The most critical part for me is positioning, ensuring a good clean angle.
If there is a video team they will have a great spot, central and probably slightly elevated, so working close to them or on ladders slightly behind and above will increase your chance of bagging equally good images.
There really isn't much time for reviewing past the first test shots, once all the exposure settings are set run with it, Manual is the way to go in this environment, maybe worth locking the camera up by switching the power button to ON if your a Canon shooter. With the power switch set to ON the speed dial functionality is turned off, stops you accidentally changing the f-stop and the look of your images mid shoot 8:)
Now that you have bagged a great spot and done some damage limitation, the camera focusing and shooting needs to primed to shoot when you want to shoot, select a focus mode to work as fast as possible, take as many shots as possible with as little fuss as possible.
The fastest shoot mode will be burst, take care of over use, shooting RAW will soon fill up the camera's buffer. Filling up the buffer is one sure way to loose shots while the camera dumps the files to the memory card, so some caution there.
Make sure you have large memory cards, you really don't want to be switching mid shoot if possible.
There's an overview without being too technical, work smart, work fast.
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