Now that we're two days removed from our first preview, here are some things that we learned as a team:
1) We knew we had a lot to setup, but we didn't really have tasks assigned. So we ended up looking like a 5 year old soccer team - all of us together running around chasing the same problem.
2) Flexibility is the name of the game in a portable environment. When we showed up, there were 200 chairs set up and the back wall of the gym was open into the cafeteria. While we ended up getting it closed and most of the chairs put away, right from the start we had obstacles we weren't planning on.
3) We needed start times for each of our jobs. What time should we be at the door greeting? What time should the band be done? What time should kids registration start? etc.
4) Our screen is too big. Seriously a 9' x 12' screen is cool, but way too big for our setting. Because of the size we had very little flexibility on our setup and it had to be way over on the side which caused people to look sideways to see it.
5) Transitions. They need work.
6) Borrowing from three different sound systems is confusing. It made for a much more complex setup and teardown. "Is this mine, or yours, or theirs?" Next time we'll try and piece enough together to use just our own stuff.
7) Connection Cards are awkward. We didn't really know when in the service to do them, and it just felt weird.
8) Money. In our effort to not talk much about money and not make an offering a big deal - we ended up making it a big deal. haha.
9) Our band rocked. Too bad they may be all different next time!
10) This is stinking fun. I could give my life to this kind of thing.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
First Preview
1 comments:
Great recap!
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