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Prepare for Take-off: how media technology work experience is like airline pilot training.

Prepare for Take-off: how media technology work experience is like airline pilot training. David Carugo, Department of Computing and Communications Technologies, Oxford Brookes University. Music and media technologies. Work experience Why? How? Creating Opportunities.

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Prepare for Take-off: how media technology work experience is like airline pilot training.

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  1. Prepare for Take-off: how media technology work experience is like airline pilot training. David Carugo, Department of Computing and Communications Technologies, Oxford Brookes University.

  2. Music and media technologies • Work experience • Why? • How? • Creating Opportunities

  3. Picture credits: Barker Evans, via londonjazznews.com and Oxford Jazz Festival.

  4. Music Event Opportunities • Local music organisations • Jazz and Folk music Nick Malcolm Trio at Oxford Jazz Festival.

  5. Work Experience Model • ‘Media’ work experience • ‘Runner’ or ‘assistant’ roles • Time to work up to responsibility • Can they ‘fly the plane’?

  6. Similarities between events / live broadcasts and airline flights • Technical • Talent

  7. Similarities between events / live broadcasts and airline flights • Event / OB: • Setup • Doors open • Artists enter • Performance starts • Performance • Encore • Audience leaves • Airline Flight: • Pre-flight checks • Boarding • Taxi-ing • Take-off • Cruising • Landing • Dis-embarkation

  8. The ‘passengers’ (audience) are in the care of the technical specialists

  9. There is a pilot and a co-pilot!

  10. Similarities between events / live broadcasts and airline flights Traditional ‘analogue’ controls ‘Glass cockpit’ digital mixing desk, multi-touchscreen

  11. Need to take in and respond in real time to lots of sensory information – visual, auditory

  12. Learners benefit from close guidance of a more experienced ‘pilot’

  13. To learn media production, one must do media production • Subjectivity in ‘creative’ technical operations • Informed by experience • Can music mixing be taught? It can be learned…

  14. Guided work experience • A mentor can guide students through “pre-flight” checks (setup and soundcheck) • Students can take control after “taxi” and “take-off”

  15. Benefits of close guidance/ mentorship during work experience Students get to “operator” status quicker than by traditional work experience

  16. There is a ‘safety net’ of experienced personnel to take over during ‘turbulence’ (i.e. when something goes wrong!)

  17. Benefits of close guidance/ mentorship during work experience Creative aspects of technical roles can be nurtured

  18. Benefits to graduate employability and to future employers • Experience in more responsible roles • High level creative skills

  19. Sometimes you just don’t know where the ‘plane is going to land! Student working on sound at a “Mexican” ceilidh!

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