Week 9

Hours 80

I presented my project to my adviser and mentor at Borders Book store in San Rafael. I think everything went pretty well.To re-cap my project I was in charge of finding distribution. I researched and talked to the managers of independent record shops and asked about their distribution policy. The most time consuming part was to find and research each store. I wanted to make sure each shop was independent because I doubt the bands would want their merch sold in a chain (I know I wouldn't!) This was really hard because after I made a pretty decent list I found out that more than half didn't lead to a shop any more. This was disappointing because at the end I only had 7 shops and it looked like I didn't do too much work. I explained this to my mentor and she completely understood. She didn't expect there to be that many local record shops any way. I'm pretty happy with how my presentation went and glad I was able to help a non-profit which helps these bands.

Week 8

(Random days through out spring break)
total:80

I think that this could be a really fun job. I would love to go to shows and help struggling bands out in any way possible. I enjoy taking pictures or video and picking out songs of the month. The most tedious part the only thing I really did which was distribution. It didn't turn out to be as fun as I thought it would. This is only because I had to call places and find out what their policy was instead of going down there and showing them an actual product and talking to them face to face. It wasn't hard it was just boring and it felt impersonal. The business part of the job was pretty confusing too. While calling stores I heard a lot about consignment plans, buy out-right, ect ect. At one point I briefly went over the fine print of some online distributors (the whole shopping cart deal) I never would have thought that was a business in itself.