Today’s lecture was from Luke Pickering and was all about his job working in Chapel Studios in London and how he got and maintained his job working there.
This was a highly informative lecture for someone such as myself who is thinking of trying to get into this side of the music industry.
Luke gave some great advice about working in studios, some of the advice that I thought was really useful consisted of things such as applying for the job you are going for. For example, although you would have engineering experience its highly likely we would apply for a runner job first so when applying don’t say why you’d be a good engineer even though that’s a career goal. Furthermore, Luke also mentioned his time doing work experience with Miloco and how his persistence with them eventually landed him his job at Chapel studios.
One further thing Luke outlined was some attributes that would make you a desirable asset to a studio. These were, being switched on, having a strong initiate, not being annoying or pestering people above you, and wanting the job and putting in the effort whilst you are there especially on a placement as they may even offer you a job afterwards.
Finally, Luke mentioned that this type of career is really a lifestyle over a job and that it does really consume all your attention and this is a point to take into consideration.
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