Series Promo

Here is a series promo that I put together in a few hours.

Video Switching Take 1

So like every thursday night we have our Arts practice to get ready for the upcomming weekend. I got a call before practice that our switcher would be unavailable due to working late, and was asked to fill in for the night. Which was a great gift, I love getting to switch whenever possible. Through this i’ve learned how much leadership is involved in calling shots.

Whoever is switching the camera shots (Technical Director) is also calling the shots ahead of time as well. And were practicing our opening worship and I’ve never actually directed a whole practice so this was loads of fun. The leadership things I noticed were as the switcher is you have to make sure your people on camera know which camera they are on. Example is last night one of our usual camera 3 (roving camera) operators was on camera 1 (camera on tripod), and occasionally he would forget that he is camera 1 because he’s use to being on camera 3 all the time. During a few instances he would forget when I would call camera 1 so then i would need to remember to call him by name so that it would register which camera he is operating. This was also an interesting challenge because one of our headsets was malfunctioning so our Video Director was fixing the headset and Camera 2 was unable to hear me call for shot adjustments. With this comes making sure to dispense grace and not talking down to the camera operator. If I talk to camera 1 in a negative town then this leaves room for the enemy to creep in and take away from the joy of getting to serve on camera, so making sure to love the camera operator is extremely important in helping the person remember which camera they are located on.

Also, last night we are in the middle of a set take down so the people on stage are not where they typically are and there was no back lighting on the talent so this added some complexity to the night. As i’m directing I’m also making sure to dual track and talk to Jesus to give me the right shots to make this look great because I want to serve with excellence. This is not perfection, we are prone to make mistakes, excellence is getting to do the best with can with the help of Jesus so that on Saturday and Sunday people are able to enter into the service and not be distracted by the IMAG but instead it adds to the service allowing the walls that people may have built around their heart come down. If someone is coming for the first time and they see great camera shots,lights,music,etc then it takes away from any criticism they be wanting to use to allow them to not hear the message Jesus has designed for them but instead allow them to enter in and receive what Jesus has for them that day, which is the most important thing. If Jesus were to say don’t do IMAG we would drop it in an instance to make sure people can get a clear picture of Jesus and respond to it. I don’t have a doubt that anyone I serve with or the people on staff at the church would have a different opinion. It’s a gift getting to do IMAG and so as the switcher I get to help people see things they may not see from their seat or may not notice that is happening during the service.

This is all for take one, I’ve already wrote a lot and my lunch break is almost over and will soon need to get back to work. Stick around for more things I’ve learned from switching in a later post.

Static Promo

Here is the promo that I made for our next series. This is the first of many more video things to come enjoy.

Initial Post

I am trying out my blog and the ease of use on a few different places to see where I want to make my home at. So stay tuned and i’ll let you know if i’m going to stick around or not.