Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You find another camera to do the job.
You don't have a camera of such high quality readily available, so
you decide to rely on other shooting angles for the show. In 25 minutes, the
show begins rolling, and the camera operators get to work.
After the show, the producer is angry about the quality of the show, saying
that he expects good quality technical production every day. You explain the
problem. The producer asks if you tried to fix the camera before finding another
solution.
He storms over, looks at the camera, removes a bit of dirt jammed in the
lens, and solves the problem.
"The final step after your shoot is to figure out how to not let this happen
again," says engineering manager Joe Conlon.
"Do these things need to be checked sooner? Planning to set up three hours
ahead of time is great, but if you don't test everything until you're going
to use it, that's where you run into the issues."