Church Production Magazine: Part-time, full-time, staffer or contractor, what type of talent does your tech team need? A seasoned church production director shares his approach to hiring, and the key character traits he looks for in his chosen candidate.
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Something that I love that this article pointed out is the need for consistency. Though I am not necessarily an advocate for always doing things the way that they have been done, consistency and institutional knowledge are key. Even if it is having just trust with each other, it is important to have consistent people, which can be afforded by a staff member who is full time. One thing that this article also brought up is the need for consistent quality, which isn’t something I thought of but I think is so important. Though I haven’t been in a church or temple service with volunteers running the sound (thank God), I can’t imagine the stress that it would cause having an amateur do the sound. My eardrums hurt just thinking about it. I think the point about attitude is also really important. I think this is true about anywhere you work but especially a religious place where people are going to for support. Being positive and kind goes a long way. I think also talent is important and I am glad that this article brought up talent and full-time staff members. It might be more expensive but talented people know their worth for the most part and need to be paid currently (for ethical reasons but also because they are doing a good job). One note is it is so nice seeing an article that uses gender-neutral pronouns even if it does make you click on multiple pages to read the full article (why isn’t it on infinite scroll?).
This was an interesting article to me as I was a member of a Church Tech Team once upon a time. I find this article because I was apart of the church that simply took in volunteers and students who had little to no experience in the field. I was one the few members that did have some for of A/V background and found myself working more often with the team but all of the points of the article held true with what happened at my church. At one point we even had to start rotating A/V techs through different services that we had to spread out the differences as some people would actively choose not to go to an 11:45 over an 8:45 solely based off of who was going to be doing the audio for said show. That being said I think things have since changed significantly especially since the church has seen such a large shift to online streaming and the importance of camera switching has introduced a new crew of A/V Techs.
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