Week 1-Art Department

A considerable amount of information is written for each department within both the job descriptions and the manual. The Visions manual contains an elaborately organized schedule of all events and festival activities; among the list events are tasks required to be completed. This is useful as they are already available for everyone to view and utilize, however it should probably be assumed that several of these tasks are subject to change. Overall, it seems that coordination is the key factor behind the manual. The job descriptions from the documents that were available in the administration folder gave an (per member/group) applicable amount of insight into each of the occupations that make up (certain sections of) the Visions staff. The first document consists mainly of the descriptions for the Hospitality/Travel and Outreach department. After reviewing it, I noticed the division of labor particularly in groups structured hierarchically; the first segment included basic areas of responsibility, while the rest of the document had information about each of the members and the specifics of their jobs. The second document with the descriptions for the Operations department was exactly the same. I hope to learn how a film festival works! As far as how meetings are regulated go, it really does seem like the heart of a (redundant as it may sound) entertainment business operation. My experience on the first day was the equivalent of a goldfish being dropped into a shark tank. But overall, the class will be an extremely beneficial learning experience for myself and the newer members of Visions.