Planning A Presentation to my future employer

1. Target Audience: Def Jam Recordings

2. Commonalities: Love for Music

3. Specialize in audio engineering and focusing on recording/mixing and mastering for artist

4. I enjoy playing video games and watching movies and would also love to great sounding arrangements for projects in that industry in post production

5. Would love to work on my personal brand to market myself better to employers and would love to spend some time in a live studio interning and shadowing with other audio engineers that have worked in the industry

6. Why I find them interesting: Opportunity to work with some of my favorite artist that inspired me to love music

7. Mastered using protools and logic to create quality sounding arrangements in the studio

8. Interesting points about this industry: Have provided music to consumers since 1984 since before I was born

9. Whats important to Def Jam: diverse artist that peform different genres of music so its important to appreciate all styles (rap, r&b, pop, electronic)

10. Important to provide presentation skills for public presentations as I will be presenting myself on what I can bring to there exisiting brand: We are Def Jam

11. Message I am trying to convey in my presentation is that I would be an asset to them as I have grown up listening to a lot of the top artist they have worked with over the years and I hope to be a part of creating music that will inspire generations to come.

12. I want the audience to hire me as an audio engineer to reach my dream of working in the music industry.

13. I am unique as I am quiet at first glance and studious but when I get around music a whole new side of me comes out

14. I am a hard worker and I wont stop until the job is done

15. I believe the music I will make will touch lives and allow others to relate to similar situations they have been in

16. I will inspire others to follow there dreams even when others told them they were out of reach.

17. Skills or qualities needed: Understanding of how to use protools/logic to record/mix/master

18. Beginning

18.1. Tell a story about growing up in high school and having a band I worked with. Talk about how we idolized artist like Kanye West, Common and A Tribe Called Quest and always wanted to work in the music industry. During the recording sessions I would sit behind my producer and shadow what he was doing with protools to record our vocals and how I was immediately drawn to wanting to learn how to do that for other artist to help them make there voice be heard.

19. Middle

19.1. Now that you have connected with the audience, demonstrate you are a qualified candidate based on the research you did to describe your “future self” Tell my story about how I stumbled across Full Sail University to learn to art of audio engineering to reach the goals I had set out for myself to allow other artist to be heard. I was able to learn Full Sail teaches students how to use protools and logic to record live sessions in the studio and learned techniques to mix and master tracks. They also provide hands on experiences to work in live studios while at school to learn from professionals.

20. End

20.1. Through my education I feel I can accomplish my goals of being an audio engineer for your company. I feel I have worked with a lot of artist who want to provide music to fans of different genres which allows me to be diverse in touching your fan base.

21. S.T.A.R. Moment

21.1. Provide visual aids of albums covers I have collected form the albums I bought over the years from my favorite artist that Def Jam has worked with as that inspired me to pursue music.