_Whazzup*___
The OFFICIAL Blog of SP DMATAgenda currently in progress:
DMAT CrossRoads Concert 06 Video DVD & Photo/Audio CD (READY - I/Cs Peixia, Wee Siong, Royston, Edwin)
DMAT Contact List (READY - UPDATED Yr 2) - I/C Edwin
_DMAT*Info___
Course: Diploma in Music & Audio TechnologyStudent Intake: Approx. 40
Personal Tutors for Year One students: 01 Class - Timothy Rodrigues, 02 Class - James Ang
Personal Tutors for Year Two students: 01 Class - Michael Spicer, 02 Class - Tan Tin Hee
Year One Class Reps: Mandric (01), Aimran (02)
Year Two Class Reps: Edwin & Shao Chong (01), Hazel & Joyce (02)
_DMAT*Info___
DMAT (Diploma in Music & Audio Technology) is a course under the School of Media & Info-Communications Technology (SMIT) in Singapore Polytechnic. The DMAT course is designed to provide a holistic music education that imparts components of creativity and technology, with emphasis on the integrated use of music and audio elements. Students learn to create and produce music and audio through the use of a variety of software and hardware tools.DMAT has proven to be a popular course. The first intake in 2005 was only 43 students, who entered either through JAE (good academic aggregate) or DAE (audition-based). The Cut-Off Point in 2005, or ELR2B2, was 12 points (after bonus)!
_Musically Enlightening__
Chopin - Fantaisie Impromptu
-Ian
Well well.. Okay, so everything's going to plan. Kudos to Melodie for getting everything typed out like that. Anyway, yes, all committee heads, please quickly recruit people into ur committees and submit the names either to Melodie or myself. So far, only Edwin has given the names of his committee to me. Really fast. Hahas.
I guess I really don't have much else to say now. Oh, and was wondering if we could get Tim Rodrigues to be our emcee. He could do his powerful "LADIES N GENTLEMEN!!" thing again. *grinz* Just a thought. Whaddaya guys think?
Another thing is, before I take this up to the various Directors, I'm gonna need to be prepared with a proposal.. So now, open to anyone by voting, it'd really be good if we'd start thinking about what kind of concert we wanna have. What the theme should be, the general genre of the concert, so that at least people will know what kinda songs they'll expect to hear. For example, do we wanna hold a rock concert? Or more of those slow songs? English or Chinese? *Hmm.. actually can mix both english and chinese..* But whichever.. All can start discussing. Sooner we reach a decision, the better, yea?
Okie dokes. Shan't drone on here. Hehs. I guess our blog has become our notice board, so any updates, I'll just post it here. Those who do read the announcements, can just spread the words to the rest of the Mahts, k?
Alwitex. Outta here~
This post was originally by Melodie. It will be modified accordingly as new information is revealed or when the information below is confirmed. THIS IS ONLY A ROUGH IDEA. MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONCERT CAN BE FOUND AT THE DMAT FORUM.
*Tentative = To Be Confirmed
Venue: SP Auditorium or somewhere in SP (tentative)
Date: Saturday, 20 August (tentative)
Time: Evening (7pm+)
Ticket Price: $6 - to cover for our costs (tentative)
-Appointments-
Advisors: Michael, Timothy & Georgina
Chairman(s) (name speaks for itself): Ian & Melodie
Supervisor (makes sure everything goes on as planned): Carmen
Logistics (makes sure performers have their INSTRUMENTS & equipments): Nicholas
Welfare/attendance (food! ouch, tummyache, headache, cannot make it for rehearsals..): Yanxi
Wardrobe (open her up and that's where you find the latest fashion): Ling Er
Treasurers ($$ matters): Candice n Kaiwen
Ticketing: Kaiwen (easier to work with a treasurer)
Publicity (advert, flyers): Edwin
Ushers: For this we need external help. From SPSU probably. Cos' we can't be ushering and performing.
Performers I/Cs (to oversee the performances): Adam and Melodie
Emcee: ???
Aim: To complete 7hrs of CIP work and collaborate this project with our Performance Module's 'public performance'.
Pre-production:
-> Get approval from:
1) Deputy Director of DMAT, Mr Quek Chee Siong
2) Director of School of ICT, Mr Song Nay Hay
3) Principal (by word of MOUTH)
4) Corporate Communications
5) Student Affairs <- get help frm em'
-> Get sponsors (Carm, you know what to do about this right? Please guide us.)
-> Book Auditorium (or whatever venue we're using).
-> Look for an Organisation to aid.
-> SEND everything.(redundant)
FORTUNATELY, THIS WILL BE DONE BY Carm, Ian n myself.
-> Preparation for PERFORMANCES:
- Everyone is involved n MUST do at least an item that lasts for at least 3mins(strictly).
- You CAN do in grps. Pop style. Get ur own drummers n stuff. But please be presentable.
- I'm sure Michael will guide us more on THESE.
-> Preparation for Rehearsals:
- Well.. From experience speaking, rehearsals will be a big headache. at least 3 full-runs. With costumes n music n all.
- PLEASE be prepared to stay back late.
- PLEASE also prepare ur pieces back home(solo)/elsewhere(grp). We meet to run thru, not practice music. IMPROVISE yay..
- Don't stress out. whee.. COOL^^(bani)
-> Preparation for Concert:
- Tickets: we need to print, which means $$$ gotta come in. So, i was thinking if we can get sponsors, it'll be good. hmmm.. (carmen?)
- Ushers: problem with this is our own DMATians cannot do this. Our main job is to do music n audio. yupp. so external help is needed!! yay..
- We will have 2 full runs in some big area(we'll have to look for somewhr in the sch), 1 full-run n 1 tech-run on concert morning. Uh.. u all know what r runs right? yay.
- Schedule for rehearsals will come out only after all admin matters r settled.
Any questions on the above info. pls reply to this post. Ian/carmen/mel will answer them as they can. Thanks.
its really awkward how SP manages our course.. Changing everyone back n forth in the class... The timetable goes chaotic and we all got pissed.. Dun that juz suxxx? I really wonder wassup with SP.. With the dumb IDEA module, the boring talks and stuff, it aint supposed to happen this way. So many pple were complaining that the IDEA module is nonsense, since they sell our ideas, then the developers profit, not us. One good example known to us so far was the Maggi Mee franchise. The real makers from SP were not acknowledged at all. They were only given a little cash (duno how much) for it.
Now I'm not trying to make everyone rebel against the IDEA module or something, but it's about the way they do it. It pisses me off. The original makers should at least be paid for every product made (just like George Lucas with Star Wars; or Bill Gates with Microsoft).. At least we the makers as well as the developers benefit and go home happy. Aint that better? But obviously the developers kiasu and want to keep the $ for themselves.. Haix.. Selfishness in the economy is a big sin..
P.s: all these are just personal opinions, dun take it to heart...