God's Deadlines

I have had such an extremely busy weekend. All week i have been involved in a production that had people lip-singing to the song "Shadowfeet" my job was to receive the footage shot by my co-worker and edit it into a short cut. However this short cut involved long render and export times and complicated shots, cuts, and edits. Timing was difficult to achieve between syncing the actors to the words. Also the Render time was killing me with having a 40 minute clip time lapsed into 30 seconds. Now all of this could have easily been done in a single day of working. But I learned of what i had to do Friday night, and i had a paintball event all day saturday which left me with Saturday Night to fully edit and export the film. After pulling an all nighter i finally finished and met my 7AM deadline. I finished the video at 6:30AM.

Paintball however rocked with having the entire team out there player all 9 active members!!!

New Stuff

For the past few weeks i have been settling myself into working at Living Waters as a Film Editor for there new Video Ministry. My responsibilities are to soft edit the footage of the services to add in sub-text of the scriptures, and manipulate the footage to make it look professional and clean. Also I am to prep and export the footage to get it ready for DVD and webcasting. But now i find myself doing more advanced projects. This week Chris and I are working on a video for the beginning of service on Sunday. Its a music video involving green screening - Were filming members of our church lip singing a song in front of a green screen. From there I plan on taking the footage and cutting it up so the people interchange while lip singing to a song. The green screen will be replaced with footage from the city thats out of focus - the overall look and feel of this video is going to be sweet. I'll see if i can post it when its complete.

Changing Things Up.

Life as i know if has completely flipped upside down. Usually i am open to change and take any obstacle i hit with a positive attitude and keep moving forward. I have been recently "let go" from America's Best Defense, and whether or not i was fired or laid off i have no idea - originally i was replaced, but there seems to be a new person being trained for the job position i was told wasn't open. I'd rather people be forward to me instead of trying to let me down nicely or act like i don't know what's going on. No disrespect because I love all of my former co-workers at ABD and i always will - and truthfully i don't know what's happening. All i know is i was not needed or wanted there and that means it was time for a change. Since the change i have been dedicating a lot of my time to Living Waters Church as a Film Editor, its not every day i get to do something i love and know that its changing lives and bringing people closer to God. I hope one day i can become paid for doing this - Film is definitely my future. In the mist of all the confusing stuff going on i do have some Victories! I am now a Licensed Driver, I have released a few videos for my paintball Team, and Megan is still and will always be as incredible as she was when i first met her over a month ago!

"When God leads you into darkness - he is testing your faith in him, Put your Trust in him and he will lead you back to the light."

I also have been doing some designing lately, check out these two designs for T-Shirts i came up with.
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Megannn

Church today was really good. I haven't heard Pastor Geyzer speak in a long time and i forgot how scary he can get! When he preaches he gets really emotional to the point of yelling and screaming! and being in the front row with a huge headache doesn't work to well but i fought through it! After church i had Megan over and we just chilleddd and watched TV Shows on my Mac, we watched Pushing Dasies (AKA fav show of all time) and she showed me some highlights of this show shes trying to show me lol weird showw!! She had dinner over and then left around 8:15ish I've seen her 4 days in a rowww its going to be tough going back to school and having to wait a whole week to see her again! I'm a mess i know ill deal :)

Smile for the Camera

I loved how today went! Work 8-11AM and then filming from 11AM-1PM which was decently fun seeming how i absolutely love film. We filmed a DVD for Martial Arts for Excellence just about the students and how to run a proper karate class - the filming with the 12 or so 6 year olds went remarkable well. After filming my grandparents showed up to hangout with me and since i had to make a trip up to one of our paintball sponsors they helped me out. I had to get 10 Cases of paint from our sponsor for next weekends Paintball Game saturday - Its going to be a blast! After that i headed over to Megan's Work at like 3PM and hung out there until they had to close, In fact i got a jump on editing the footage for the DVD. After 5PM we headed to her house and just relaxed the rest of the night watching House I love that show!

See, it was a good day!

Rough Ending, Good Day.

Woke up today at 7:00AM and snoozed until 8:00AM until i finally got motivated and got up and out of bed to get ready for work. Pulsone picked me up at like 8:30AM and my day started. Camp was fairly simple today we had a ton of kids but all they seemed to want to do was play video games which is fine by me - We had then doing brain teasers like "26 L in the A" and "3 B M (S H T R)" some were pretty challenging for the but most of them got them with little help. Once noon came around i headed home and was pretty board, Cameron came over and we set up the compound for the first time. Its pretty spacious I'm going to be excited to use it at events! and then i took a nap until 4:00PM. I had more work from 4-7PM and then i headed over Megan's house which was pretty awesome! although her dad was pretty upset with me because i was 10 minutes late leaving her house? I don't know, it just bothers me. Oh well!

Tomorrow is going to be a long day, Work 8-12, then going up to my sponsor to grab 11 cases of paint and then hanging out with Megan at night again hopefully... I really hope so!

Work and Fun

Todays work was actually pretty fun, We played some intense Duck Duck Goose, Capture the Flag, and of corse more and more Dodge Ball. Then i got to start Work part two, running the front counter, i really hope i don't get laid off. Any who i got out at 7, and then soon after i headed over to Megan's, i loveeeee spending time with her, we watched 300. What kind of girlfriend REQUESTS to make her boyfriend watch 300 psh perfection!