Creative Expression Ideas

• Film and edit a music video representing different aspects of touring. I would also like to lay a specific song over it.
• Gather photos of friends and family, and of concerts, and traveling. Make a collage, and cut it out to be the outline of the United States. To represent touring nationally.

These ideas connect to my EQ in a way that my answers don't. My answers were found through lots of research making tour managing almost like a science. A scheduled, precise but lenient science. If that makes sense. I hope. Anyway, these ideas show the emotional aspect of touring. What not only the band, but the crew has to go through while away from their homes for months at a time.

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Interview 4 Questions

I hope to interview tour manager, Jenny Douglas. I am still in the process of contacting her. Her resume includes tour managing, sound and guitar techs, and selling merchandise for New Found Glory, Stick to Your Guns, In this Moment, and Walls of Jericho.


1. What in your life made you decide to be in this business and how long have you been doing this for?
2. Who mentored you or helped you get into this industry?
3. How do you balance personal life and tour life? Or is it not really difficult?
4. What is the hardest thing you have to deal with on a day to day basis on tour?
5. Would you say knowing sound is a key part in being a tour manager?
6. Do you have any band horror stories? Where something went wrong with money, venue, another manager or band mate, person from the crew, etc?

7. For aspiring female tour managers, do you think there is a reason as to why there are less female tour managers than males?
8. What are some qualities that set you aside from other tour managers being that you're a woman?
9. Is it harder or easier being a woman in the industry?
10. What are some tips or pointers you can give that would really help girl out on the road? 

11. Did you find it easier working for a tour management company or freelance?

12. What were some necessary things you took on international tours?

13. What was the visa and work permit process like?

14. How did you deal with equipment and language barriers?

15. Has any tour been canceled due to inconveniences with embassies or disputes in the country?
16. Do you find yourself peer mediating a lot between band members or crew?

17. What would you say is key for a tour manager in becoming well known or successful?

18. Which companies have/ are you worked for?
19. How did you connect with them?

20. May I have the contact information of someone in industry you know who can help me get on my feet?

Independent Study 2 Approval

1. I am planning on putting on a showcase of different musical acts from the music elective, outside of school. This would include me organizing sound, equipment, program, artist representation, promotion of the event, and booking a venue.

2. This helps answer my EQ because I will learn first hand what it takes to put on a show. Though it may not be over a period of several weeks, I will learn what every tour manager is faced with before and after a concert is put on. I will be able to figure out what is the most important or most difficult part of the experience.