January 13, 2006

Want your name in a films credits?

Well, a few months back a friend and I had the idea to make a film about the ministry. More specifically, the Do's and Dont's of the ministry. Currently, the working title is The Unofficial Kingdom Ministry Training Video. We wanted to incorporate all areas of the ministry in, namely door-to-door, return visits, Bible studies, telephone witnessing, letter writing, informal, and street work including business territories. We wanted to make the don't part of the video to be slightly humorous. Ok, maybe more than slightly. But we wanted to keep it respectful by balancing it with the Do's of the ministry. So there will be humor, but only in the parts of what not to do in the ministry. Get it? We wouldn't want to offend anyone.

So, we got that far. Then we moved and the idea got lost in a notebook of potential film ideas, collected dust, was consumed by evil dust bunnies, and the remains were dusted into the trash can. Ok, I exaggerated a little. Anyways, we kind of forgot about it. Then finally it came back to my mind and lately I have mentioned it to a few and have gotten a bunch of good ideas for Dont's. Really, the only ideas needed for the film are Dont's, because Do's are easy to formulate from the Dont's. So what is holding me back from beginning to write the script? I need more ideas to begin. And the fact that my movie camera is broken might possibly be a setback.

So any ideas would be appreciated for this project. The Dont's can be however strange as you'd like (e.g. don't place a magazine into a dead mans shirt pocket assuming he's sleeping and just walk off), because we will then show the Do part after. Leave as many ideas as you'd like. Thanks for your help!

5 comments:

Jenny said...

Good idea!

abz said...

thatz a brilliant idea. we did that once...in fl actually...cept we went WAY over the top, it was fun at the time tho. hmmm don'tz...therez so many well herez one, avoid cellie telliez at the door.

Alice Springs said...

YEA we did a mini version of what your thinking of. It was reallly funny. We had like Nina being new in the truth and she was basiclaly crazy and yelling at the householder to take the track or else She'll die in hades. I'm sure yours will be a ton better.

Daniel Greene said...

Sounds like us. Years ago before we began going into the ministry we did little skits where we'd knock on the door and one of us would act out some weird householder character. I think we had a crazy, punk, freak kid with spiked hair, a crazy lady with a fake cigarette and beer bottle, and an army guy. lol

Any further ideas are appreciated:

abz said...

haha yeah i was like a gang meber with a child and i threw my child at libby...who was tryin to preach to me and i dunno it was crazy fun!!