Fine Arts Sectionals Recap

By the way, the tech side of fine arts for me, MY GRAPHIC DESIGN IS GOING TO DISTRICTS!! AND SO IS MY SERMON!!! Take a look!

BTW, Winter Retreat is this weekend in ERIE!!

Winter Retreat Lighting Ideas

Winter Retreat is Awesome!

But seriously, when I do lights for any APC Event, my goal is to make them look good and still make an atmosphere for worship and for people to connect with God. So I have had a couple of thoughts for how I can do this. This year we are planning to use all LED’s and some Intelligent  lights. So do you think we should still get par cans? Here are my thoughts for what we have.

1) Have four LED’s on two trusses and a few on the floor with Intelligent lights on top of the trusses.

2) All LED’s on the floor and intelligent lights in the ceiling.

What’s the best idea?

1st Post of 2011: Winter Retreat Countdown Video

APC March 7th with Winter Retreat Recap

What Happens at Upward Awards Night

Well honestly, I don't know what happens at Upward Awards Night. Except, well there's awards. I should get a better Idea of what happens. All I know of is that there's pics that are playing during pre-service, there's live cam involved, a guy by the name of Nel Creman will be there, and I am one of only 3 people who will be in the Tech booth. The two other people I will be working with are Andy Eble and Pastor Gregg Jacobs (I posted about him a couple of weeks ago.) Okay, off topic now, I thought I'd share last weeks APC Minute. It has some Winter Retreat testimonies. Check it out.

Worship Band for Winter Retreat

This Past weekend as well during the Winter Retreat, I got to hear and work with one of the best college worship teams I've ever worked with. (Okay the only one I've Worked with). That band is the Valley Forge Christian College Worship Team. They had such a positive attitude, great hearts for God, and made some awesome music. You can check out their Friday Night Fast set by Clicking HERE.

The New Experience of Working Winter Retreat

This past weekend, I got the chance to work with new people. A new band to start with. I got the chance to work with The Valley Forge Christian College Band (featuring Brendon Robinson From APC) and a bunch of other people from the college. The biggest Inspiration from that group that I got from that whole weekend was from the sound man Jason. Before the first service and before a little bit of the second service, but he was able to pull through and make it one of the best retreats ever. One other person I'd Like to thank for being there this weekend is Brian Russell. He was the person who ran the computer and did an outstanding job. The retreat this year was a big success. Plus also in the first night alone, 25 people gave their lives to Christ which I think is awesome!

Production for Winter Retreat

This weekend, I get to work one of my favorite 2Twenty productions.

That is Winter Retreat. This year I am incharge of working not 1, not 2, but 3 light boards. One of them is our normal 2Twenty Light Board (see all below) Also like I've put in previous post's, the DMX Operator 192 for Intelligent Lights. And Finally for a second set of Can lights is the Light Board known as the Stage Desk 16. The mentality I'm keeping this weekend is found in the Bible in Phillippians 4:13, "I can do All things through Christ who strengthens me." So....WISH ME LUCK!!

American DJ Forum...Great ways to get Tech Questions

This afternoon, since I've been off the past 5 days, I've decided to go "OCD" on learning how to program the DMX Operator 192 for the Winter Retreat which is Pictured. I thought That I would try submiting a question on "American DJ's Forum", which is a company that sells this board. I already got one reply from a guy named Chris who sounds like he know what's he doing. My question was do I need Scenes to record chases on the board. Check out what he said.

"Yes, you need to program scenes before you program chases.

Chases are dependent on scenes being created. You could make the chases without the scenes, but your chases are going to be really really BORING since there is nothing in the scenes.

The manual is excessively clear on this fact.

Since you do have the manual, this is some advise(besides reading it):
Sit down with the DMX Operator 192 with the manual open. Go over the scene programming stuff one step at a time with the manual, going over and over it until you feel comfortable with the whole programing thing. It's not confusing, but it takes extra practice. You might also want to download the manual and print out the pages that pertain to progamming to make those extra available. I say this because that is what I do with my DMX Operator(not 192). But I don't use my DMX Operator often these days since I'm using MyDMX as my controller.

Have fun and hope your retreat goes well. It sounds like you got a fun job!"

That is really going to help me as we Prepare for the Winter Retreat.

Programing Light Boards

This year for the Winter Retreat (which you can sign up by CLICKING HERE) I have been given the ultimate task. Programing the Intelligent Lights for service. The board is the "Elation Operator 192" (which is pictured below)











Looking at the manual, it's really easy, but I still got almost a full month to figure out how much more I can do with it. Wish me luck!!