Reflection

This week was definitely the hardest one for me of the semester with the event coming and going smoothly. The day of the event went smoothly from the outside, but when you're inside the control room there is an extremely high level of stress. Issues come and go such as the projector shutting off, chairs missing, videos missing, and subtitles missing. All of those things weren't, at least to my knowledge, known by the audience but in the booth all of us were acutely aware. The video race and mic issues were the things that I wish I could go back and change or go back and teach others how to deal with. The video race came out well and there was not much that we could do once it began, but the problem I ran into was the lack of knowledge of groups. Since I am a very direct person and I like to have everything in a row and in on time (Should it affect others or an event), I was frustrated when I didn't know how much time I had or how many groups I needed to get back on track. With an event on a time limit I had to take the lead on a project that was not mine to handle, not that they could not have handled it on their own time, but their job directly impacted mine. And there was no way I was going to let time tick by. The other thing was the microphone checks and walkthroughs with staff. There were a few problems with hearing feedback or crackling sounds from the mic-runners when they were taking questions. I should have told them to mute the microphones the entire time unless they were having someone speak through them. These things aren't a big deal, but in the scheme of things they stressed me out slightly. The projector issues were out of my control, but were the worst of the stressors of that day.