“All the dragons in our lives are perhaps princesses expecting us to be handsome and brave.
All the terrifying things are perhaps nothing but helpless things waiting for us to help them”
The Win: The win is the identifiable goal of the actual production. What is the point? What is the take away?
As a producer and being heavily involved in Student Production, I often find myself running around on the day and night of our event trying to shore up lose ends and make sure people are in place. Although, its pretty much my job, it's not something that is sustainable. Keeping at the pace and work ethic, you'll (I'll) soon find myself weary and empty and not really functioning as the Lord has called me to function.
Producing worship services requires us to have the win in mind always. One thing that I like to do is to seek out from our Speaker/Preacher/Teacher what the sermon and altar time is going to be about. With this information, I can get a good idea of the goal of the night and then structure everything that we do around it. We try to make sure that the entire event drives towards this win and encorpoartes the theme of the evening.
Having identified the Win, I'm able to really structure out my week and and plan effectively what needs to get done and by who. If producing the Win is the goal then all of your production meetings are centered around that. Every task that you complete for your event is solely focused there. If this is accomplished then you, if you have planned and executed, then during your event you should be able to just coast...knowing every moment, every transition, every cue is driving the event straight toward the win.