REAL WORLD: CHURCH BASEMENT ROADSHOW STYLE

For the next four days we have a documentary filmmaker traveling in the RV with us recording our every movement and conversation (ala. Cinéma vérité technique). He joined us yesterday and has filmed us doing the show, loading up the trailer, talking with one another, getting lost trying to find an RV park, and lying in our underwear exhausted on our beds. He films us brushing our teeth, shaving, eating breakfast and walking down the street. He is also constantly asking us to explain what we are doing and what is happening in the moment. (with Cinéma vérité film-making there is no narration--so the subject must provide narration). It is a bit unsettling and at the same time invigorating having someone document your every movement--although it is far too easy to edit what we say or do. Because there is only one camera and four of us, the filmmaker tends to focus his lens on whoever is saying or doing the most interesting thing at the moment. So I sense that we are each putting some effort into being big personalities, saying funny things and making profound and pithy comments on every subject when asked. The camera makes us more conscious of ourselves--feeding into our natural tendencies to want to be noticed and heard. The film company hopes to pitch a documentary to HBO about Emerging Christianity and the changing role of faith in politics and society.