blog.etcconnect.com: We’re lucky to have so many intelligent people in this industry with an aptitude and willingness to teach. Over the past couple of years, many of these people – lighting designers, programmers, and researchers have given their time to help explain some of the industry’s trickiest topics.
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It’s been really awesome to see how different tech companies are expanding free trials during this pandemic. I have personally been downloading a whole bunch of them onto my computer to try to take this time to learn some more to add as skills in my resume. I appreciate the industry professionals rallying together to give some more instructions to students like us. Just yesterday there was a lighting forum with a bunch of professionals in the lighting industry talking to students about their jobs. The other day our production planning class was given a presentation by a TD grad who then went on to become a nurse and worked a lot on planning the coronavirus unit in her hospital. It has been really amazing getting to learn more about these people and exploring what it is like in the real world so that we could all be exposed to that and learn more about what we want to do as a future career.
With all the entertainment holds and shutdowns and stay at home orders throughout the course of the pandemic, I am very glad that the online community is sharing resources and ways to continue learning through this holding pattern. I think everyone, especially the entertainment community, realizes that there is not a whole lot we can do within our industry to get ourselves back up and running, so we might as well put this down time to good use and prepare to jump right back in where we left off when the time comes. I will definitely be bookmarking this post of articles to come back to later when I have extra time away from class and projects. Now that people are home, there has been both an outpouring of content and availability, and also time to finally sit down and take that course you’ve had bookmarked for the better part of a year.
Well, while we're all bored and stuck at home, we might as well learn something.It's encouraging and refreshing that so many professionals and companies are taking this opportunity to expand access to their knowledge and to their tools. There's no way to spin this in a way that says that the theatre industry isn't struggling and that it isn't going to struggle for quite a while after the pandemic has died down, but there are certainly small victories and opportunities. I'm intrigued to see how the industry will have adapted and changed when everyone goes back to work, and how those in the industry will have changed. I like to think that after spending several months in quarantine, we will find that everybody has taken the opportunity to brush up on the newest tools and ideas, and that because of the expanded access to educational material and to the softwares that can be so inaccessible, the work force in the entertainment industry will come back to work better educated and more ready to use the full array of tools that can be available to us than we were this february.
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