I will be there to meet with you. I'll ask Milan to be there as well since he is like the other half of the creative media team (if not most of it).
But let me give you some basics, since it's pretty simple yet for some reason we are always behind the eight ball (surprise!).
- Theme Graphic & Font: This is usually concocted by Allen and Richie creates the design graphic.
- Bulletins - Used by the Theme Graphic & Font to create the bulletin look
- CD Cover Art - Used by the Theme Graphic & Font to create the cover art for the CD Media Sales duplication
- Banner Web Page - Used by the Theme Graphic & Font to create a banner on the web site
- PowerPoint - Used by the Theme Graphic & Font to create the PowerPoint for the Service Messages
- Transitional Video - i.e. Intro Video - Created by the Media Team (Video Producer I)using the Theme Graphic & Font and other media to create a 30 second transitional video between the Worship and Message (when you say "Greet one another" we RUN THE VIDEO! ) The video takes time to create since the critical element is the music used. It's usually the main challenge other than the timing.
- Stage Elements - aka the Three Screens above the stage require graphic elements based upon the Theme Graphic & Font (are we seeing at concurrent theme yet?). The Stage Elements are dozens of media graphics and require a lot of time to find the media and create the DVD's needed to load it (so remember we can't load elements ad-hoc at time of service) The is also created by the Media Team (Video Producer II)
Each Video Producer I and II require 4 hours (8 hours total) in addition to the others. See this link here that shows the layout of the media team and requirements thereof..
I'm sure you noticed that the main piece of the pie here is the Theme Graphic and Font. It's always been a little tricky or what I would consider ironic that it always comes from the top and we essentially piece together everything else from it, but that's how it's always been.
For December, I have an email from Allen that he is calling Ornament, which details Christ's family tree taking Matthew's genealogy. We can go so many ways with this which is great but Allen may have only a few specific thoughts on it, such as using a basic "ball ornament" rather than "trees".
Well hope that's enough to get us going and feel free to print this out and take it with us when we talk. However, fundamentally, it's going to be up to Allen otherwise we may start backwards and colors and fonts may be out of wack...which has happened before unfortunately. Considering we have three services during the first week of December, we don't have a lot of time!!! For the Media Team (which for this portion is me, Milan and Todd Ellsworth), this is always a scramble. Anyway, Praise the Lord. :) I will have to explain to Kristen that I can't hang out with her that much next week. Praise the Lord.
In Christ,
Randall
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Toby Walters wrote:
Hey guys, I was wondering if you kids would be available for a quick lunch meeting after church on Sunday. I will be stepping into some of Darren's duties with overseeing tech/graphics stuff and would like to touch base with you guys about what we need to do and how we can all function together. I really need to brought up to speed with how things have worked in the past and how I can serve you guys so things go smoothly. Let me know if that works, we can do something very easy...Taco Bell or something else close. Randall, could you forward this to Milan as well? I would love for him to be there also.
Thanks guys,
Toby
