For this guest lecture we had Barney Oram come in, he is a Junior sound designer for video games. he explained to us that he specialises in creating ambience / environment sounds/atmosphere , and weapon sounds. he also goes explain how doing what he does not a short process. I found this useful because gave me more of an idea of what expect with repetitiveness when I will be doing foley it also gave some ideas on how to do environmental noise for specific scenes in my short film.

During this Lecture Lee Gretton spoke to us about the production process based on his own client based project. while giving a four step process which began with having an idea, step two was research, step three was production and the fourth step was delivery. I took more interest and was more focused on the second and final step for my clients based project for research because it mentioned looking into other sources of music similar to what Lee had to do which gave me the idea to look at other TV shows and motion pictures of a similar nature I tended to focus on products with female protagnoists as they where similar to the short film I was working on. The forth step delivery was also a focus due to it being a client when the majority was of sound project was complete I got the director and producer to come in and have a listen and there was a lot back and forth with what they were happy with and what they wanted to add so learning that in this lecture help no what to expect.

During Grant Bridgeman’s lecture he discussed his experiences prior and during working in the industry, focusing on how he started out, his on set skills not sound directly and information about freelancing and finding work. He also spoke about technicals skills, formats and work flows and how every working situation can be different. Then focused on film skills gave out information on understanding the process and the clients. He also mentioned accounting, and networking, and that how you communicate is key.  I found this lecture interesting and gave me a lot information that relate to my first learning outcome of the use professional practice to communicate with clientele.