maintenance

Tonight warren and i got together to do some maintenance at church. we replaced the old globe in our main projector and you could notice a huge difference. videos especially are much clearer..
Also we repositioned the main spots as well as the left front of house speaker.
Over the coming weeks we have some other jobs lined up, as well as having other long term maintenance jobs that i'll do while at work.

willow creek leadership summit - Wesley theatre.

we went to willow creek leadership summit, at the wesley international congregation, in Pitt street Sydney. It was a really good conference. I'll blog about it soon, but i just want to blog about the room and tech.
It was really good. Overall, sound was just loud enough (just) Singers weren't mixed the greatest on Friday as it was hard to hear anyone other than the lead, and her only when the band was quite. The band was interesting on Friday, it was only keys, bass and drums, but the mix of hese was great. Audio was provide by cpc audio
They had placed 3 small Meyer line array speakers along the step of the stage for front fill, and the one on our side was sending sound up along the wall, and was reflecting out from the pier next to me, and right into my ear, about 1/2 a second behind the main front of house.
Lighting was by a LSC maxim 48/96 desk
Sound was on an Allen and Heath GL4000 (I've used one of these)
Vision was distributed by Edirol V - 440 HD video mixer (I've used one of these, there awesome)

All in all tech was good, with only some slight problems, with slides and cues for mics being missed regularly.

It's always good to go to other places and see tech there and how they do things.

Media team

Been toying with the idea of establishing a media team at my church. Here's the start of my idea document/report.

"As our church moves forward and reaches many new people in Dapto and surrounding areas, we will increasingly rely on different forms of media in all areas of our operation, from services, to outreach to day to day running of the church. As such, and to remove strain from team members I feel it is necessary to establish a team who's specific job is to handle our media, be it videos, website or even our bulletin design."

Let me know what you think. Its an interesting idea I've been working on for a couple of weeks.

 

ja

Testing out Office2007 functions

Just reading Josh's blog, and was reading that he tried out this feature of Word 2007 to post straight to the net from here. Interesting. I'll see what it's like.

 

ja

new mall

they opened the new mall across the road from church, been trying out the different food shops, to see which ones will receive my business in th future. The kebab shop was black listed, the sandwich shop thing gets a thumbs up, and guests is guests. Tried one of th coffee shops the other day, and was let down. Gloria jeans was good today. so its alright. i guess. there's some other shops that are also good.
so heres to the new mall.

ja