Industry Weeks
The second edition of the Industry Weeks is live online! Don’t miss 30+ free events, and join the European creative community of SAE.
From 5 to 16 September, students, alumni, lecturers, and Industry Experts will introduce you to many different insights into creative production. There are three main formats available.
- Industry Experts: selected representatives with different experiences in the creative media will talk about their work and introduce you to their jobs.
- SAE Finest: lecturers at SAE are well-known professionals in their sector. Discover the fantastic projects they have been involved in, and enjoy the unique SAE experience.
- SAE Futures: what jobs the course you selected will lead you into? Meet the Alumni! A fantastic opportunity to learn from leading professionals who studied at SAE.
WEEK 1 - IN THE SPOTLIGHT
WEEK 1
David Reyes, better known as “Mexico City”, is a producer and sound engineer in California, Los Angeles. He has been involved in film music, working on projects such as Coco or Vaiana by Disney, BAO by Pixar, A Star is Born by Warner Bros., The Best of Enemies, Le Chaperon, and Blindspotting.
Taking care of the design of a videogame, either for a sizeable triple-A project or a small indie production means creating step by step a parallel world, coherent and believable even in its less realistic aspects.
In this masterclass, José will discuss the difficulties and stimuli in maintaining this level of cohesion between all the elements involved in what often is a long period of work, research, and design for video games. He will also talk about how limits and boundaries can be of great help in the process of building an entirely new visual world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
With more than two decades of experience in the game industry, healing from Amsterdam but with southern origins, José is an engineer/game developer with an exciting journey.
From humble beginnings working as a web app engineer in Spain, José managed to redirect his career into the game industry in the early 2000s, joining Microsoft Game Studios in Ireland. He worked on a new console launch: Xbox360, several top production titles: MassEffect, Gears of War, Guitar Hero, Halo 3, mentioning just a few, and a project flop in the form of media entertainment device (Zune), fulfilling the roles of QA, product owner or Software Test Lead.
After some years, José decided to move to The Netherlands: TomTom, Telegraaf Media, and Subatomic were some of the companies he worked for before joining Guerrilla Games.
At Guerrilla, José worked on the release of Killzone 3 and Killzone Shadow Fall, helping shape the power of PS4, and worked on Horizon Zero Dawn, heading for PS5.
After some years on the corporate side, José and a long-time friend founded an indie studio in Amsterdam: Radical Graphics Studios.
Ever since, through Radical Graphics, José has been involved in the production of mobile games, gamification applications, Virtual Reality games, and lately, blockchain games.
Currently, he’s a game architect/developer working on-site for one of the fastest media entertainment companies in Europe, Azerion.
The Game Design in Hyper-Casual games with Philippe Grazina from the company TapNation.
With the mobile video game market growing rapidly today, these free (basic) games sometimes become more financially practical than other categories of video games.
Working as a game designer for these types of applications means understanding perfectly the marketing issues of a company.
This seminar will present first-hand insights from both a creative and an industry perspective for everyone interested in computer games or the visual arts. Klaus will demonstrate how he approached his storyboard work for Horizon: Forbidden West and other titles. He will expound on how his career developed from drawing comic books to storyboarding AAA-game cinematics. We will explore core principles of visual narration that will inspire 2D- and 3D artists to maximize their storytelling potential.
This session will be conducted in English. There will be a Q&A opportunity.
About the speaker
Amsterdam-based storyboard artist Klaus Scherwinski is an expert in the field of narrative-driven illustrations. After working on IO-Interactive’s HITMAN and recently shipping Horizon Forbidden West with Guerrilla Games, Klaus provided storyboard art for Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The German artist likes working internationally and shares creative and professional insights during in-person and online masterclasses and via his Instagram channel @storyboardklaus.
www.storyboardklaus.com
Hypercasual is an actual business model in the playful world and has become a significant player in video game consumption worldwide. The games are based on very simple mechanical levers with intuitive controls. The ultimate goal is to retain an audience through fun, easy-to-access experiences, simple rules and a high winning and crossing rate.
Groover connects musicians or their representatives with media, labels and influencers, ensuring they are heard, get constructive feedback on their tracks and gain visibility. https://groover.co/en/
Only a few weeks before the start of the courses, we are back from the summer holidays meeting a great special guest, SAE Milan Alumnus and Multi-Platinum Award Winning Engineer: Patrick “Wave” Carinci.
Patrick, one of the leading mixing and mastering engineers in the Italian Urban music scene, will talk to us about his professional development, starting from the end of his studies at SAE Milan, and will let us discover some of the mixing techniques used to shape the productions of the many Italian mainstream artists he has collaborated with.
Analysing some DAW sessions of essential mainstream tracks such as Shakerando by Rhove, Capri Sun by Capo Plaza and many others, we will discover in detail the techniques used by Patrick for mixing and mastering these tracks.
During the meeting, held in Italian, we will also discuss the main features that should not be underestimated for good production and the non-technical aspects of studio work, such as the relationship with artists.
The free meeting, with registration required, is dedicated to all Audio Production, Mixing, Mastering and Urban Music enthusiasts.
About the Speaker
Patrick “Wave” Carinci is a mix and mastering engineer active in the Italian Urban Music scene. He started his professional journey in 2014 when he was contacted by Gue Pequeno, gaining wide recognition in the following years and forging the works of several Italian artists. Alumno SAE attended the Audio Production course between 2013 and 2016. He currently has more than 250 certifications between gold and platinum records to his credit.
Comedy, drama and animation script writer. He has worked on Hollyoaks and Have I got News for You
Music took him worldwide, and he has been very fortunate to have worked with artists like Kanye West (Donda album – two Grammy Awards winner), Snoop Dogg, Sia, TheWeeknd, Jay-Z, and many many more.
Paul Mackie will be describing his journey of what it has been like to work on both low-budget independent feature films and studio-based blockbusters.
Tasos Frantzolas is a Greek entrepreneur with roots in sound design and music.
He is the founder of Soundsnap.com, a sound effects and music library with over one million users and top clients such as HBO, Vice, Apple, NASA, Konami, Microsoft and Pixar. He is also the founder of Beatopia, a website that offers beats for rappers and singers.
This masterclass will cover the TTAL protocol, the EdiCue SW and the main features of Nuendo and Cubase. Among them:
- Dialogue detection
- Renewed ADR Taker system
- Netflix TTAL import and export
- Headphones Match
- Dolby Atmos Binaural Downmix in Renderer
- EdiCuev4 support
- API MIDI Remote new system
- Sound design tools
- Native Apple silicon support
- Q&A
The Speaker
Franco Fraccastoro graduated in Classical Guitar and Musicology at the University of Bologna.
He attended the Post-Graduate course in Environments and community for online learning / Manager Online Training (and Learning), University of Florence and completed the Master in Sound Engineering, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
He completed the Audio Post Production for Film and TV course at the Berklee University of Boston and Sound Design and Music for Immersive Media at Columbia College of Chicago.
He worked, as a musician, with various studios in Italy and UK, playing even in live gigs with pop rock and classical ensembles. As a sound engineer, he worked either in the studio or live.
Today he regularly holds seminars and conferences concerning music production, Audio for VR, games and Post in many Universities and Education centres all over Europe, such as Politecnico of Milan, Székesfehérvár Orchestra centre, Musicology University of Cremona, SAE Barcellona, SAE Madrid, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, SSR Manchester etc.
He is a teacher in many Institutions like the Tor Vergata University of Rome, SAE Campus Brussels, VHEIT University, Department of Digital Arts, Animation and Videogames, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Milan.
Producer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and sound engineer, he works for Sugar, Wea, Warner Music, Dim Mak, Ultra, Kannibalen Records and other labels collaborating with Italian and International artists. He works in the post-production sector, realising some important trailers, spots and ADS – e.g., Fiat.
In 2016 he opened a new company focusing on music production, immersive audio and artists promotion: he wrote a book with the title “Il suono immersivo” and “Immersive sound”, and a lot of papers about this topic were published by various publishers such as Libra.
He is Education Development & Product Specialist for Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, mainly working in the MI and Pro-Audio.
SAE lecturer Kevin Augello was commissioned by Dolby to investigate the potential of shooting a run and gun adventure documentary using their Dolby Vision HDR technology embedded in the recent iPhone.
Firdaus has more than 20 years of experience in the creative content industry of video games development, animation and comic industry. He is also an established Virtual Reality Artist, and his VR artwork has been showcased in many international art exhibitions worldwide.
Meet the Alumni Robin Rocher, former SAE Institute Paris student and Lead Pipeline Designer at Illumination Mac Guff.
The Lead Video Game Designer is responsible for designing and producing video game graphics. Both artistic and technical experts guarantee the project’s progress and the respect of deadlines in its field. He supervises and accompanies his team of graphic designers.
Robin Rocher will talk about his job and the production pipeline (unfolding) in the major animation studios. He will also talk about his job search experience in the audiovisual world.
This is the time to talk with an important player in the world of 3D animation.
WEEK 2 - IN THE SPOTLIGHT
WEEK 2
Thirty-Three years in the music business, a whole life dedicated to music. After working in the promotion department for multinational record companies such as Warner Music, Virgin Music, BMG and V2, he started his own business, creating one of the most successful music promotion agencies (Tune Fit) and the first music sync and branding agency in Italy (Feedback). Sándor is now Head of Music Strategy and Innovation at Think Louder, a strategic consulting network helping the creative and media industries engage with their customers thanks to the power of music. Think Louder (www.think-louder.com) is the Italian synchronisation agency for Kobalt Music, PIAS, Nettwerk, Position Music and several other rights owners: a combined catalogue of over 6 million songs.
In this masterclass, Sándor will explain how the synchronisation business works and why it’s such an important business and revenue model for artists, record companies, music publishers and artist managers. He will also explain the importance of music as a communication tool for creatives, including brands, film and tv series production companies, emphasising the cultural differences between the Italian and the most valuable markets.
Sergi Cervera is a professional actor, director and producer who started performing at 10. Apart from being an actor in TV, cinema and theatre for the past 20 years, he’s also an acting teacher in schools like Nancy Tuñón, Memory, Complot Escenico, and La Bobina, a filmmaking teacher at SAE and film producing official teacher at the Catalan Government SOC.
SAE Music Business lecturer Tamara Schlesinger talks about the music production house Hen Hoose, which she founded.
In her masterclass, Tamara will look at a portfolio career in the music industry – discussing revenue streams as a music creator and her career releasing music as an independent artist. Tamara will also highlight her work for gender equality in the music industry.
As director of Tantrum Records, solo artist MALKA and former lead singer/songwriter of 6 Day Riot, Tamara Schlesinger has written and released 8 albums in 15 years. She has enjoyed chart success, extensively toured the UK, Europe and North America, has played at numerous festivals such as Glastonbury and Bestival and has achieved acclaim from the major press. Her music has amassed a vast amount of play on national radio, and she regularly syncs her music to domestic TV shows (Skins), US TV shows (Awkward, Finding Carter) and Hollywood films and trailers (Scream 4, 127 Hours).
In this masterclass you will be learning about the evolution of Roland as a company as well as of the technology and gear they have created and are constantly updating.
You will be getting insights into ACB, ABM and plugins and plug-outs.
The speaker will take you through tips and tricks of using gear that you already have in school, at home or that you might want to acquire in the future and will demonstrate practically how technologies are applied today at Roland and how they deploy on the machines available on the market.
Béatrice ODUNLAMI – The content creation for communication – Creation of Web Tv Communication Strategy I Digital I Event | PR | Mécénat | Medias I Community Manager
Geoff is the Programme Coordinator for Games Programming and Web Development at the SAE London campus.
François Theurel is an author, director and web video maker. After obtaining a doctorate in information and communication sciences in 2011 at the University of Avignon, he created the YouTube channel “Le Fossoyeur de Films” in 2012, dedicated to cinema, which now has 802,000 subscribers. Originally oriented on chronicles, the channel offers since 2020 documentaries (Virées Cinéma), playful editing experiments (CUT) and mash-up shorts (Camera Obscura). In 2018, François Theurel published the book “T’as vu le plan” (You saw the plan) at Tana Editions. In 2020, he publishes “Camera Obscura” in Hoebeke editions.
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Link to his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/deadwattsofficiel
Guy has been working in the game industry for 18 years.
He has experience with F2P games, working with Brands such as Bubble Shooter and the football clubs Barca and Arsenal.
He joined “Toya” 3 years ago on a mission to create games on the Metaverse, specifically on Roblox. Toya is a female-led, female-funded award-winning studio focused on creating non-stereotypical content. Toya has tens of millions of monthly users on the Roblox platform and is leading the development and operations of the live roleplay game for the successful TV series “Miraculous Ladybug”.
The future of the web industry is hard to predict except that is quite certain that it develops faster each year. The technology landscape moves at a breakneck pace like nowhere else. This opens amazing career opportunities and introduces many new challenges, as industry requirements are changing quickly.
Vladimir will reveal some secrets on how to enter and become a relevant professional in this fast-paced industry. He will talk about his professional journey and current industry trends and opportunities for students to become digital nomads and have exciting, creative, productive careers.
About the Speaker
Vladimir is a Software architect and full-stack web developer with about 25 years of intensive work experience in the web development industry. He is the Head of the Web Development department at SAE Belgrade campus and
has been an academic lecturer for 12 years. Vladimir is one of the dinosaurs in web development in the Balkans, working for the most prominent brands and startups worldwide. In recent years he has been working mostly in the blockchain and Web3 development field. He is a Director of R&D at MVP Workshop, a European blockchain development pioneer. The R&D unit is called 3327 (https://3337.io), and it is an open and distributed collective of individuals that share the vision, principles, and passion for experimenting with the cutting-edge tech of the future.
Simon has been teaching digital film at SAE since 2015 in a part-time capacity.
Since 2020 Simon has been the Digital Film Programme Coordinator at SAE Glasgow. Alongside his teaching responsibilities, his professional area of focus is promotional videography, such as social media content, music videos and corporate training videos.
This has included working on training videos used during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Simon’s central passion is in storytelling and how it shapes how we understand the world.
Jelle started his studies at SAE Amsterdam and his music career in 2018.
Since then, he has created around 500 musical works that have all been released by various publishers such as BMG Production Music and Warner Chappell Production Music.
Jelle has specialized in minimal, cinematic, and experimental background cues for Film and Television. Besides working mainly in his bedroom studio, he has recorded his compositions with session musicians and orchestra’s around the world.
He has worked on a Celtic hybrid album with vocalist Julie Elven, the main vocalist for the Playstation hit games Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.
More recently, he has recorded a full album with the Fames Project Orchestra in North Macedonia as part of his major project at SAE, which will be published by BMG Production Music.
In this interactive workshop, SAE Athens lecturers Lena Lekkou and George Sisko will explore ways to contribute to open-source projects and different web communities. This is a great way to challenge ourselves, learn something new, get involved with the community, show our skills, meet new people and find new job opportunities. Web community days are a series of online events frequently run by SAE Athens.
Costa Cruises Career Day is an exclusive presentation dedicated to all SAE Institute Audio and Video students and Alumni about the technical positions available at Costa Cruises.
This online event will introduce and explain the roles wanted by Costa Cruises. Students and Alumni can clarify doubts and ask questions before the selection interview event reserved only for SAE members (planned at the beginning of October – the official date will be announced during Career Day).
After the opening greetings and the presentation of the collaboration with SAE Institute, the Costa Cruises HR department managers will introduce the company, talk about the characteristics of life on board the ships, and illustrate the documentation required for embarkment.
Afterwards, the company’s technical managers will present their department, all the state-of-the-art equipment on board and explain the different required roles.
During the presentation, an SAE Alumnus working on board Costa Cruises ships will tell their experience.
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO SAE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ONLY
The Costa Crociere Group
The only Italian company in the sector to fly the Italian flag, the Costa Crociere Group is Italy’s biggest tour operator. Part of the Carnival Corporation & plc Group, listed on the London and New York stock exchanges and a world leader in the sector with a fleet of 103 ships (over 11.5 million passengers in 2016), the Costa Crociere Group is the parent company of the Costa Cruise Lines and AIDA Cruises brands.
With 26 ships in service for an overall capacity of around 76,000 guests, the Group is headquartered in Genoa and operates at a global level, mainly on routes in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean, North and Central America, South America, the Arab Emirates, the Indian Ocean, the Far East and Africa.
Join us for a virtual masterclass with one of SAE’s finest, Ross McIntosh.
The talk will go through the production pipeline of a modern game environment from conceptualisation to publication. We will cover the importance of implementing art theory and principles of composition when creating a game environment. How 2D concepts take shape in the 3D modelling and texturing stages. How the player’s needs inform scene structure and how a final scene comes together within Unreal Engine.
In addition, we will be showcasing some of our student portfolio work, what the course here at SAE Glasgow entails and how you can get involved with the Game Art Industry.
We are delighted to host Ibrahim Clayton and Jacob Topen for our final SAE Futures event of the 2022 Industry Weeks.
Ibrahim and Jacob joined the Digital Film Production degree in 2016 and quickly formed a friendship that led to a series of successful collaborations. Throughout their degree, Ibrahim and Jacob wrote, directed and produced various film projects, including the award-winning ‘Antonio’s Tale’ and the internationally recognised documentary ‘Black Female Cops’.
Since graduating in 2018, Ibrahim and Jacob have continued to work on many projects, including Tove Lo’s ‘Anywhere U Go’ music video, directed by fellow graduate and former classmate Ross Eaglesham. Ibrahim and Jacob have predominantly been developing their careers in comedy productions and have experienced success at festivals and collaborations with BBC Scotland. Here they will talk about their process of collaborating during every stage of the creation of their comedy productions, including writing, directing and editing.
