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