2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

My understanding is that SRE is in charge of scripting all of those ceremonies and handling the majority of the production. That's what they're paid to do and manage.

I can tell you that, at the District level, that is mostly correct. Except for the scripts proceeding the judge's scripts (The "blah blah blah award celebrates blah blah blah"), those are provided by HQ to the Judge Advisor. The JA then fills in the scripts the judges write about the winners. These are then supposed to be proofed by the JA and the production company. The slides are also put together either by the JA or the production company. To my knowledge, these templates are all provided by HQ.

The awards are put together by awards assistants who are also the folks who handle making sure they go to the judges. (Nit pick, the Awards Assistant during opening ceremonies was wearing khakis and it was incredibly distracting, that's a black shirt black pants job at that event)

Otherwise, you're right, the production company is generally responsible for making sure the AV is functional, the cameras are pointed right, and the event goes off on time. I'd be interested in finding out what caused the delays, mostly on Einstein.


(Edit: Carolyn, I'm pretty confident you know all of this, I mostly typed it up for folks who haven't been on the other side of the event. There's a ton that has to come together to make a ceremony go off. And there ARE quite a few different groups that each have distinct leadership.)