1. Log: Mr. Ogden's Elective and Time Spent for iPoly Variety Show 3/18, 3/22, 3/25, 3/28, 4/1, 4/15, 4/16, 4/17, 4/18, 4/19, 4/20, 4/22, 4/26 for one hour and a half and 1-5 hours. Total- 30 hours
2. Posted Evidence
3. Complete the LIA:
Literal
(a) “I, Shazia Mian, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) For Mr. Ogden's elective I am acting as a manager and tour manager. I helping Mr. Ogden organize an end of the year recital for the Performance Elective. We will book a recital hall and showcase the event to family, friends, and iPoly. All the students will perform a number of different musical stylings with their fellow classmates.
For the iPoly Variety Show, I acted as a promoter rep and tour manager. A promoter rep finds the bands, books a venue and makes sure that the crew and bands are comfortable and promote the event. They also deal directly with the venue. The tour manager, makes sure everything goes well, and that everyone is doing their job. I've been at Cal Poly Pomona several times speaking to people about having the event about time, cost, equipment, health and safety precautions, and food handling permits. I also spent a lot of time making flyers, posters, and backstage passes on photoshop. I posted them all around the school, and made announcements everywhere. Also, I had to mediate one of the bands performing. They were having trouble finding a way to transport their equipment. I spoke to other bands and one them were able to lend some equipment.
They day of the show, I went to the Cal Poly commons, met with the sound technicians and began to work. The bands began showing up and loading in their equipment. I hired underclassmen to help bounce the event. They came at call time (1pm) and helped bands with their equipment and set up a media barrier. The media barrier was in front of the stage. People with cameras and passes were able to go in front of the barrier to get exclusive shots of the bands performing. Only three passes were issued to three people, two of which are from ROP. I had someone bring pizza for the bands and crew for lunch. Everyone was happy. Also, I had a pack of water for the band and crew. Once 3pm came, I helped Travel and Drama club set up their booths at the venue and were ready to sell. Everything was going perfectly, except for on thing. Patrick's band, On Wings of Eagles only had one of their band members present. They had missed call time and their sound check and only arrived 5 minutes before they were scheduled to perform. We all rushed to put their gear on stage. After that everything went smoothly.
After the show, I helped take down everything and cleaned the venue. I waited for all the bands to take their gear off stage. My henchman helped the iPoly clubs bring their things back to school. I thanked all the bands for coming. I also personally thanked the sound technicians for all their help. Around 6:30pm I finally started going back to school with equipment and unloaded it into a classroom.
Interpretive
Planning a tour takes a long time. I honestly thought that they don't take too much time, but this experience opened my eyes. I was very surprised. I dealt with so many people, some easy some not as much. I dealt with a lot uncertainty. I only booked the headlining band one week before the actual show. And that was a very scary experience. I almost had to cancel the show. I also was in constant contact with Cal Poly about the sound technicians and equipment and venue and protocol. I also spoke to Mr. Purther a lot about planning. I spent 4 hours at kinkos printing the posters and passes. Most important part would be the show. It was very stressful, but completely worth it. I was always worrying about if something would happen, how could I deal with it, etc. I was very happy that it all came together and that it was received very well. I only heard good comments from people that attended.
Mr. Ogden, I spend so much time with the acts. When we began to plan what they were going to perform, it was easy to pair people with each other because I knew their strengths and what their style is. We have very interesting and fun acts for the recital. I also am researching different venues for the recital.
Applied
It just proved that all my answers are good answers. But I also have more faith in my new best answer, which I just changed a few days ago. Comfortable with traveling. Though I didn't travel anywhere for this task, I had to deal with a lot of people. If I found that somewhat 'interesting', I imagined wow, I'd have to do it everyday for 3 months, while under the stress of traveling. On Wings of Eagles gave me a run for my money because of their uncertainty of making it to the show. I had some trouble dealing with Cal Poly in terms of the venue because we were both on spring break at different times. So the two days before the show I was up there all the time confirming, signing papers, etc. As a tour manager, I can't a hot mess. If I was at school the week before, I believe I would have been more on top of things and not take so long to confirm everything. But, I do think I solved issues very well. Everything went smoothly the day of the show, everything worked out, and everyone was happy and comfortable. To me, that was very important because it just makes their performance better. Overall I know it was a success.
So for Mr. Ogden, I feel a lot more prepared and I know that I wont wait for confirm or plan everything. I also plan on getting a lot more support from school for the elective.
