Story Board (The ROCK Project)*

Story Board (The ROCK project) 25^th of May 2011

Background

A ‘successful’ young women goes through life, completing the motions like a robot without fully understanding the significance of life. She fails to realize the church’s important role in nurturing and developing her spiritual life. Until one day when a life changing conversion experience occurs.

Structure of the story

This story is divided into 3 distinct parts:

Part 1: The typical Monday to Sunday life. It begins from the standard activity of going to church on Sunday.

Part 2: The activities of the ministries of the church in full form. Full of life and excitement by the active participants of the church members.

Part 3: Achieves enlightenment and the life begins hence fourth.

Part 1 (Forms 70% of the story)

Scene 1- It starts on a Sunday in church. She passes through church service (Holy Mass) as a chore without much significance in her life. She ends her obligation by the signing of the cross. And subsequently leaves the church in a ‘hurry’. As she was leaving there were some youth distributing a questionnaire form. She takes it hesitantly with an intention of not hurting the young boys. She then places the form into the bible, as a natural act of discarding it.

Scene 2- Her working week begins. Monday 6:00 AM, is the date and time she wakes up to. This information is indicated on a digital clock with a piercing buzzer. She puts the buzzer on snooze in hope of silencing it. She gets up and heads straight to the bathroom. After taking her bath, she goes to the dressing table and puts on her make up. This is a representation of her putting up a mask to begin her day. She puts on a fake smile with the reflection seen on the mirror, before leaving for work. She shuts the door with a ‘thud’ and leaves for work.

Scene 3- At work, she engages in a successful presentation in front of her colleagues. She is good at her job and has full ownership over it. Her team mates applauses in credit and appreciation for her. Her day ends, when she returns home and goes to bed.

Scene 4- Tuesday begins at 6:00AM. Standard buzzing of the alarm continues. Gets up hesitantly and prepares for work. Work in the office is a disaster because she goes through a frustrating ordeal in a team review. She throws the documents as a sign of dissatisfaction of the work of her colleagues. (The documents are thrown unto the camera)

Scene 5- A flash from Wednesday to Friday on the time and day of the alarm clock. This flash represents that her life is only but passing events with no specific significance. The following are the regular activities done on the specific days:

Wednesday: Goes out for dinner with a group of close friends. They share great laughs and stories together over dinner. But she is still not happy, because companionship is not what she is looking for.

Thursday: Goes out shopping alone. She tries on sunglasses and shoes, in hope of finding a ‘fit’ to her need. She carries many shopping bags as a sign of unnecessary baggage in her life.

Friday: (Important scene) She gets a massive shelling from her superior over a lack of commitment to her job. As a result she expressed her frustration to her superior. This resulted in great hurt and pain in her. (video zeros into her back)

Scene 6: (from previos scene, it zeros back out) She is in the club and having a ‘good time’ with club scenes reflected all around her. After an ‘amazing’ night she heads home alone and sad. She enters a dark room with a spotlight lamp filling the sad ambience. She breaks down and starts to cry. She is depressed of the empty life she is living. She walks to her desk in search of the answer. She saw the bible, and opens up to the part where the questionnaire was kept. She then, takes the time to fill the form.

o Do you have a good job (check)

o Do you have a good car (check)

o Do you have a good house (check)

o Do you have good friends around you (check)

o Do you have a good family (check)

o Do you have good health (check)

o Do you have Jesus in your life – PAUSES and left it (uncheck)

Scene 7: It is on a Sunday. She goes to church as her normal routine, but now with an open heart to the invitation of the church. As soon as the service ends, she does the sign of the cross. This time she takes time to look at the cross. Jesus dying on the cross now means a lot to her. As she walks out, engaged in deep thought, she suddenly realize a change in her. She pauses and turns right, attracted to the singing of the choir.

Part 2

Scene 8: Conversion story. It begins with the capture of the Priest lifting up the Eucharist at consecration followed by receiving Holy Communion. From there grace is received and this permeates life into the ministry. Video captures of life in people participating in activities of the:

a) Youth

b) IHD

c) Senior Citizen

d) Choir

e) Sunday school etc

Here the ministries’ are seen as full of life, real bond among members, laughters, reaching out, smiles, real satisfaction from giving of oneself to the community.

Scene 9: As soon as the flashes of the various ministries in full action are complete, she finds achieves full satisfaction and life. She immediately whips out the form, and with the use of a big marker pen she ticks of the last item:

o Do you have Jesus in your life (check)

The story ends in scene 9. It will follow with flashes of conscious prompting statements today like:

1) Have you found Jesus in your life today?

2) Are you the Eucharist in the world today?

3) Are you participating actively in the ministries of the church?

Principles of the video

1) The life changing experience of receiving Jesus in your life freely and realizing this leads you to active participation of life. Not living a life like a ROBOT but a free HUMAN BEING.

2) The courage of a human spirit in search for enlightenment