Recruiting new media team members

[kkitchen]

I am trying to recruit some new team members for the media team. I am trying to put together a questionaire for potentional members and wondered if anybody had any samples for me to glean from.

Thanks,

Ken

[[Director] Joseph B]

Your media team members can read?!?!

[kbob]

well, usually my best successes in terms of recruiting new volunteers is just asking one on one if they're interested. What is it you're trying to accomplish with this exactly? Inventory purposes only, or something more?

[cjlowe]

Originally Posted by Joseph B

Your media team members can read?!?!

No, no. The media team does things visually - the questionnaire consists of a page of sequences of photos which tell out stories, forming questions. 

[waynehoskins]

Here's something I threw together a while back. Have yet to actually use it, even though my crew has grown by word-of-mouth and "ooh, that's cool, can I learn?".

Well, I was going to attach it but the thing wouldn't let me, so here's the text:

bt

TECHNICAL CREW INFORMATION

ABOUT YOU
Name, phone, email, other contact stuff:

EXPERIENCE
Do you have any experience related to technical produciton? If so, describe it briefly.

FOCUS OR INTERESTS
Are there any particular areas of production you are particularly interested in?

SCHEDULING
Availability (particularly Sundays): are you out of town a lot?, do you take evening classes?, etc.
How often do you want (or are you available) to serve?

TRAINING
How often do you think we should hold training sessions on various aspects of stuff? What times are most convenient for you?
What topics would you be most interested in covering soon?

[shayward]

I think the size of your church determines how formal you should be. If you know the first name of everyone in the church the questionaire might not be needed.

But you get into a church of even 100 people and if you don't know everyone's level of technical expertise I would go with what Wayne has suggested. It's smack on everything you need to know without overwhelming them. It's also open ended, allowing them to give as much or as little input to each.

If you have a larger church, I'd look at recruting for specific disciplines (projection, graphic design, sound, video) with people holding either apprentice or operator position in one or more of the disciplines.

[kkitchen]

Thanks for all the responses, especially waynehoskins. That helps me get started.

[MikeyPete]

Take notice without letting them you are doing that. Sooner or later at a special event there will be a person who has a camera who may seem to be a little trigger happy with it. Then approach that person and eventually ask if you may see a few photos. Where or how they get their prints, etc. The photography part of the media team is flexible. Where a $90 camera can be as useful as a $1,000 camera. Offer and take tips from other people. The main thing is to get people to take photos with what they're comfortable while being themselves.