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NFL Draft
with RTL

Case Study

Project Overview​

Position: Freelance
Role: Production Assistant
Company: Monson Media LLC
Date & Duration: April 24, 2026

Summary

I supported production on-site for the NFL Draft, a live, nationally broadcast event, assisting the crew with logistics and on-set needs under real broadcast time pressure.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Supported the production crew with equipment staging, logistics, and on-set needs throughout the event

  • Helped keep operations moving on schedule under live-broadcast time constraints

  • Assisted wherever the crew needed additional hands during setup, the live window, and breakdown

Process

  • Arrived on-site to find the RTL set already fully built and running; the day centered on supporting the crew rather than building anything from scratch

  • Spent most of the day handling equipment and food runs to keep the crew fueled and focused during a long live event day

  • At wrap, shifted into helping break down and pack out equipment

  • Worked alongside a German production crew (RTL), which gave me a chance to use my German in a real, professional setting. Conversation was limited since I'm not yet fluent, but it was a genuinely useful test of what I'd actually learned

Reflection

This job reinforced that not every valuable production role involves being hands-on with a camera; sometimes the most useful thing you can do is keep the people who are running the show fed, equipped, and able to focus. It was also a good real-world check on my German: conversational enough to connect with the crew, but a clear reminder of how much more fluency work I still have ahead of me.

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