I would like to thank all of the people who attended and all our sponsors for making our first annual Midwest Movie, Music and Model Expo a big success.

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The Midwest Music, Movie and Modeling Expo "Chasing the Dream" is a networking conference to bring industry people together in Columbus and surrounding Midwest Cities. (Midwest Expo 2003 Coming Soon or call 1-800-568-1280 for information about this years expo.) The idea is to teach and educate the up and coming talent how the entertainment industry works. It will also show how to take a finished product to the market place and also the companies will be looking for new talent for the  up and coming movies, music and modeling projects in the area. 

Everybody does not have to move to L.A. or New York in order to make it in the entertainment business. Through the vast upgrade in equipment and technology of today, a person could have a basement studio and make music and movies just as professional as the big producers in L.A. In addition, combined with the information age of websites, emails, faxes, teleconferencing, overnight delivery service and airline travel, the finished product can be shopped to the market place all over the world.

Also, from an economical standpoint, it is actually a lot less expensive to make movies and music in the Midwest. There are two reasons for this:

a) A lower cost of living
b) Lack of competition in the entertainment field. The main reason why the Midwest is so behind is that the people who live in the Midwest are not exposed to the entertainment success. So in their hearts and minds, they do not believe the dream can be obtainable. This behavior leads to lack of discipline, motivation and the search for knowledge needed to take on the great task.

It is now time for this part of the country to strategically network and pull all of our resources together and learn how to make, market, promote quality product and take to the market place to close the deal.
Lets breakdown the promotional strategy for The Midwest Music, Movie and Modeling Expo to make this event a big success. The campaign will start two months before the event and gradually start to intensify as we move closer to the event date.
a) 8 weeks of flyer distribution in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, Indianapolis and some other surrounding cities. (40,000 four colored double sided flyer.)
b) 6 weeks of TV commercials on cable MTV, BET. VH1 and UPN 53 in Columbus and some surrounding cities.
c) 4 weeks of radio advertising and ticket give a ways on Sunny 95, WNCI, CD101, BLITZ, 107.5 and some surrounding cities.
d) 2 weeks of print ads/Press releases in local newspaper.

a) Become an annual event
b) Invite more famous speakers
c) Invite national acts for some of the singing performances and modeling
d) Creating more financial opportunities for the industry business owner, artists, actors, models, by bringing more work and exposure to the area.
e) Finally to lure big movie and commercial projects to Columbus and surrounding areas.

The date for the Midwest Expo is Saturday April 6th at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. .
The Expo will run from 12 noon to 8 P.M. and the admission price will be $25 in advance and $40.00 at the door.

The event scheduled for the day will consist of speakers, workshops, panel discussion which will be a 30 minute session with questions.

a. Entertainment Industry and what the expo is looking for.
b. Film and Acting
c. Music
d. Entertainment Law
e. Modeling
f. Marketing, Promotion and distribution
g. Personal Training, looking good for the entertainment business.
h. Live Singing Performances
i. Movie Screening
j. Modeling Show
k. DJ and Party
l.  Raffle for free Photo Shoot
m. Model pick for 2003 Calendar