This baysidePRODUCTIONS design was for our Summer 09 Small Group Rally Weekend. Garrett Walker, Courtney Gill and I spent an hour one Saturday morning making this thing happen.

Basically we were confined to a 3'X 2' flat space. The powers above never made any height restrictions, SO we went VERTICAL! We suspended a 10 foot truss from the rafters and attached 8 Chauvet color-rain 64's and 2 Studio Spot 250's. then we used road cases for a table and used a iMac with PhotoBooth (mirror) (thanks to Joe L)and studio moniters for some jams to attract future baysidePRODUCTION people. It was a total success and totally blew the minds of people walking by. Don't give baysidePRODUCTIONS any restrictions!

For Epic Bayside's High School Ministry Charles had TOMS Shoes visit to help support Epic missions.

What is TOMS?
Founded on a simple premise: For every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One. Using the purchasing power of individuals to benefit the greater good is what we're all about.

When TOMS came to visit Bayside I wanted to create an environment that would set a mood for the youth on how important missions are to Bayside. The design is a hanging bamboo structure that has four anchor points and is assembled with zip ties my favorite. I wanted to wrap the zip tie connection points with hemp rope to make the appearance that the structure was held together that way, but due to setting up in a school I was unable to go that far into detail. I also used eight Chauvet color rain LED light fixtures that I suspended from one side of the bamboo. To the left in the last picture you can see a little bit of the muslin curtain that I tied to a 30' truss that was flown with a 50% fullness. The curtain helped give the organic feel and set a background for the merch table. It also cover this hug mural the school has painted on the wall "Go Freedom Elementary!"

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One of my favorite creative medias is to use a white board. I'm a huge HOUSE fan and love the fact that I use a white board like him. I have been using one for longer than the show, so im not a freak. But I carry a 2'x 4' white board around the office to all my meetings. Just felt I should share this with you guys.

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Tribute To Heath Sammons from Colt Sammons on Vimeo.

Every year the Bayside staff holds a Christmas volunteer party and the creative department try's to always go above and beyond with making the volunteers(vol) fell much appreciated and loved. In November a group of creative staff went around for about 3 weeks gathering face shoots of all of our awesome volunteers, it was a little awkward taking pictures of random vol and not being able to tell them what it was for, however most cooperated. We also encouraged the vol to be very expressive and hi·lar·i·ous. After we collected all the pictures I turned them into B/W using the best mass picture program ever; Google's Picasa 3.
Paper Wall Tips:
1) Picasa 3 mac, When/if you convert the images to B/O you will more than likely need to adjust the contrast ans brightness (I'm feeling Lucky), test the prints.
2) Use card stock, it will cut your time more than half.
3) layout two horizontal rows FACE DOWN/ RIGHT SIDE UP and apply packing tape.
4) Lots and Lots of packing Tape (clear)


Full stage shoot



Close up


Pastor Randy and Amy Bezet



Balloon Drop

Sarcastically I say yeah for Balloon drops. OK PEOPLE, these things are HARD and very time consuming.
I went online and found a balloon drop kit for about 40 dollars and also purchased three different colors for an additional hundred. I don't remember how many, but it was a lot of balloons. With a consistent group of three people 1) using an air compressor and two tying the balloons it took about 5 hours to fill the drop 5/8 full. So I recommend that you have a very large team to pull of your/my next B-drop. and for a 30sec awe. NO, haha

notes to look out for:
1) Make sure the venue you are using does not have a laser fire alarm system. experience:-(
2) Have more than 2 air compressors
3) research and try to find an alternative to tying balloons (be special and save a finger or two)
4)have a Genie life, two is always better
5)beware these drops are narrow and long! great for a hallway
6)zip tie the string at the ends while you hang the system, it not you will have a premature dropness
good luck.

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Location: Bradenton,Fl. Bradenton Municipal Auditorium

Sorry everyone for the lack of pictures, I am bad at documenting my stuff.

The Backdrop is a one of a kind Bubble wrap curtain hand crafted by the Bayside Set Crew. Bubble wrap site free shipping! good thing to, it would be crazy to pay shipping on something you would ship later yourself. We used about 10 rolls

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