Production Musings

T3 Stage Design

// February 5th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Stage Design, Video

We just wrapped up our 2nd Series of the year. I suppose I must have gotten distracted along the way because I totally did not take any photos of it. I do, however, have a special documentation of the process thanks to Tim and Colin. They setup a Canon 7D and took photos every 30 seconds during work hours all the way up until Sunday morning into the 1st Service.

About the design:
- We wanted something warm
- We got the lanterns from The Paper Lantern Store (along w/ 15′ cables)
- Used 40 watt bulbs
- For power distribution, we found a great 12 outlet distro at Harbor Freight for $20. We replaced the ends from Edison to Stage Pin and it worked like a charm.

Between the 15′ extensions and the distros, we should have a really nice setup for future designs when we want to incorporate lots of dimmable incandescent fixtures.

Hiccups

// January 25th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Video

Tim Gosnell, our newest technical staff member, created this video short to illustrate various old wives’ tales regarding the best way to get rid of hiccups. As you read this, what things have you heard of doing to get rid of them? Various water drinking methods? Questionable body positions? Potentially dangerous amateur medical practices? These and other ideas were mentioned here but seriously, how do we really get rid of hiccups?

The creative team was looking for a fun way to setup the fact that when we’re faced with issues and challenges in life we need to use caution when seeking for truth, for answers. We need to be able to discern truth from opinion as we walk through life together. The truths that God has communicated to us through the Bible will be the guide.

Take a look: (it’s my first cameo! which one am i?)

Hiccups from Tim Gosnell on Vimeo.

Tech specs:
Audio captured via Sennheiser K6 shotgun direct into camera
Video captured w/ Canon 7D, handheld
Lens, Canon 24mm, 1.4 L

One of Those People

// October 14th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Video

At Blue Ridge, Celebrate Recovery meets on Sunday afternoons. The purpose of CR is to help people work towards recovery from various hurts, habits, and hang-ups that life may present.  There seemed to be a myth floating around @_theridge that CR is for “those people,” usually referring to a drug addict or alcoholic.  (You may have even had the stereotypical image pop into your head as you read that.)  While CR is certainly a helpful tool for the drug addict or alcoholic, it actually covers far more life issues.  When you’re co-dependant and enabling, when you can’t seem to get a grip on your anger, past relationship hurts, past mistakes you wish you could take back, the inability to control your thoughts, sex addiction, fear, when everyone else seems to be the problem and well, I could keep listing them off.  When they asked for a short video promo to debunk the myth of “those people” and encourage people to come to an Intro to Celebrate Recovery I felt strongly about the purpose and accepted the task.  Here were our goals going into it:

• Make it fun and light
• Make it short and simple
• Make it relatable and non-threatening
• Make people want to come check it out

Tim Gosnell and I worked on it together.  We left space at the end for a text bumper containing information about the Intro to CR event.  Both of us are complete amateurs when it comes to video…so please, share your critique as we always are striving to learn and improve with how we communicate!

Who Would You Choose?

// June 21st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Video

Here’s a little video a couple of us put together over the last few weeks. The message topic was “God picks the unlikely.”   We scheduled 10 kids to come answer a few questions for us about choosing the best person/thing for the job. Here’s what we came up with to set up the talk and the bonus question at the end wasn’t scripted: