(09-08-2013, 03:27 AM)Tomato Cat Wrote: Do any of you ever feel that no matter how much you study into the field pertaining to your career that you'll fall short and be utterly and woefully ill-equipped to hold a decent job?
Absolutely.
I have a pretty good example too. I study Media and Film (two separate subjects by the way), they both include coursework that involves essays on theory but also on production. The theory is taught pretty well as it's just a matter of listening and taking everything in. When it comes to production though its really bad though. Production last year was to make a music video in media and a short horror sequence in film. May sound fun I know.
The truth is, it felt as if they told us all "here is your project your need to do, here is some old crappy faulty equipment, now good luck!". Not even joking. On every occasion they gave us stuff, one part of it was broke. It set my group in film back so much we didn't have enough time to even complete the project. We were thrown into the deep end. I don't think anybody was comfortable with what we were given to do.
It was an experience for sure but until I get shown properly how to film and use equipment professionally I don't think i'll ever really understand. Letting students try and figure things out for themselves is not good teaching.
For those practical assignments, the most beneficial thing would be to do on-the-job training with someone who does it professionally. No opportunity for that here though.