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The Cre-8 Crew: The Director

So, the first character within our Cre-8 Crew that I want to introduce is the person that proposes it all and steers the project throughout its life cycle. This person in our crew is The Director.

Also known in certain fields as a team leader or supervisor, the director is the lead for these aforementioned respective ‘makers’ and is accountable for the production element of the project. This doesn’t necessarily mean they will be the boss, but more of a guide that will decide if each element matches up and may make light suggestion on the  techniques they might like to see/hear/experience (whilst being careful not to tell people how to do their job).

This position on the surface can seem an odd one. The person at the top, yet also the person with the ability to sit to the side and let their team work.

In your creative or educational projects, the Director should be responsible at the overseeing level to ensure that each element that is brought to them from the other members of the team meets the objectives and the brief set out either by them or by the client that has commissioned it. They often receive news or updates on these elements through team or one to one meetings.

An often overlooked or misunderstood responsibility for the Director is to ensure that good communication is not only given to them, but that both their response is clearly communicated to the whole team, but that communication flows clearly between all members too. They often say that a chain is as strong as it’s weakest link and a lack of communication definitely weakens the link!

Within a large and complex project, a team like the Cre-8 Crew can achieve things easily with the steering and Quality Assurance of the project leading Director and the feedback and actions of his colleagues.

Mike

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