March 13, 2007

David Bell
weekly report #7
03/13/07
Meeting with John and teck booth observation.

I have been reading all these blogs about the teck booth and I decided it was my tern to check it out myself. I was interesting and a lot of work for me because I do not know lot bout power point and sound boards. There were three guys besides me running the booth. One was on the camera, another on the soundboard, and the other on the computer controlling the slides. My main area was the PowerPoint I observed and listened to what I was being taught. There was a sweet new gadget they were showing me and with it you can pause the screens that are displayed to the congregation, and fix a glitch on the slides so the congregation can still read the screens. A lot goes on when working in the booth, and you really have to know what you are doing and focus on your specific job and be flexible.

Today we met Pastor John in his office, Stephen was there early and briefly told John what we are studying, because John likes to talk about what is going on is class. He started off showing us different albums and styles of music. He talked about different styles and explained worship styles can be the way you wear your neck tie. For example, a neck tie can be blue or red, it can be short or long, but whatever way you wear or tie your tie, it is still a tie. His point being that it doesn't matter how the style (way you tie the tie) as long as the structure (tie) is correct.

as a result to my practicum, I have now experienced for myself what it is like behind the sound booth. I am not sure that this would be my are a preference, but if I am needed there then I will do whatever it takes to get it done.