signal

Signal is a Capstone Project I founded alongside two peers to deliver audio services for the graduating cohort’s final projects. Operating as a freelance collective, we managed the full audio pipeline across four varied productions, mirroring a real agency workflow.

problem

Students are graduating with high-fives and honours, yet they feel like they’ve been dropped into the deep end without a life vest the moment a real-world brief hits their desk. The gap between academic theory and industry reality is widening. While university provides a safe space for conceptual exploration, it often lacks the "messy" variables that define a professional career.

solution

A student-run collective built to turn study into a working industry environment. By approaching projects as real deliverables, we mirror the workflows, expectations, and accountability of professional creative practice. Our goal is straightforward: operate like professionals now, not someday.

The Goal:

When I pitched the idea to our final Major Projects class it came from the idea of collaboration, initially wanting to band together students across multiple disciplines.

Though this didn't eventuate how I had initially visioned, it did however blossom into it's own thing entirely.

By iterating on that core vision, our team defined a clear…

Driving Statement

"To develop real-world strategies and processes that promote collaboration and effectiveness in diverse creative projects."

From there, we liaised with various project groups and were officially taken on as a centralised audio team. Successfully delivering Specialised Audio including Music across 4 distinct projects.