My work lately has been rather...varied.
Last week i was preparing a sort of war games style activity morning for the guy staff here at the base- i had a blast brainstorming it up. I typed up cryptically worded "operations" for the "task forces" to accomplish- racing both the clock and the opposing team. Each "operative" have a strip of duct tape on his shirt back- a kill strip. If they were found "rogue" -away from their team or a partner- the opposing team could seize the tape and receive points. Teams first had to use gps to find their op site which was given to them only as numerical coordinates, and then on location (a pine forrest) they had to locate a specific designated ravine my friend and i had planted "mines" in. The mines were buried green plastic army men with paint dipped heads...marked by painted kabob stick antennas. Each team needed to collect their 16 mines- which had been numbered and each had a letter on them. If they placed them in numerical order (none of this was explained by the way, only cryptically eluded to by reference to "data caches" and "encrypted intel"), the letters spelled out the name of a coding system. If they googled the name of the system, they would find out how it works and decode the random letters across the bottom of their mission directives paper. Decoded, it spelled out the name of my blog. If they then went to my blog site, they would find a bonus mission: a list of photos to take, objects to obtain, etc. for bonus points. One team made it all the way through- i was so stoked! And they were thrilled, as well...to have run around a forrest dodging the enemy, using their wits...so the guys had a great morning together: mission accomplished:)
This week I am back onto projects more directly related to my work.
One of my colleagues and i have taken on the production of informational and promotional resources for our upcoming Reformation Generation summer seminar event. This week we undertook to shoot our first promo video- a creative feature outlining some of what is at the heart of the event. He filmed and did tech, while i scripted and directed. Monday and Tuesday we will edit and do audio work...by Wednesday i hope to share the published version online.
Our promo, which i call "The (other) Notebook", kept us in a dark room MacGyvering bedside lamps and other miscellaneous around a curiously suspended camera for most of Friday. I am excited to see our final result and share it with you.
And praise the Lord- we have already received our first application for the event! We are so excited to see God answering our prayers as we ask Him to stir up the hearts of the young people He wants to touch and equip through Reformation Generation. We pray that we can extend this opportunity through word of mouth and online video clips like the one we have underway.
My projects will continue to vary in the coming weeks as we continue creating videos and promotional material, but all too soon it will harden into coordinating logistics for the event. For the time being, I am enjoying the projects:)
These pics are from the "set" of The (other) Notebook, starring...well, me. Or my hands at least.
You'll understand when you see it.
