but now that a few weeks have past, i would like to jot down my first ever Hillsong Conference experience, mainly from a TV crew perspective! (not saying that the JESUS fire has died down. but cus the conference was so amazing in so many ways!)
before conference even started, we had 2 weeks of conference intensives. i spent most of these 2 weeks doing 3 things:
1) rostering ppl for and running Chapel TV, playing a role in preparing the student body for conference (as well as Heart for the House week)
2) helping out at Wildlife TV, preparing the youth for Jam2011!
3) helping out with a video shoot for the Conference closer (which was not played at the Sydney one due to running out of time, but apparently will be at the London one)
the day before conference was mainly rehearsals. i was pretty much down at the SEC doing whatever was needed (iHeart stand decor set up, cam4 tracking/assist, runner/messenger for TV crew, etc). if i wasn't doing that, i had the freedom of wandering around backstage, taking pictures, exploring, or just sitting in and watching rehearsals. all that and enjoying chinese food in Chinatown =P oh and starbucks too. ahaha
now that conference TUESDAY had finally arrived, i spent most of day 1 helping bump-in for Jam @ Luna Park! not much to bump in TV wise, so we helped the rest of the volunteers blow up and tie 8,000 balloons by hand, for Day 1's tribal wars. -_- the kids were to pop the balloons to try and find like 3 objects in them, outta 8k. that was pretty much all we did...
at night, went back to the SEC, helped out nadya/isabel with food runs. not to mention i was a lil starstruck when i walked past Chris Quilala and Kim Walker from Jesus Culture, JD, BCH, JTH, RM, DZ... omg! haha it took my brain a while to register who they were! usually i hold it together pretty well cus its just one or two big names. but when you get so many one after another right away... i couldn't believe it! haha my legs carried me, and just kept walking. don't stop. i took it all in afterwards. only to help make a food run to FoH, only to bump into none other than JG! they were everywhere! lol
oh and how awesome was this opener?!?!?!
WEDNESDAY of conference, finally day1 of JAM! arrived at SEC early, spent 1.5hrs waiting for the Jam volunteers bus so i sat in the 2nd row, watching morning rehearsals. and it was none other than DZ, Sidney Mohede, RM... amazing! haha
at Jam, i just did CCU. just a lot of following to do during the message as the stage wasn't evenly lit. so i had to remember which were the dark/hot spots and manually adjust it.
back to the SEC at night, did the same thing. helped out izzy/nadya w/ food run, think i also did some water bottles delivery to the camera ops. hiking up so many steps to Cam8 was def NOT fun -_- once was enough. glad i wasn't a cam8 op. haha
THURSDAY day 3 of conf, day 2 of Jam! we had a later call time, just chilled in the back dock area in the SEC, and then made our way over to luna park! they (producers/director) decided to switch up the crew positions a lil, so i was switched to GFX! spent most of the day either doing GFX or helping out patrick with "designing" the pres slides for tribal war point tallies. we had a slight bit too much fun playing with fonts, sizes, and msft clip art! lol! also helped out a lil w/ comp problems, sending ppt thru the system. good thing i still remember my PC knowledge!
back to the SEC, did cam4 assist for Revelation. then after the usual food run, i stopped by starbs, grabbed a drink for myself and my fieldwork specialist, and headed to the DHCC to check it out and deliver the drink! i stood at the very back, wanting to listen to John Maxwell speak, and caught an asian guy filming the entire thing. but i was told to just leave it.... so i decided to video him, filming everything. bahaha... GG flashing red light on a DSLR!
FRIDAY! final day of conference already. aww... kicked off the day with starbucks! and headed to JAM! once again, the positions changed time. this time, found out i will be doing Cam2, aka main cam! sweeeeeet! honestly... I haven't done main cam yet here at hillsong. but i always thought about it... if i managed to follow a softball and/or a softball player running, how hard can it be following a speaker? haha the only added difficulty was instead of using a handy cam on autofocus, i had to manually control it. but since the speakers didn't do anything crazy (i.e. jump off the stage), it wasn't too hard. fun times!
near the end of Jam, i got a txt saying i will be rostered for REVELATION! whoooooo! then i found out i was doing CCU. -_- ah well. at least i can say i did CCU for Hillsong Conference in the SEC! haha...
then i did some more food runs, and generally just chilled backstage... until the medley! nadya, izzy, and myself snooped around like mice, until we found ourselves some pretty good standing view of the stage. we were actually hoping to watch the closer video.. but since that never happened... ah well. we enjoyed the medley! at least i did =P oh man... it was a trip down memory lane!!! lets see if i can recap it.. (hopefully in order... no promises)
Everyday / One Way / My Redeemer Lives / This Is How We Overcome / All Things Are Possible / Hear Our Praises / I Give You My Heart / Jesus, Lover of my Soul / The Stand / Potter's Hand / Worthy is the Lamb / Shout to the Lord / From the Inside Out / Mighty to Save
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