[atoav]

There is never a real lack of hierarchies tho. It is just that everybody has their own (which turns out to have a similar effect). If you are lucky all of the hierarchies people have in their heads align with each other. But it helps to have this formalized.

As someone who worked on quite some film sets: Contrary to the assumption many people have, clear roles and responsibilities are good for creativity. In the end the director ans the producer will decide on things, but on a good film set the best idea wins and so the director and producer would be idiots not to listen to their team when they have them.

[sashank_1509]

That’s a great point, never thought of it that way. Hierarchies always exist, if everyone’s aligned you need not formalize it (very rare), else formalizing it helps.