As a senior producer, what is the most difficult aspect of the job - managing people/time, hitting schedule milestones, facilitating communication or staying within budget?asked by Nostromo1977

Yes, balancing all of those...

Yes, they're all related.

I think the hardest thing for me, I apologize for jumping in.

No, no it's your question.

How dare you... [laughs]... is balancing all of those, that's the hardest thing. I don't think any one of those specifically is harder than the other. Each of them take different types of skills, right. So, working alongside people, leading them, helping inspire them to do great work, that takes a lot more soft skills, right. So, it depends on your ability as a producer, I talked about this in Around the 'Verse a week or so ago was there are different kinds of senior producers. Everybody has complimentary, hopefully, skill sets that help each other work together, make a great team. So, some people are really focused on soft skills and just helping unify a team and building that communication hub, that just syncs together. Some are more technical, some love to build schedules, we all kinda have synchronistic skills, I think.

I think you and I kinda exemplify that relationship...

Totally.

I'm...eh...at scheduling. As far as things go it's not my strongest suit and I think you're really strong at scheduling and you excel on that side. We both, I would say, have pretty good soft skills we're commensurate in that and then your focus is much more heavily on the art and the scheduling and the pipeline side and I think you know that really well. My focus is probably more on the technical and the design side...

Totally.

So, I think that's why we're a good team.

Totally, I agree. I don't think one would be harder than the other for each of us, using as examples, I think it just depends on what your core strengths are and then finding the people in your team to help round out those skills so we can all get this thing done. I think Nostromo pointed out some great points, that those are the main things we are looking at as producers. Those are the main core items and trying to come in under budget with a fantastically, greatly working team that communicates awesome, we're hitting as many milestones as we can to get out the best possible experience we can. That's our goal so we have to look at all those different, going back to what you said, pillars of producing. I think balancing is the harder part for sure.

Yeah, I think that is the most difficult, it's a juggling act. I don't know how many times I've used that analogy but it's like plate spinning, juggling, it's all that.

Great question, thank you.