This week’s guest lecturer was Luke Pickering of the Church Studios in London, Luke also studied Audio production at Lincoln.
Despite Luke being from a different field of audio considering I want to go into radio it was still a valuable talk. What I particularly drew upon was the fact that Luke described the creative industries as a service industry meaning that the work you do is to serve a client not to serve yourself, this means that money always comes first in any project, and this is relevant in any field of the audio industry. Luke also gave some interesting pointers on how to get work experience and what you should do once you get it, with me particularly taking note of him saying that you have to engineer your own luck and that then it is up to you try and make things happen rather than you relying on someone else to do it for you, he also stressed the importance of knowing when is and isn’t the right moment to talk to someone and how to make yourself ‘invisible’. The other thing he talked about was what industry professionals are looking for from someone, which he stated was the following: switched on, strong initiative, not annoying and driven, this was really interesting to hear about as he said it was obvious if someone comes into the studio who hasn’t got these qualities they are simply not invited back. The final thing i took was that you shouldn’t big yourself up on applications as again people can tell if you’re lying about something and are less likely to pick you over someone who is honest.
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