Rob Peek - Alan Ett Music Group - 11/16/08

Hey guys,

First of all I want to send out my deepest and most sincere thanks to all of the other interns, alumni, and Debbie for the wonderful surprise party for Sonny this weekend. You all have no idea what it meant to me, and how wonderful of a surprise it was.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!!

Next, it was the busiest of busy weeks last week. I sat in on a sound design session at Media City Sound. I made a couple of contacts and exchanged business cards with a few people, and I made my way into an industry mixer with some of the top music supervisors in the country.

Sound Design was very interesting. By far the most artistic of the post production duties, the sound designers are responsible for making sure that the music picked out by the music supervisor fits in and works well with the moving images and audio clips that are part of the tv show. The sound designer referred to it as "Surgery" on the audio clips. Cutting and slicing bits and pieces of library music to fit the time frame of the scene, and adjusting the volume at various places to go underneath dialog as well as taking the library music and adding other pieces of music to it in order to make the music really become part of the show!

The Hunnypot Party was the official party to kick off the Billboard Music/Hollywood Reporter convention on Music in Film and Television. Most major supervisors in the U.S. were at least invited to this event, and alot of them showed up.
The most interesting thing about this event, at least to me, was watching the people interact with each other.
This was a party at a club, which meant, live bands and dim lights. What was cool was watching how people did business in this setting. Two salesmen from Alan Ett were here, and they had a strategy. Watching these two guys work was like watching pro sports, each of them knew what the other one was doing, and they were both working for the same common goal.
The Vice President of sales here at Alan Ett was also at the event. She had her spot staked out right by the door so that she could be the first one to talk to people as they came into the club. She also came equipped with her camera and took pictures of herself with people. At first it reminded me of being back at college and taking pictures with people because it was going to go up on their myspace, but then someone told my why she does it; Like I said, this was a club, so dim lights, and very hard to see the faces of the people you are talking to, so she takes pictures of herself with these people, so that she can see who it is she's talking to.

Brilliant!

It was a learning experience for me, and a sort of eye opener as well. This is how business is done out here. It wasn't a party, it was a giant business meeting.

That's all for now.


Thanks again everyone.

Rob