First Day at Esente

My name is Meghan Pierce, I'm going into my senior year at Simmons College. I am studying Communications. I'll also have a minor in Radio Operations and PR&Marketing. Here at Esente, I am a PR intern. I'm so excited to be here because I've never had the opportunity to work on this side of music. I've played in bands and traveled across New England to play shows, but I've never had great experience helping bands in this way. Today, all the new interns started out by learning a little more about Esente and its message. As a PR intern, I worked on finding a few different articles on bullying and drunk driving. Now we're all working on finding various bands for the new CD. I'm looking for bands in Vermont.

Meghan Pierce (Simmons College)
PR Intern

Anti-bullying Posters

Today I have started working on my anti-bullying posters. I think I will do a series of posters with the facebook like button incorporated into my design. So far I have only come up with a concept and put together a first draft. I also came up with the idea to combine the facebook like button with a gun. The copy for this would be something along the lines of "online assault" or "cyber bullying can be deadly". In a previous post I added my anti-drunk driving drafts. I also included my third poster draft for the anti- drunk driving posters. My concept is that driving drunk is like the game Russian roulette.  

Ryan O'Donnell
GD intern

Mass. Country Artists

I am continuing to work on finding country music artists in Massachusetts for the compilation CDs. There are a wide variety of styles and sounds among the artists and I think they will make up a good, diverse compilation. Hoping to get at least 40 artists for Massachusetts.

Chris Smith
PR Intern

band search

Today I am digging for country bands in Pennsylvania for the cd campaign. To find bands I am looking in all different places. Some big sites and some small local PA sites. The information will be used to invite bands to join the campaign and a song will be used for the compilation cd. This is just the beginning to a big project that I look forward to being apart of. 

Ryan O'Donnell

GD intern

First Day

Today is my first day as a PR intern. As well as playing music as a hobby I have also worked a little bit in the music industry for a tour management company. It is good to be involved in the music industry again and participating in the positive campaigns that Esente deals with. Right now I am working on gathering contact info for country music artists in New England to approach about being involved in a compilation CD.

Chris Smith

PR Intern

Poster Draft

On my second day here at Esente Music Group I continue to work on my anti-bullying and anti-drunk driving posters. I have attached two of my posters that I am still working on. My concept for the poster is a manipulation of a common symbol for death and relate it to drunk driving.  The skull symbolizes the death and the cross keys relate it to driving. The body copy ties it down to drunk driving and the word 'drive' also says 'die' to further represent my concept. My second posters is a typographic approach. I made the main head "never drive drunk" big and red and overlapped the same text in different opacities to create a blur effect that someone would have when they are intoxicated. I added a yellow background that resembles a caution sign. To really emphasize my message that driving drunk impairs your motor skills, I added street lane markers that are not straight as if a drunk driver was driving. The body copy is there to add a fact and help represent my concept. I have started approaching the anti-bullying posters I have a few ideas in store. I will try a few different things until I find a solid concept and go further with it.

My name is Ryan O'Donnell, I am a Junior at Colby-Sawyer College. My major is Graphic Design and I minor in Media Studies. This is my first internship and I am nervous but excited at the same time. On my first day at Esente Music Group, I have jumped right into work and already feel the start to my career.  So far everyone at Esente has been welcoming and I feel comfortable to jump right in here. I have started designing posters for anti-bullying and anti-drunk driving. I also started to look at crowdfunding templates for the new CD campaign. This project seems like it is going to be big and I look forward to contributing.  I feel like I am prepared for this and ready to learn all about the actual work environment in this field.

Ryan O'Donnell
GD Intern