Exclusive placement opportunities at Laneway Festival
We’re throwing the gates open to all current JMC students across our campuses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane who are interested in gaining some hands-on industry experience working as a part of the Laneway Festival team!
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ROLES AVAILABLE
From festival comms through to stage production and SFX design, we have roles to suit every area of creative interest and we’re determined to find the perfect student for each individual placement. We’d call it an internship, but really it feels so much more valuable than that. There will be NO coffee run duties here, only getting down to the nitty gritty of running a festival!
Supporting the Laneway Team through:
- Assisting with packing of artist riders
- Assisting with all artist Back of House (BOH) requirements
- Assist with any ad-hoc event managements requirements from an Artist Liaison perspective
Desirable skills:
- Customer relations/community engagement
- Event management
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Logistics coordination
- Copywriting and creation of official event documents
- Event planning and set up
- Set dressing
- Design
This role would best suit an Entertainment Business Management Student
Supporting the Laneway & Aeroplane Agency with the Laneway event activations through:
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Pre-event activation briefing meetings
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Assistance with logistics coordination
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Assistance with risk management
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Assisting with stakeholder management
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Pre-event planning and set up
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Activation dressing and placements
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Assistance with event management from a partnerships perspective
Desirable skills:
- Customer relations/community engagement
- Event management
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Logistics coordination
- Copywriting and creation of official event documents
- Event planning and set up
- Set dressing
- Design
This role would best suit an Entertainment Business Management student.
Assisting in the capture of Laneway performances for streaming on stage. Working in the tent and assisting the camera operations team. Note: Not a roaming cam
Desirable skills:
- Signal flow
- Streaming processes
- Composition/thirds
- Camera confident
This role would best suit a Film & Television student.
- Graphic design
- Interactive visual design
- Strong digital literacy & computational skills
- Automating technology processes
This role would best suit a Animation/Design (Visual Communication) student.
Assisting the live sound team at Laneway Festival.
Desirable skills:
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Signal flow knowledge
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Problem solving skills
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Rolling mic leads
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Attention to detail
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Setting up mics and sound equipment
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People skills
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Can work under pressure and to a schedule
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Familiarity with industry standard equipment
This role would best suit an Audio Engineering/Music Production student.
Assisting the Audio stage team at Laneway Festival.
Desirable skills:
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Signal flow knowledge
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Problem solving skills
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Rolling mic leads
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Attention to detail
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Setting up mics and sound equipment
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People skills
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Can work under pressure and to a schedule
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Familiarity with industry standard equipment
This role would best suit an Audio Engineering/Music Production student.
Supporting to deliver Laneway partner marketing benefits by capturing brand activation content. Assist with briefing photographers and select your favourite captured content – which will make its way to Laneway social channels.
Desirable skills:
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Knowledge of briefing onsite photographers
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Assisting with briefing sessions pre-festival
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Awareness of lighting types, lighting for video
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Sound knowledge of content capture techniques for various social media channels
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Vertical video recording/production skills
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Basic interviewing skills
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Sound photography skills and phone photography skills
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Performance and presenting skills
This role would best suit a Entertainment Business Management/Acting student.