Are you watching? Are you listening?
So it has been a couple weeks since my last post. School is over, yet I am somehow managing to stay busier now than I was when there was homework in the mix. I suppose I have been pretty busy. OSM has finished out for the year. I leave for Florida on the 26th, so I have been working on tying up all my lose ends around Lafayette, getting my apartment all packed up, etc. In the past week I have been in Lafayette, Kokomo, Noblesville, Carmel, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne. Lots of driving and spending time with my girlfriend. I wouldn’t trade that time spent with her for anything.
BigStuf starts in 16 days. 16 DAYS. I have a lot of work to do before then. I have been hard at work these past couple of days finalizing my design for the credits at the end of the week highlight video. Here is a little glimpse of the direction I am going.
Quite a bit cleaner than what I did last year. It is also a much better planned layout, and easier to make quick changes to. No more hours and hours of rendering hoping that it doesnt fail, or that I forgot to change something. Less stress will be involved in that aspect, and less stress makes a happy Travis. The overall look that I have gone with is designed to mimic the branding that has been created for camp this year. I have been fortunate enough to get ahold of the camp book early, so I have been able to pick some design elements from it and implement them in my design. This helps me alot. It is my goal to create a package that looks and feels like camp. I have looked back at some of the videos from when I went to BigStuf as a camper, and there is no overall design. I remember camp from each year, and the videos dont contain any of the overall elements that were important at camp. I want to create a video that isn’t just a video for the campers to remember camp by, but a total experience that takes them back in time to live camp all over again. It is a tall order. I am up to the task, however. Nothing brings me more joy at camp than to watch the campers on morning five. Right before the campers leave to head back to their lives, the lights go down, the screens are turned on, the speakers are turned up to a level the makes every old person in the room curse at the guy in the sound booth underneath their breath (ok, maybe not that), we show them a video that has been in the works the entire time they are at camp. Capturing every moment of camp. The highs and the lows. I love observing them while they sit through the experience that I have created for them. This keeps me going during the long nights at camp.
BigStuf has played a big role in my life. I accepted Christ in the same room that I have had the priviledge of serving along the side of hundreds of other people to create the same experience that changed my life. The highlight videos that I have to remember those years by have become personal treasures. I just hope I can provide that same kind of memory nearly 20,000 middle and high schoolers that I will encounter in the next few months.
That is a pretty long post. Now you know what I have been doing. Just that. Be back later. Ill post again within the next few days. There is a monumentous occasion coming up very soon.
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