PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT; THE ROLES I DID

During my professional placement, i did a range of different roles whilst attending a range of different events in order to learn as much as i could. Firstly, i went to a corporate event Natixis in London, i helped out the transportation of the kit into the room where the event was taking place. Also i helped with the staging by building the chairs and tables for the presenters to sit on stage.



Moreover, i helped within their warehouse with the organisation of the kit, i helped and learnt how to properly wrap 20 meter cables properly, the reason they are quite particulate about this is because it makes it a lot easier for the crew to unravel when getting rigging an event. The way they work in the warehouse is they have 'standardised' the kit, so each camera or sound kit comes with the same amount of cables; normally more than what they would use but it means they have spares and extras if needed. I helped put these kits together particularly focussing on cables which allowed me to learn about the different types and what they do, for example, XLR and speakon cables.

Another event i went to was a premier league football match, for this their wasn't a lot i could physically do, purely because Sound credit got there to set up the commentary machines, they have to have them all set up by a kick off so that the commentators are ready to start on time, with this one its quite important to be good on working with timing deadlines. During the match i sat with some of the foreign commentary for Denmark and MUTV, i was there in case they had any issues with their commentary machines or if they needed anything else. This event in particular was really useful in seeing how the process works.