Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
I’ll just chime in as one of the AV monkeys to voice my piece on recording or not-recording. I am 1000% fine with the performers, or whomever else is in public, wanting either bits or all of their cruise performance or experience to not be recorded. In fact, it saves me buckets of time and effort to have less to worry about other than getting myself to the theater and watching rather than lugging, voluntarily so of course, my camera equipment and fussing about batteries, memory cards and such. It’s a catharsis of sorts for me when the request is put out to not record, so it’s out of my hands, don’t have to think about it, and I don’t sweat the small stuff and just enjoy the show.
That being said, Home Office, if at all possible, can you please try for next year to have some pre-schedule or pre-show direction from the performers to designate non-recording shows? I understand that things will always be in flux, and someone can change their mind at any time, but if for some reason an artist feels that their performance is best viewed to their own specifications, letting us AV folks know ahead of time benefits everyone. Still have JoCo announce that it not be recorded at show time in case the normal communication channels are missed (and that seems to be the case from earlier posts in this thread), but giving us a heads up early enough to plan for Camera Temperance helps with time management.
Other than that, keep up the awesome work and see you next year.