Newday CREATIVE Team – roll the credits!

Last week I served at Newday youth festival and joined the ND Creative team for the first time. My role was studio manager, management support and to generally look after the team's needs. What an amazing experience and a privilege to work with such talent!

The Atrium - Newday Creative Studio. Norfolk Showground

Writers, cinematographers, producers, film directors, editors, sound technicians, photographers, creative directors, graphic designers - I had NO idea how much work, skill and long hours went into this side of the Newday event.

Blogs, social media, magazine articles, audio files, live footage, countless photography stills, interviews, short films packed with truth, helping us celebrate, making us dance, making us think, making us laugh, making us cry, ...and I'm sure I haven't mentioned it all!

It took me a while to get up to speed, I now know what treatments and rushes are, and what producers, cinematographers and editors actually do!

There were 4 teams within the ND Creative team: film, sound, photography and writers.

A typical day would start at 8am with the team management meeting followed by the production meeting at 9. Writers, sound technicians and photographers then had morning deadlines. The film team would give me a props list, various logistics, venues and people to secure for the days multiple afternoon shoots. It was often like being on an episode of The Apprentice for instance sourcing a chefs hat, teapots, posh crockery and high tea provisions for 26 (a thank you film for those serving on the catering team), or 9 rolls of gaffa tape, 68 bottles of paint and a cherry picker (a paint fight filmed from above).
As well as that day's shoots, the film team would also be making final edits (following feedback in the morning production meeting) on the shoots from the previous day, ready for the big top evening meeting at 7pm where their work would be viewed by 7000 people. Sound and film teams would then work through that meeting recording live footage, followed by an evening of uploading audio files and editing the day's film, often late into the night.

On location for 'JOY has a name' shoot (the paint fight filmed from all angles) - click image for link to film

Meals got missed, sleep was limited and time off didn't happen much. It was a place for professionalism, constructive criticism, collaboration, support, empowering, apprenticeship, mutual respect and appreciation, and a reaching together for excellence (within our limited time restraints).

The 'GLOW' shoot with drummer Jesse Balfour, highlighter pens & UV lights (click image for link to film)

Newday Creative devoted themselves to this exciting, rewarding, vulnerable, exhausting, skilful, passionate endeavour of communicating truth, of engaging, challenging and entertaining people through their creativity. Bringing flavour, colour, fresh dimensions and depth to Newday, a voice that echoed first across the big top and now ripples out through social media to those who weren't even there.

These guys are passionate about what they do, passionate about Jesus and communicating His truth, and are really pretty awesome AND now I can call them my friends!
It's a week I'll never forget and although I'm rather tired, I'm already looking forward to #nd17!!

Click here for link to HOPE HAS A NAME film
Click here for link to LOVE HAS A NAME film
Click here for link to MR BEATBOX film (the only one I'm actually in!)
Click here for link to END OF WEEK REVIEW film‪
   
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