[nurettin]

All of these anecdotes have something in common. That the person who is asked to do something is informed about proper procedures. That is uncommon in IT, and especially in companies where proper procedure is too costly and not worth pursuing.

[atoav]

It is still a communications problem. They want you to do the minimum. If I as a camera person do the real minimum the director will be pleased on set but they will get a heart attack in the editing room.

It easier to give in, take short cuts and produce garbage than explaining them under extreme stress that everything faster will result in nothing.

In my eyes it is comparable and I worked in both industries. The difference is, that as a DOP in film your name will be associated with the mess on the screen, while in IT the link is not that clear. This makes the difference.

And unless your director has a monitor (which they sometimes don’t) they cannot tell at all what you are doing. They wouldn’t even realize if you didn’t even switch the camera on.

I know that film or engineering is more