It's been a year-ish and I again have less than a month-ish to finish pulling together the LAMVF. Copyright pending. Because we may or may not be getting prosecuted for copyright infringement sometime in the near future, according to a series of confounding emails in the recent past. Apparently Los Angeles Music Video Festival is too close to "Los Angeles Music Festival"...who knows.
Anyways I thought I'd pick up where I left off for posterity's sake. I'm 23 days away from the 2nd annual LAMVF. Here's what my to-do list looked like a year ago, with things I STILL have to do marked in red. Can you spot the differences?
24 Days and counting...
It's the last day of 2010 and I have 24 days left before the festival.
Things to do:
-lock in speakers
-lock in panelists
-lock in judges
-finalize trophies
-finalize prizes
-sell ads
-finalize design of poster/program/flier/tshirt
-order poster/program/flier/tshirt
-order color-coded wristbands (tickets)
-publicity
-update website/twitter/fb
-compile email list **I need to compile a personal one with work/friend contacts
-email email list w/newsletter **I'm updating this one to "email SAVE THE DATE"
-finish screening vids
-select finalists
-announce finalists (press release/email all contestants)
-format so the finalists can be screened for judges
-screen finalists for judges/compile decisions
-work out deferred and late entries/payments
-follow up missing entry payments
-lock in bands for concert
-buy insurance for venue
-hire security for venue
-hire volunteers/interns
-buy food for greenroom
-reach out to food trucks
-compile screening formats for theater
-create projection images for rooftop ** maybe...it might not be open this year
-hire DJ
-lock in speakers
-lock in panelists
-lock in judges
-finalize trophies
-finalize prizes
-sell ads
-finalize design of poster/program/flier/tshirt
-order poster/program/flier/tshirt
-order color-coded wristbands (tickets)
-publicity
-update website/twitter/fb
-compile email list **I need to compile a personal one with work/friend contacts
-email email list w/newsletter **I'm updating this one to "email SAVE THE DATE"
-finish screening vids
-select finalists
-announce finalists (press release/email all contestants)
-format so the finalists can be screened for judges
-screen finalists for judges/compile decisions
-work out deferred and late entries/payments
-follow up missing entry payments
-lock in bands for concert
-buy insurance for venue
-hire security for venue
-hire volunteers/interns
-buy food for greenroom
-reach out to food trucks
-compile screening formats for theater
-create projection images for rooftop ** maybe...it might not be open this year
-hire DJ
29 things to do in 24 days. And work starts again on Monday. Overwhelm-o-meter = 8/9
Kind of comforting to know I was way in the hole a year ago and still pulled it off...I'm going to go with an Overwhelm-o-meter of 6
