For our first ‘do it for real’ lesson, we did a quick recap on the creative media sector of the industry, and how we could begin to integrate ourselves into it from early on.
The main categories are:
- Broadcasting
- Music
- Publishing
- VFX
- Games
- Film & TV
Good things to research and keep up to date:
- Different companies
- Jobs and opportunities
- Relevant News
- Social Media
- Synergies with VFX
The last bullet point there is what we worked on in groups for the remainder of the session. Our task was to create a mind-map of as many jobs as we could think of and find, with transferrable skills related to VFX. Here is what we came up with:
I wasn’t surprised to find that within each section, there are many individual roles and unique jobs, such as ‘pipeline manager’, who is in charge of the organisation and overlooks the whole process.