A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu.
Respectfully to Lao Tzu I disagree; leadership is defined as 'the action of leading a group of people or an organisation, or the ability to do this' a leader would be something of a fixed point of control in times of crisis and panic someone that people can rely on to have a plan.
While I was not the leader I was one of four that worked together closely to ensure that everything went smoothly during production and the live event.
Being one of the producers in the prerecorded student awards and the gallery director in the live was a challenge for me as I had never done any sort of role as a director or producer in other works before and thus was unsure of whether I was doing the role correctly.
Comparing my role in this project to a role in the industry I had to act in a similar way to how a professional and experienced director and producer which meant that I had to use the same language and terms and I also had to be aware of everything going around me while focusing on the screens.
As gallery director I had to do a number of important jobs with the rest of the crew that would ensure that filming went as smoothly as possible. I had to manage what was going to be shown on the screen following the running order given to me, which meant I had to work closely with the vision mixer, four camera operators and the floor manager.
Talking into the microphones to address the camera operators , the vision mixer and the floor manager on the set was part of being a director and it was an important part of it as this was the only means of communication between the floor and me, additionally I had to use the correct language while counting down to the inserts that would be played to the audience and would be part of the recording and keep calm under pressure.
An example of this is when during the live filming one of my camera operators camera went completely black and then was told on inquiry that it was because of a low battery and the vision mixer and I had to use the two remaining cameras that were working until the runner I sent with the battery had gotten to the camera.
In this situation me and the vision mixer had to remain calm and carry on with filming despite our lack of variation in camera shots.
Unfortunately I did lose my temper at one point before the live filming because two of my camera operators were having the starting of an argument and would most definitely not listen to me if I had not raised my voice to silence them but I quickly realised that although yelling was essentially effective it was not professional and I became determined to not do it again which I did not.
I was also one of four producers in the preproduction of the openings and inserts however I did often have problems from the start as I was absent for two weeks consecutively at the beginning which definitely caused problems with a majority of the work and in result my crew often did not report back to me with details of work making it difficult to make plans with teachers and students for filming.
I also had to compare drafts and information with our client and use their feedback to improve our inserts and that is something a professional producer would've done.
