Church Production Magazine: There’s no getting around the need for tactile knowledge of AVL systems for someone in a production lead role. Likely, you’re an expert in just one of those areas with a working knowledge of the others, or you’re like me—a generalist who’s willing to do some homework when needed. Either way, no production leader could do their job without the basic skills needed to complete it, but being a production leader requires skills that are usually intangible.
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I was hoping that this article would have more tangible production about the various ways to productively manage a group of volunteers, but it did not. I do however think that church production is an interesting world to manage because you have similar constraints as in a commercial production, but there can be a lot more variety and some different constraints. Generally, the majority if not all of the work in church productions is done by volunteers, who may have little to no professional production training. The scale of production expected and the budgets of church productions can also be disjunct from reality. People in the leadership of churches do not have the production experience of knowing roughly how much effort it will take to accomplish a purpose. Churches also have a wide range in budgets, from a small, struggling congregation that just needs to be able to amplify a keyboard, to a megachurch with 5 campuses flying musicians around the auditorium. My personal opinion is that a high level of production is not necessary for a service, other than making sure that the preacher can be heard and seen.
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