Me too. I still volunteer at the local CC doing everything from floor
directing to last-second editing to running the teleprompter (because the
students can't work a knob or read well--your choice) for house-produced
feature shows.
Cameraman asked me to work a twenty-foot boom once for a pull-back at the
end of the show, something to roll credits over. As I tilted this giant
see-saw monstrosity up to the ceiling, I ended up cracking the camera on
one of the lights. Oh well, at least it wasn't a Sony Red 4k.
One of the fun things we came up with was changing a film-review show
from the standard "single-host reading a prompter" to a pair of hosts who
improvised their comments. We just put bulleted notes on the prompter and
they talked between themselves. Their dynamic worked really well, which
is a matter of luck. The only trouble was keeping them within time
constraints, I think mostly because they were having so much fun. Worked
really well.
Small world. Let's see AI robots do that.