two members were late so me and the other band member decided to use the time practically and work on the songs regardless, this showed professionalism, since we used our time efficiently and showed our care for creating a successful project.

we decided to book a studio session which I was unable to do, as I'd booked too many sessions for this and other projects, so another member kindly stepped in to book it.

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we confirmed 3 songs would be enough, and hoped to record the two we knew the best (her music and she said, she said) in our first studio session.

because we were making music videos other band members with editing skills and cameras were going to film our studio and practise sessions to create the videos.

Everyone had clearly practised their individual parts as we were able to spend a lot of time playing together and tweaking our performance as a group.

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I told the manager of the Admiral I would confirm the dates we'd chosen promptly, which I did (26th November)

We attended our studio rehearsal. we recorded instruments separately in order to get the best takes. We filmed our time there to use for the music video.

We managed to record the audio we needed for Hyper Music, but realised we'd need more time to record the other songs (she said, she said and Neon)

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I told the manager of the Admiral I would confirm the dates we'd chosen promptly, which I did (26th November)

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Harris created our first music video for our cover of 'hyper music' for our event.

We decided that the time this had taken meant that we may not have time for more than 2 of our own tracks in the showcase.

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Alex H made a poster for our event, and put it up in Brighton

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Unfortunately, we realised we did not have enough material to host our event at the admiral on the 26th November, so we decided to postpone.

I sent an email to the bee's mouth as our next option, a pub, which I knew had a projector and hosted events.

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I also sent my audio, which I recorded at home with a microphone to make it as good quality and professional as possible to a band member to create our cover of 'Neon'.

Although we regrettably acted unprofessionally with the admiral (although not through a fault of our own) we communicated as a group and decided not only on another venue but also a back up plan that would rely on only our ban to put on, guaranteeing our event would go ahead whether we had a venue or a live stream.

By sending the audio I also provided us with a second song for our repertoire, whose video we are making an audio with visuals, to add a new artistic element and dynamic changes in our style to add to the watchability of our two music videos

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The bee's mouth replied, and unfortunately were unavailable for bookings until January. we didn't have any practise footage for neon, so we decided to only include our 'hyper music' video in our event. As for venue, we decided to go with the livestream on YouTube.

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we had a group call to organise our event on Thursday 7th December, where we divided roles.

My role was to promote the event on social media, once Alex H and Alex W had figured out how to work the livestream with screen sharing to allow us to host the event rather than simply play one music video after another.

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For the event, I promoted on our instagram, sharing the stories to my personal instagram to increase outreach, I also added to friends and family that for views they could watch our event and keep it on in the background, to help with views and interaction.

Above is a collation of all the promotion I did for the event; I sued pictures of us behind the scenes to add intimacy, as well as anticipation for the event. I also made it clear what time the event was, and made it easy for people to tune in and even add their music videos last minute, with an instagram post with where to post them as well a YouTube link people could follow directly to our livestream.

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Our event lasted around half an hour, we received audience participation with a last minute music video request. Overall we achieved our aim to host a free event showcasing local talent around Brighton, and with this request, it meant we'd met another aim, to create a networking space for the artists and others who attended.

The above video shows Alex H and I hosting; we made sure to speak about the last video to inspire audience engagement, and also wore fun sunglasses to add entertainment to the event.