Total Sportscasting

Chapter 15Directing and the Flow of the Crew

Introduction

When you sit down in a concert hall before a symphony orchestra performance, you often hear the very dissonant sound of different instruments. The clarinet might be rolling up and down scales, a violin section might be running through some plucking of strings, the timpani drum is tuning, and overall everyone is on their own page, getting ready in their own way on what seems like a hundred different pages from a hundred different books. What happens when the conductor arrives and simply taps their baton? Hopefully, the orchestra unifies into a single unit and prepares to make a cooperative journey through several pieces of music.

Before a sporting event, you will also find a group of people ...