Tools and Talent
3 Comments Published by Camron Ware - Visual Worshiper August 13th, 2008 in Visual WorshipI could not agree more with this. Especially in regards to what I do, and how I do it. I see people all the time with amazing lighting and projection rigs, but don’t communicate anything with it.
I’ve grown up in the production world with anything but the latest and greatest tools. But, it has taught me how to be resourceful, creative, and innovative. First comes the talent God has given you, then the tools. The tools might help uncover the talent, but the truth is the talent was already there.
We’ve been able to do some pretty cool things with PAR 64’s and a few ellipses . . . but real question is did we get the point across ?
If you have the best and greatest and most expensive stuff, and don’t use it correctly, you just end up being a distraction.
Learning to use what we had was the biggest lesson that I learned in the past 10 years at the church. The church has (almost) always invested in quality stuff, not the best and biggest, but quality USEFULL stuff. That was their part.
Learning to use it to its full potential and use it to pull focus toward what was going on in service (rather then distract from service) is my part to do.
Right on Ian. Don’t do something just to do it, but use the tools to create focus. We are all telling the same
story, and will have different tools to tell it with, but remember to keep the main the the main thing.
I loved what Mark Batterson said at Echo…that you can “learn the how and forget the why.” Maybe that also translates to gear. You can have amazing tools and forget why you have them.