It is no coincidence that I just finished my first week being back at my day job and that I haven't written anything on here for a week. I practically didn't get to bed before 2am a single night in the last 7 days.
BUT there's a lot of good news! Sunday night, my "team" came over at 3:30 pm and didn't leave until 2:30...here's what happened:
Passed out our brand-new-fancy-pants business cards. NBD...
We watched all the videos in contention for selection and locked in our finalists....
(Yes, we did all click "accepted" together)...
We took a pizza break...
Then we wrote our to-do list and pow-wowed for the week. I made it as clear as humanely possible that from that point on we all needed to be amazing with communication--I asked everyone that every time I sent an email, they write back, even just to say "got it". If I asked them to get something done, they needed to let me know if they could or couldn't do it. If their phone or car was dying or they were stuck somewhere or didn't have internet or whatever, they needed to let me know asap so I could make other arrangements, etc. We're in crunch mode now and there's very little room for error so I wanted us all to be on the same page.
MONDAY:
First day back at work. Had some drama with task #1, dropping off VHS tapes at the Bronzery for casting by 2pm. Even though we specifically discussed the need to be proactive and keep the lines of communication super open, a dying phone, broken down car and locked-out-of-an-apartment situation almost dashed the plan for the day without me knowing until it was almost too late...Luckily it all worked out, thanks to Natalie and Colleen's amazing team effort. That was a wee bit of a stressful day.
Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri were sort of a blur but a bunch of really amazing things happened. We got a call from Alternative Rentals saying they wanted to make a donation, and now we have an HD Camera package rental to give away as a prize! We locked in our second band AND Colleen came up with a BRILLIANT way to involve our headliners, Voxhaul Broadcast, with the fest itself, so the concert doesn't feel completely disconnected from the rest of the day's activities.
We're going to hold a fast-pitch competition for a music video: LIFE'S A PITCH will give directors 3 min. to pitch their video idea to Voxhaul Broadcast and their manager for the band's new single. The winner will be announced at the concert and will take home the camera package (hopefully using it to shoot the video)...
And out of NOWHERE, after months of radio silence, I got a call from Scion saying they'd approved me for sponsorship!
SO we have our first corporate sponsor!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really feel like this is just the beginning...
