Rylee, Guest Speaker Reflection

Refer to our guest speaker post about Rylee yesterday.  Reflect on what you learned in her workshop.  What did you enjoy about it?  What did you find interesting?  What do you want to learn more about?  How can you implement this knowledge into your productions going forward?

    Some things that I learned from her workshop were networking and tips for starting out in the industry. She talked about how the sound mixer community is much smaller compared to other departments. Thus, it is especially important to know other people as they can get you jobs and you can borrow gear from one another. She started out in the industry by going to De Anza and networking with people. A big tip she gave was to cold call/message people and get to know people in the industry so that they may offer jobs to you in the future. Something that I enjoyed about her workshop was getting to see a professional's sound kit. She had an analogue mixer and mic packs, which is different from the all-digital sound equipment that we primarily use. Something that I found interesting was that there aren't really any rental houses for sound gear, so she has to supply all of her own gear and/or borrow gear from other sound mixers. Something that I would like to learn more about is the difference between working professionally vs. working for class projects as I've only ever done crew roles for class productions or for people who are recent alumni of SVCTE so I have little experience of what differences there may be compared to professional sets. I could implement a lot of her tips and knowledge into future productions by being much more proactive in networking and building industry connections so that I could set myself up for the most opportunities.