A window on my word - video

I have been working this week on building a video to show Sunday in church about our adoption.  It’s a big undertaking.  Just five minutes of music and photography could take me two weeks solid.  But I don't have two weeks.  There are so many details to creating something like this that it is pretty amazing.  I’ve been working on it solid most of the week.  Thursday evening hubby came in and flipped on the tv and I didn’t get much done after that.  I sent him to bed really early and stayed up till 2 am working on the video.  I was toasted the next morning when I tried to get out of bed, but in a small house, distractions like that can be really hard to get away from.  Yesterday I told him before he got home that I needed to be able to work on the video straight through the evening.  He was really good about it and went into the bedroom with the other laptop and M*A*S*H DVD’s turned down really low.  I was able to really get a lot done and I was really grateful that he was willing to do that. 

I have most of the photography and graphics done.  Tonight I’ll be working at putting the visual and audio elements together.  I’m really hoping and praying that I can make something that will communicate what needs to be communicated.  I have a friend who is the media person for a huge organization who has offered to view it and critique it so that I know that it communicates what I want it to.  That’s really important.  With something as personal as talking about our journey with infertility and our choice to adopt – it’s really important that it doesn’t come off whiney, or soaked in self pity while still showing the truth of these years.  There have been some dark seasons!  So I’m really hoping I can get it all pulled together and looking great for Sunday.  Yesterday I tested the first segment on the church projection computer and it is really wild to see something like that projected on a really huge screen.  I liked it.  I liked it very much!  And I’m pleased with how it is going so far.

I will have it done in time for Church on Sunday and then we can use it at fund raisers and other events along the way.  I think we will be really glad we have it.  Once it’s done. 

Yeah.  Once it is done.