Well, it's been a while since I've updated here. And since that time, alot has gone on. We kicked off another year at Sparkroom with Season 2 of our variety show SparkTV. The show has a whole new lineup with two new anchors: Amy LaGrone and Hunter Walker. No segment was carried over from last year, except for our Report now called the Here and Now. In addition we have new segments like Sparklets, a collection of short, fun, and sometimes meaningless short videos; Narratives, a present-day spin on familiar Bible Stories; and a remake of a classic from Synergy News 09, A Word with Kenny, now re-dubbed - A Moment with Kenny. Check out our first full episode this Wednesday night.
The leadership of Sparkroom has seen some changes as well this year. David Walker, co-creater of Sparkroom, left to go to Tennessee for film school. Although he and his talents are surely missed, we are excited for him as he pursues his career. Joining me this year on the Executive Staff again is Charles Wells as well as two new former Sparkroom students: Caleb Rowe and Trey Wells.
Production started this past summer on Scubaman 3. We were hoping to get all the footage shot before David went off to school, but as usual, unforeseen scheduling conflicts occurred and we were not able to finish. But don't worry, we will finish Scubaman 3. Check out the teaser for it on our home page of the website: www.sparkroomproductions.com.
-Jeffrey
Executive Producer - Sparkroom Productions
Monday, October 4, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
DNow and SparkTV
January has flown by but that hasn't stopped us from releasing a few more videos. This past weekend we had our 25th annual Disciple Now. I had the privilege of it being my 14th straight DNow at FBC. I have been to every one since my 7th grade year and have seen God do some amazing things and I'm grateful to be apart of such a life-changing weekend. This was also our 4th year to have a Security video. This year, the Security team battles against another, more legit, Security team to see who can keep things under control. Check out the video at www.sparkroomproductions.com to see what happens.
Also, this week we released SparkTV Episode 4. The crew had some interesting things happen to them this episode, including a strange Lewis Conspiracy that has caused Andrew to disappear. Where do you think Andrew has gone? Did he teleport? Time Travel? Post your ideas here or on Facebook. Stay tuned for next months episode as we find out what happened to Andrew.
Jeffrey
Executive Producer - Sparkroom Productions
Also, this week we released SparkTV Episode 4. The crew had some interesting things happen to them this episode, including a strange Lewis Conspiracy that has caused Andrew to disappear. Where do you think Andrew has gone? Did he teleport? Time Travel? Post your ideas here or on Facebook. Stay tuned for next months episode as we find out what happened to Andrew.
Jeffrey
Executive Producer - Sparkroom Productions
Thursday, January 7, 2010
New Year....New Videos
The New Year is here...2010. Looking back at 2009, I have to say it was a pretty successful year for Sparkroom. Alot happened down in our basement room. To sum it up:
- Early January, we unveiled the newly renovated Spark Room which now includes a booth room for controlled sound recording, newly painted walls black to cover up the wild colors, new ceiling tiles, and painted concrete floor.
- A new set was built for the start of the new News show, Synergy News 2009. This was a great success.
- SparkTV created over the summer with the creation of a completely new, better designed and user friendly set.
- Additional equipment added to get better audio recordings to eliminate noise and increase clarity.
- Started our website, www.sparkroomproductions.com, to make it easier to post our videos and information.
- Had our first annual Sparkroom Retreat that challenged our students to make a Disciple Now promotional video that was completely planned and filmed by the students.
- Filmed our first music video under the label of SparkRecords.
These are just some of the major accomplishments we had in 2009. Alot of little things have also occurred. But it's now 2010 and we are sure that it will be just as successful if not more! Some things we are hoping to accomplish this year:
- Continuing SparkTV through May, due to its extreme success. We will continue to do SparkTV in the fall, but due to students graduating, we will have to drop and create new segments. This is sad and exciting at the same time....sad cause we hate to lose students, but also exciting to see what new things we can accomplish.
- Film, produce, and show the long overdue Scubaman 3 this summer.
- Complete some finishing touches in the Spark Room from last years renovation, including solutions for storage for equipment, props, and costumes.
- Have a summer Sparkroom Retreat to give the students another opportunity to create student-led and produced films.
- Train willing students how to edit and produce videos.
In other news, I am constantly working on our website trying to upload new videos...well not new, but new to the site. I did a quick count the other night and we have almost 5o videos uploaded and thats not all that we have produced over the last 3 years. This is just awesome! To think we have produced over 50 videos is way more than we ever thought we would accomplish. This is only due to the time and dedication of both the students and us the leaders. We are looking forward to what new videos we can upload this year.
One of the things we want to do is to implement more interaction with the students through our videos and the website. What can we do to do that? Post your ideas here on this blog and give us some ideas. Also, tell us what you think about the website.
Signing off...
Jeffrey
- Early January, we unveiled the newly renovated Spark Room which now includes a booth room for controlled sound recording, newly painted walls black to cover up the wild colors, new ceiling tiles, and painted concrete floor.
- A new set was built for the start of the new News show, Synergy News 2009. This was a great success.
- SparkTV created over the summer with the creation of a completely new, better designed and user friendly set.
- Additional equipment added to get better audio recordings to eliminate noise and increase clarity.
- Started our website, www.sparkroomproductions.com, to make it easier to post our videos and information.
- Had our first annual Sparkroom Retreat that challenged our students to make a Disciple Now promotional video that was completely planned and filmed by the students.
- Filmed our first music video under the label of SparkRecords.
These are just some of the major accomplishments we had in 2009. Alot of little things have also occurred. But it's now 2010 and we are sure that it will be just as successful if not more! Some things we are hoping to accomplish this year:
- Continuing SparkTV through May, due to its extreme success. We will continue to do SparkTV in the fall, but due to students graduating, we will have to drop and create new segments. This is sad and exciting at the same time....sad cause we hate to lose students, but also exciting to see what new things we can accomplish.
- Film, produce, and show the long overdue Scubaman 3 this summer.
- Complete some finishing touches in the Spark Room from last years renovation, including solutions for storage for equipment, props, and costumes.
- Have a summer Sparkroom Retreat to give the students another opportunity to create student-led and produced films.
- Train willing students how to edit and produce videos.
In other news, I am constantly working on our website trying to upload new videos...well not new, but new to the site. I did a quick count the other night and we have almost 5o videos uploaded and thats not all that we have produced over the last 3 years. This is just awesome! To think we have produced over 50 videos is way more than we ever thought we would accomplish. This is only due to the time and dedication of both the students and us the leaders. We are looking forward to what new videos we can upload this year.
One of the things we want to do is to implement more interaction with the students through our videos and the website. What can we do to do that? Post your ideas here on this blog and give us some ideas. Also, tell us what you think about the website.
Signing off...
Jeffrey
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Update
Well things have been rockin and rolling in Sparkroom. We successfully filmed and aired our first full episode of SparkTV which showed last Wednesday night at youth worship. From the reaction of the audience...it was a hit. This coming Sunday we air our special edition of SparkTV for our Sunday morning worship service. This Sunday is Youth Sunday, in which our students are given the opportunity to serve in different capacities including taking up the offering, directing traffic, greeting, and so on. Sparkroom was given the opportunity to show a video to highlight SparkTV and the youth group as a whole. This episode will be shorter version of our regular episode, consisting only of Up to Date and Face the Facts. And of course, our anchors.
The website has been a great tool and we've gotten alot of great comments on it. We keeping thinking about ways to improve and use our site to help with communication among our spark group and, of course, the means of showing our videos. We recently reworked our Contact page to include contacts and a calendar. We renamed the link Info. We have also redesigned our About Us page that will consist of our profiles. We have not uploaded the changes to the About Us page as we are not quite done with all the profiles. We hope to have this up by this weekend.
Some have asked about previous videos that are not yet uploaded like Coffee House Chats. I'm working on these and will be uploading them in the near future. I have had to put alot of my time in getting our first full episode of SparkTV done, but now that that is out of the way, I should be able to have more time to work on these videos. So keep coming back and check for updates.
Jeffrey
The website has been a great tool and we've gotten alot of great comments on it. We keeping thinking about ways to improve and use our site to help with communication among our spark group and, of course, the means of showing our videos. We recently reworked our Contact page to include contacts and a calendar. We renamed the link Info. We have also redesigned our About Us page that will consist of our profiles. We have not uploaded the changes to the About Us page as we are not quite done with all the profiles. We hope to have this up by this weekend.
Some have asked about previous videos that are not yet uploaded like Coffee House Chats. I'm working on these and will be uploading them in the near future. I have had to put alot of my time in getting our first full episode of SparkTV done, but now that that is out of the way, I should be able to have more time to work on these videos. So keep coming back and check for updates.
Jeffrey
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Website Up and Running
Well the website is basically up and running. You can view our most current videos on the home page by clicking the links in the small tv monitors off to the side of the main tv monitor. To view more videos, click on the media page and a similar set up is there. A drop down menu at the top gives you the ability to pick from a huge list of past videos. I am constantly sifting through my computer pulling up old videos and uploading them so continue to check back to find your favorite video we have done over the past 3 years.
The website is still under construction so bear with us as we continue to work on it. The About Us page will consist of profiles of all our team members. We constantly are adding new members so we hope to have those up here soon.
Sparkroom helped kick off the new school year last Wednesday night with a Sneak Peak of our new variety show - SparkTV. You can view that video right on the home page. We have carried over alot from Synergy News, but have changed the look and feel of our set and the segments. We hope to have a monthly edition of SparkTV.
Please share this website with your friends and family. Alot of work went into the graphics by David Walker and I had to basically teach myself website making to pull this off. But we are quite pleased so far. We hope this will give more people an opportunity to see what our kids have accomplished over the years.
Jeffrey
The website is still under construction so bear with us as we continue to work on it. The About Us page will consist of profiles of all our team members. We constantly are adding new members so we hope to have those up here soon.
Sparkroom helped kick off the new school year last Wednesday night with a Sneak Peak of our new variety show - SparkTV. You can view that video right on the home page. We have carried over alot from Synergy News, but have changed the look and feel of our set and the segments. We hope to have a monthly edition of SparkTV.
Please share this website with your friends and family. Alot of work went into the graphics by David Walker and I had to basically teach myself website making to pull this off. But we are quite pleased so far. We hope this will give more people an opportunity to see what our kids have accomplished over the years.
Jeffrey
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Sparkroom 2009-2010
Well things are starting to pick up some steam in the sparkroom. There's saw dust flying and drills drilling as we prepare our new set for SparkTV. In just a couple weeks we will enter the routine of filming our youth variety show that will air once a month at Wednesday night worship. Stay tuned for more!
Now you probably came here via our new website: www.sparkroomproductions.com. And you probably noticed that it was pretty lame at the moment and had a link pointing you here. Well, that's because, in addition to construction on the set, we are working hard to provide you a direct way to view our past videos and a way to interact more with SparkTV. Here in a week or so, we will officially launch www.sparkroomproductions.com and hope you will share with others how God is using a unique ministry to touch the lives of others.
Jeffrey, David, and JJ
Now you probably came here via our new website: www.sparkroomproductions.com. And you probably noticed that it was pretty lame at the moment and had a link pointing you here. Well, that's because, in addition to construction on the set, we are working hard to provide you a direct way to view our past videos and a way to interact more with SparkTV. Here in a week or so, we will officially launch www.sparkroomproductions.com and hope you will share with others how God is using a unique ministry to touch the lives of others.
Jeffrey, David, and JJ
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