I'm not saying I'm good, but...

Today at work, I had to shoot what has previously been called a "comander's corner" radio show. What happens is the base commander comes to the AFN radio studio, and talks about whatever they want. Well, in Korea, AFN brings up the highest-ranking enlisted individual (Command Sergeant Major for USFK) and lets him do the talking. It's nothing I haven't done before, but apparently, no one changes angles or uses lighting, because when I turned in my footage, the higher ups were floored. I dunno, I don't think it's because I'm good at my job this time. I think there's a serious lack of training here.
On a similar note, I was doing some final inprocessing today, and when I returned to AFN, I saw a bunch of my coworkers brainstorming. I joined in for lack of something better to do, and learned they're trying to come up with a campaign to market AFN to the base. At the time I joined the conversation, the person in charge had written down:

"3 radio spots"
"1 TV spot"
and three catch phrases for them to use.

THANK GOODNESS I WENT TO THE BROADCAST MANAGER'S COURSE!
I explained to the leader what a real ad campaign consists of, and the whole group was floored. They never thought that a campaign was more than making a couple of commercials with the same idea. I told them about what my BMC instructors showed me a campaign could be, and now I'm the office "Creativity Consultant." Another job title, but the most fun one I have. I get to hear spot pitches, and tell our producers if I like it, or if I think it needs work. That's it! So on top of doing my regular producer job, and supervising my Airmen, and assigning spots and news shoots, NOW I get to have the fun job of hearing people be creative. No sarcasm here, I really like the idea of the Army letting its Soldiers be creative (to a point) and I'm the authority for right now. That's cool with me.

So, next week my shipment arrives, and then I'll be done inprocessing and work will be "game on." I hope it's as fun as it sounds like it could be!