My Losers Speech

Tuesday saw Richard and I pitch our business plan to a "Dragons-Den style panel" in the final stage of Leicester College's Freeth Cartwright sponsorship award 2011, competing against three other hopefuls.

Yes and as the title suggests, we were unfortunately unsuccessful in our bid. Our downfall was most likely our market research, but didn't help when the presentation took a turn for the worse when the video and audio samples integrated into the presentation, wouldn't play. So the panel got to watch all my actions on the big screen, while i frantically searched through my files for the original video and audio files. I wouldn't have minded, but rich and i purposefully went into the college early to make sure all would work with the presentation, which it did. However, it seemed that the media player used on the system was a totally different version and it made us look a bit daft.

Despite not winning and with all the troubles encountered during the presentation, there are lots to be taken from the whole experience, as well as some great advice for the panel members. It's also pleasing to think that we did beat 30 other applicants to become runners-up. Which isn't too bad i guess and it shows that there is some potential in the ideas Richard and i have.

The full £5000 prize went to a gentleman with some form of photography business (I'm in the process of contacting the winning, congratulating him and also getting the the full picture of what his project is based around), so good luck to him.

Bottom line, Richard and i are failures.

Whats next? 

Well, i was hoping to talk about the guest mix with Paul Tipler, but unfortunately he had to cancel because of the good old train system, but he should be being rescheduled for sometime in September, so hopefully I'll catch him them. Sunday should see an exciting event take place, but I'm tell all after it's happened.

Aside from that, all my efforts are going into swatting up for the Logic 101 Apple Certification course i intend to complete next week and with college finishing in a week or two, its time to find a job.

I'll leave you with this:

So, my third post in three days!!!

So what’s been going on over the past month? Well it’s been an extremely busy one, with college work taken up most of my time. But there have also been some interesting events throughout the month. My two last posts detailed the two of the larger happenings, but other interesting happens included finally getting a chance to hear the words of wisdom as preached by Andrew Dubber. Speaking of the evolution of communicational mediums, his thoughts on how the Internet should be used and his loathing of MySpace. I have also been teacher assisting on a 4-week HCFE Level one music tech course, which was certainly a new experience and one that took me out of my comfort zone.

What’s this month have install for me?

Well tomorrow I’ve been given the opportunity to sit in on a “Guest-Mix” with Paul Tipler, whos an engineer/producer who has worked with the likes of Squeeze, Placebo, Idlewild, Elastica, to name a few. So it’s going be immense to see how an industry engineer tackles a mix from scratch.

Wednesday, Richard and I are preparing a business plan presentation for the Freeth and Cartwright sponsorship. If won, the £5000 prize would certainly help us take our ideas for location recordings onto the next level.

At the end of the month I’ll hopefully be taking the Apple Certification Logic 101 course. After going through the example questions, it became obvious to me that the course will be both good and worryingly in-depth. So I need to dust of the old revision cap and do me some reading!

Amongst all that, I aim to indulge oneself in the art of music creation with the Ally Barber and I think I should also find a job, as this poor student life isn’t all that fun.