Assignment 3-Weblog

On Friday 25th of May my production crew I was involved in completed our first "Hello Riverina" Assessment. I thought we performed particularly well, especially the control room and Marcus as DA. I was in charge of tapes and I think I performed reasonably well, having my tapes ready on cue for all the practices and in particular the recorded run-through. The floor was good from the acting talent to the cable bashers with perhaps a slightly more energised room could be one of the few comments I could make.
On my overall performance, a few things i could have done is get to the studio a bit earlier- i got there 9 minutes early but the rest of the crew were already there and had started setting up. I could have gotten there a bit earlier and helped out on the floor once I had my tapes in and had found all the times to mark out on the tapes. Another thing I could have done is make sure that I had stopped the tapes once I no longer needed them as I apparently left one running at the end of the session.
My comment on working as the tapes operator is that it is a reasonable job as long as you stay focused, pay attention and keep calm. I found the tasks such as finding the right places on the tapes and playing certain tapes at the right time pretty comfortable. I think if you listen to the DA and stay focused tapes operator can be done pretty successfully as long as you don't mind the slightly cold temperature and the isolation.