Ethan Harris (BA Video Design for Live Performance)

Biography

What's been your highlight during your time at Guildhall?

Of all the projects I’ve worked on at Guildhall the highlight for me has to be video engineering OrchestRAM.  The technical intricacy it demanded, and its sheer scale pushed me far more than any other project. I was really proud of how I was able to manage the short fit up time and how solid the engineering was in use. I learned so much from it that I suspect it’s going to make a lot of my future work seem easy by comparison. 

What other passions and projects have you enjoyed exploring during your time at Guildhall?

The technical freedom of end of year personal projects has let me push myself to try things far outside the normal. I love messing with perception and perspective as well as exploring story-telling and interactivity in various forms. Projects like my perspective projection cube have been almost equal parts amazing and entertainingly frustrating to achieve. 

What's something you've learned that you feel will help you when you graduate?

For me, it’s the development of my soft skills I value most; communicating and smoothly cooperating across and within departments of a project or show. On the technical- as well as soft skills side, the opportunity to develop my own process against a range of different projects and show types will be invaluable in the future. 

What are you most interested in working in after you graduate?

Video engineering is definitely my happy place and I enjoy creating solid, creative engineering solutions that are easy to install, operate and strike. My ideal would be to be able to work across a constantly varied range of both theatre and live events. 

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