Norman Music Festival preperation

Norman Music Festival preperation week was crazy. Considering how busy we were, I am just now getting around to blogging about everything that has been going on. Last week (April 12-16) most of my dusties consisted of band sheets and tweets. I probably made a band sheet that was about 4-5 pages long while having to make preperation for tweets during the music festival. Oh, which ended up being around 5 pages! We had to get every bands performing time and where they performed into a tweet, then set up the tweet to where it would automatically show up when it was time to play. It's a good idea, but just really time consuming.

Amanda and I pretty much all week posted signs and posters on main street stores. It was nice to meet people who were going to be affected by the festival. Most were nice, others didn't want to put stuff on their windows. We also went back on Friday and posted maps of the stages so people would be able to find where they were going at all times. I couldn't believe how many people were excited about the festival. I knew it was a big event, just not this big.

I got to meet a lot of the bands before the festival because some would stop by the office to drop off checks and what not. It was nice to put a face on a band. I also got to deposit a $10,000 check to OEC for a band, that was a little scary.

Overall, last week was a good learning experience because I learned so many social networking skills. I got to make over 50 tweets about the festival. I also got to see how important it was to research bands/clients. I know in PR we are to research and find out more about the client through background checks and all so that we know what we are getting ourselves into, but this was very crucial in the real world. I found out what was going on and when bands were playing, learning more about the music festival than ever when it came around. We also had a meeting with the Mainsite crew to discuss our duties for the festival...this will be more in detail with my next blog. The meeting let me get to know the people I was going to be working with, making me mroe comfortable with who I was going to be aroung.

Hours Mon:12-4, Wed: 12-4, Fri: 10:30-5

Until next time...