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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / REPORTS: Including Human Error
« on: May 15, 2014, 05:34 pm »
Hi everyone,
I just opened a show last night so of course all the higher ups of the company I am working for were in the audience. During the show I am responsible for running both the sound and light boards. Last night was the first time I have ever made the mistake of hitting the back button instead of the go button. The lighting designer came in and helped me fix the problem and showed me after the show how to troubleshoot the issue.
When filling out my report for the evening I considered including this incident but decided against it since it was human error and I was shown how to fix the problem. Since last night I have gotten a call asking why I had not included this incident in the report.
My question to you all is have you ever included human error in a report? And if so how did you phrase it cause I couldn't think of any way of saying it other than the stage manager messed up and it wouldn't happen again.
Thanks.
I just opened a show last night so of course all the higher ups of the company I am working for were in the audience. During the show I am responsible for running both the sound and light boards. Last night was the first time I have ever made the mistake of hitting the back button instead of the go button. The lighting designer came in and helped me fix the problem and showed me after the show how to troubleshoot the issue.
When filling out my report for the evening I considered including this incident but decided against it since it was human error and I was shown how to fix the problem. Since last night I have gotten a call asking why I had not included this incident in the report.
My question to you all is have you ever included human error in a report? And if so how did you phrase it cause I couldn't think of any way of saying it other than the stage manager messed up and it wouldn't happen again.
Thanks.