Seating plans
This comes under the ‘dull but necessary’ category of the director’s work. One person (normally the director) needs to decide where each guest is to sit. This information is distributed in a simple form that everyone will understand. Do not make it more complicated than it needs to be.
The floor manager will make sure the guests have arrived, gone through make-up and are sitting on the right seat in time for the planned slot. If they are not going to be ready (e.g. guest fails to arrive) the FM should let you know in sufficient time for you to make alternative arrangements.
The sound team will usually want to mark up microphone channels on the sound desk with the name of the guests.
Vision mixers find it useful to have a seating ...
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