Building Your Team
When you consider the tasks you must accomplish, think of people who can help. Assign roles according to group members’ skills, interests, and personalities.
Example Project-Role Sheet
Project: Video About Military Veteran Rehabilitation
Roles | Team Members | Responsibilities |
Project Manager | Denice Sobiech | Project scheduling and troubleshooting |
Interviewers | Burton Raboin, Pamella Emard, Arminda Ferrar | Arranging and conducting interviews |
AV Recorders | Denice Sobiech, Leif Semas, Felix Hofacker | Record audio and/or video of interviews |
Storyboarder | Burton Raboin | Review recordings and plan a final video script |
AV Editor | Leif Semas | Create the final video |
Web Person | Felix Hofacker | Build a Web page for the video, upload the file, and link it |
Class Presenters | Entire Group | Introduce the video in class, describe the project process, and lead a Q&A session |
Common Roles
The following list identifies a number of common roles necessary to the completion of various projects. Many of these are career oriented.
Accountant
Actor
Advocate
Announcer
Artist
Athlete
Builder
Caregiver
Chef
Comedian
Composer
Counselor
Debater
Designer
Director
Disk jockey
Editor
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Explorer
Film editor
Futurist
Game designer
Host
Interviewer
Leader
Manager
Marketer
Mechanic
Musician
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Programmer
Promoter
Reporter
Salesperson
Scientist
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Statistician
Tailor
Teacher
Technician
Welder
Writer
Zoologist
Your Turn Working alone or in a team, make a list of roles for your own project, define responsibilities, and assign members to each role.