Day 128 / Dublin Day 1

Day 1 in Dublin has been great so far. The studio I'm doing a placement at is much more mammoth and elaborate than I originally (naively) assumed.

There are 3 other floors I didn't know about! A lot of video digitising, transferring, editing and grading gets done there, along with a production team who create advertising too! So it's not just audio post-production. It's an amazing operation and the building itself is quite new, so it's been co-designed by the leading guys who've worked with the company the longest. It's a very tasteful modern building, custom made especially for all the work that goes on there.

Just hanging out in the place is ace. The top floor canteen, outside lounge and presentation rooms are quite stylish and comfy. The studios are kitted out to excellent standards, of course. There are several: About 11 editing suites, 4 main audio rooms, 2 video rooms, and... pfftt... I've lost count... Loads of other stuff. It sounds like it might be cramped or something, but it's all laid out so logically and everything is so shiny and new!

As for the atmosphere, all the staff I've dealt with so far are totally dead on. They've put me at ease. I feel I have an easy ride, as it's just my job to hang about and ask questions, so it's the least stressful position I could possibly be in, but they're all really friendly people too, so it makes me feel like I could definitely be one of the family.

Different people have their different ways of explaining their roles, their experience and skills to me and they all seem quite keen and patient to go over things with me, which is great.

As for the work they do there: I got to sit in on two sessions today, one was quite a simple job, but I had the amazing experience of actually putting a face to one of those trademark boisterous voices you hear on TV/Radio all the time! The other job was more serious, so I watched and didn't interfere (too much), it was nice to watch these guys in action though, proper skills!

So that's about it for now. Awesome place, awesome people doing a lot of pretty awesome work.
I definitely would enjoy working for this company.

I haven't seen much of Dublin, as I've been on the internet, since getting out of the studio, (typical, come all the way down here just to have the same chit chat to people on MSN), also I'm pretty tired today, after having to get up at 5am and all, but ah well, plenty of time for sight seeing as the week progresses.

Slán leat.