Today we talked about career goals and how that will directly influence your portfolios this year.
Setting realistic targets based upon your career goals is key therefore what you need to do is first write a mission statement:
"To be an independent recording artist and label owner that collaborates and produces with and for a range of artists and across a number of styles. Also work as a Youtuber filming content to teach people how to make music"
Today we looked at breaking this down and creating smaller tasks and setting time-based targets to work towards. It is important that you have planned your time carefully and set yourself targets because I am not going to plan content for the lessons, I will be helping each of you work towards your targets whatever they may be. The steps you need to take should be relevant, precise and have strict timing limitations attached.
Your Portfolio plan should then contain along the lines of:
Music - EP, LP, Singles? Self-produced, collaborative, mixed and mastered etc
Video - Storyboard, Equipment, Director, Producer etc
Social Media - Insta, Youtube, Snapchat, Facebook etc
Branding - Logos, Photos, Artwork
Here are a few examples of how you can plan your time. It will be different for each one of you. The ideas need to come from you - I can't plan your career for you!
Content: 10 track album (hip-hop)
Instrumentals - already done
Finish recording vocals - December
Mix all tracks - Feb/March
Mastering - April
Release single: May (Soundcloud)
Release album: June (Bandcamp)
Music video: find director - Feb
Music video: planning - March
Music video: shoot - April
Music video: edit - May
Music video: release - June
Content: 4 track EP (singer/songwriter)
Finish lyrics - December
Guide tracks - January
Rehearsals - Jan/Feb
Recording - Feb/March
Mixing - April (who will mix the songs? do you need to find a mix engineer?)
Release - June (Soundcloud)
Artwork: moodboard - December
Artwork: photos - Feb/March
Artwork: editing - April
Artwork: publish (Instagram) - May
As well as the art/music/videos think about how you will present your work....
Do you need your own website?
Do you have all the social media channels set up?
Do you have a brand name/artist name?
Do you have a logo?
Do you have press shots?
Website: set up your domain (e.g www.farzmusic.com )December
Website: plan your pages/layout - January
Website: design - Feb/March
Website: content - April/May
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