Today’s lecture was presented by Lucy Mitchell, a freelance post production sound editor and mixer.
This lecture was very interesting for me as this too is an area of work I would like to go into, as well as the possibility of working freelance.
Lucy brought up some interesting points, bout about how to get a job and then techniques we could use to make our lives easier once conducting the job.
As with most jobs in the creative industry Lucy stated that work experience was key and thus working on as many productions as possible would be a key aspect of landing a job as work experience and a portfolio is physical proof of your abilities. She also stated that at the moment there is a large amount of available work within the games industries for sound editors and mixers. Furthermore, just as Luke stated in previous weeks, large companies are more likely to start you off as a runner, whereas smaller companies may employ you as an editor straight away. And there are benefits to both of these approaches, as whilst with the latter you with go into the desired job straight away you won’t be working on very notable projects and they are likely to be lesser known however you may be promoted to being a mixer a lot quicker, however with the larger companies it will take you a lot longer to progress however the projects you work on will be of higher credit and thus carry more weight when applying in future.
This lecture laid out some very good points for consideration, when searching for work in the future and is something I will look back on for reference.
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