CLUB NIGHT/EVENT
KEY THINGS
VENUE
Firstly, the first key thing we looked into was our venue for our event. We all were very sure on the the venue we wanted already, and this was The Volks Nightclub in Brighton. We properly looked into this together and found out we could do the NUS student discount. Which means we could book the venue for £100. This is very good because between 4 of us, this is only £25 each! Which was perfect for us as it was cheap and a very known lace for the type of music we wan to play. That being Drum and Bass. To book the event we had to email the Owner which we found the email on The Volks Nightclub’s website. Joe emailed him and he got to us within 2-3 days. After that we went on the website and typed in all the details like, name of event, who’s involved and the co-hosts… Once we got this cleared, we started moving forward on planning our event.
(The Volks Nightclub, 2019)
COST
The cost of the whole event was quite expensive in total. This reason being we wanted to make it fairly good, so we can do more like it in the future and potentially become a bigger brand. We was all ok with the prices but not at the start. We never made a budget and it became a problem in the future. However we discussed further and worked out how much we was spending between us. Which we all came to a final decision and we was happy with it. The venue we chose came to £100, which of course we split between 4 ways and had to pay £25 each.
Second, we spoke about DJ’s and MC’s. Of course we was all playing a set too, so that takes away a few spots on the list. So we asked a few friends too play and we got together a few extra people to play for free! That being Dj’s and MC’s! Some MC’s cost extra too with a rider, like £25 or a couple of pints. But this wasn’t an issue. Then we had our headliners which was Dutta and Sinu8! Dutta came to a total of 450, plus a rider! Which is expensive but expected by a famous DJ! However before we was looking at other, even bigger DJ’s that cost even more which was completely unrealistic. We looked for these people on a site called UAA Artist Agency.
(UAA Artist Agency, 2019)
The good thing about Dutta is that he accepted a deposit beforehand, and his agent was very fair due to us being young and trying to find the money to afford this kind of night. We paid a half of the deposit which was £56.75 each (this being split between 4 ways). Then was allowed to pay the other half by sometime in June. Sinu8 was cheaper. He was £150, but Joe sorted this out, by message, and we all just pay £37.50 each too.
DJ’S/MC’S
The final decision of the Line Up for our event is:
DJ’s
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Dutta
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Sinu8
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Kohezion
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Sheppz b2b Skatmandy
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Me (ALR) b2b Muzz
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The Cause
MC’s
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BP MC
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Range
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Tremma
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Doyle
ART DESIGN
As I am Art director of the event, it was my job to find a graphic designer. I looked around for graphic designers but couldn’t find anything to our budget to spend on it. Which was only 20-50. Originally I messaged a person called Greg, and asked what he could do for us. But he offered a lot but for a ridiculous price which we couldn’t afford as well as what we are paying for already. So together as a group went around our college to offered students a prize! We found a person who was interested, and his name is Jack at graphic design classroom at our college and said we would do it for £20 and free entry to our event. He sorted us out nicely with designs and was very chill about slight alters to the posters like rearrangements and logos.
PROMOTION
The promotion will be taken place on Facebook and Instagram. Both pages have already been created on both sites. Also we will be doing shares and shoutouts as a group but also the people involved will be doing it to. Sharing the event, getting it out and loud. We Launched the page on facebook on 13th of May, with gives us a good month for promotion.
Joe emailed Skiddle to asked about selling tickets for our event on the site. They got back to us right away and we got the ball rolling within a week! The skittle was all set and was linked in the facebook page. The instagram is linked to the facebook so people can click the link and get straight to the facebook page, which has more of a following.
(Skiddle, 2001)
We also wanted posters printed but didn’t know where to even look. But Joe said his dad had a friend that could do them. Unfortunately we couldn’t so we had to look for other options. That being the printing department as the College. We asked Andy, our tutor, if he would ask as he is a teacher and could possibly get them cheaper, and we did! They turned out very well and look clean. We have already started on sticking them around the college, and around our local towns, which is Bognor and Brighton so we can get and interest of a range of different audiences from different places.
The main part of getting people there, is to make our profit back from what we spent in the first place. The venue told us if we get 100 people in the club, we can get our deposit, this is being we used NUS which means we are students. Also, if it is still busy by 4am, we can keep it open until 5am! We worked out also, if we completely sell out, we make £2,500 roughly. Which is about £600 each split. Which we would all love, as we want to do these events in the future and make a proper legitimate brand out of this!
EP
KEY THINGS
TRACKS
My goal was to complete 3 tracks for my EP. And I successfully completely that goal. This took me a total of 4 weeks to get my EP completed, this is not with days off. I worked very hard on these tracks and did a mixture of different types of Drum and Bass:
- Jump up
- Roller
- Mixture of the both
I did this because I know my audience likes a lot of different types, so why not produce a mixture. It also worked well for me because It helped me work in different ways to produce things that I have never done before, listening to different types of tracks on my Soundcloud and just hearing the difference between the other genres.
As I am releasing this EP as a free download, I researched into what places I can upload and link through Soundcloud so I can get feedback too. I see a lot of producers using The Artist Union as a free download page. So I decided to use that as my download link.
https://theartistunion.com/alrdnb
ARTWORK
For my artwork, I took it upon my own knowledge and remember a site I used to use to make different types of designs for EP covers and Album covers from the past. This being Canva! This website has some very nice templates and designs for an EP cover snd I made my own design! I wanted it to be clean but bold to the eye. But I felt lime I couldn’t tell that to a graphic designer. Also paying money and always backwards and forth whether it is good enough. Also due to the fact some people can be unreliable and unresponsive. So I just done it myself knowing that I will do it.
(Canva, 2019)
PROMOTION
My promotion will start on the 29th May. This gives me a full week in preparation to get the posts ready and the pictures. I gave it a week because I always see other Dj’s announcing there EP’s a week before, and it always comes out on a Friday. I saw this on Soundcloud and I took note from it. Also I know this because when I get my new tracks when I mix, I always get them every Friday, because thats when the new tracks drop! So my Ep will be dropped and released on a Friday. Friday the 7th of June.
I will be promoting this on my social media accounts. This being on my Facebook, On groups on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Just so I can get a range of people to come listen and show there support!
MASTERS
How I was originally planning to master my tracks was completely different to how I did it now. First I did some research on how to master a track,
(InspirAspir, 2017)
I took this video and did loads and loads of different types of masters and it didn’t come how I wanted it. It wasn’t clean enough and wasn’t loud enough too. So after this I went on a Facebook page called DNB Production. Which is a massive group where people post and get feedback or asked for help. I wrote a post and asked if anyone would do me a master? I got loads of feedback, but all was asking for money but they did good master etc…
I decided not to do that, as my friend, Joe Still, messaged me and told me he would do my tracks for free! Which I took the offer and sent all my tracks to him. I wanted to do this so my tracks would sound the same not from all different masters and all sound different. Also I know his tracks sound loud and clean, because he masters his own when he uploads I hear them, and they are very good masters!
Alfie Reynolds - DJ Tech 