Production Musings

Us on a Wall in the Hall

// January 22nd, 2009 // Thoughts

Teams.  We all have them under the umbrella of “Technical Arts” or “Production Arts” or whatever we may call it in our local churches.  We have media teams, audio teams (and within that team we have a FOH team and a Monitor team), lighting teams, video teams, podcast teams, and stage teams among others.  As the team at large grows I find that it becomes increasingly difficult for all of us to know those we’re serving beside.  The media team, for example, just doesn’t interface very often with the monitor team…not to the fault of anyone but that it’s geographically very difficult.  They’re in two completely different worlds but yet all the teams are working together towards a common goal – to enable and support communication to large groups of people.

While there is no substitute for being connected with one another outside of Sunday mornings and rehearsals, I had an idea that I thought might be helpful as a first step in knowing one another…especially as the team grows!  About a week ago, with the gracious help of a very cute photojournalist who I happen to be dating, we decided to go oldschool and snap some Polaroids of everyone serving on the team for our main service.  Why Polaroids?  No reason other than they’re cool looking…and going out of production…and if you wait long enough anything will come back in style!  I hung some cheap Ikea hangers, connected those with picture wire and clipped each photo to the wire. The wire runs parallel with the handrail in the hall that leads up to tech offices and loft. Each volunteer signed their photo and wrote what area they served in. This little project ended up costing about $60 after the hangers, wire, and film. As the team grows so does the Polaroid wall!