A Letter to a Friend

I went out on a photo shoot with Denny Trimmer (from Solid Rock Photography) yesterday morning. We are shooting three different subjects to use in a creative piece that we will be presenting at NewPointe in a couple of weeks.

Denny shooting Sherry in her kitchen
Here is the concept: In our Design Team Meeting last week... we were given the assignment of writing a letter to the person (or persons) most instrumental in redirecting our spiritual journey. In other words... the person who invested in us to help us get to where we are today (spiritually). It was pretty powerful to listen to each story as we went around the table. It was actually a very emotional experience for everyone who shared.

Well... we decided to use a similar experience in a creative piece for the message series that we were working on. Now... most of the time at NewPointe... we either tell stories LIVE or with video. So we thought that we might try something a little different this time. The idea is to create that old "stacked carousel projector" effect that you used to see all the time for office presentations (before PowerPoint came on the scene). So we are going to create that effect with a series of photographs (shot at about 4 frames a second) and add a dissolve effect to it.

In this photo... we were shooting Sherry as she was driving along beside us.
That was pretty tricky. As I was driving... I had to hang my camera out of my driver side window
to get a shot of Denny... shooting Sherry.
(while watching for oncoming cars in the opposite lane) Too much fun!
It should be interesting. I have the concept and a story board down for this thing... but I've never done anything like it before... so if you have any ideas... please let me know. It will be a cool and different way of sharing some powerful stories... which is something that we value at NewPointe.





You can have great programs, messages, music and media... but a good life change story will beat out all of that stuff (hands down) every time.

What's your story?