¹⁰ When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. ¹¹ Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. ¹² Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, ¹³ and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

¹⁷ You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” ¹⁸ But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

-Deuteronomy 8

When is the last time we stopped to give a deep heartfelt thanks to God for…

• A moment of creativity
• That idea we had regarding so and so that ended up helping people move closer to God. What about the idea we never had?
• That special skill we have. Ears to mix sound. Eyes to see color. The senses we’ve been given, the skills we lack.
• Knowledge to know what “that knob does.”
• The time we are given, the time we weren’t given
• The money we earn, or didn’t earn.
• Authentic Mexican food in the unlikeliest of places

“And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

-Ephesians 5:20

Lets check our hearts. Lest we wake up one day and find that we’ve gradually moved to a place where we say, with Gollum-esque voice, “It’s mine, my own…my precious ____” skill/knowledge/idea/talent/money/ability/you fill in the blank.

I’m thankful for the Echo Conference. I pray it’s going to be a place for God to breathe into Colin, Tim, Chad and me. Breathe life, creativity, skill, aptitude, attitude, reality, humility and for all of these things may we be thankful and full of gratitude.

And another kinetic type video created by Colin Harman. We would use these to set up the talk with a preview of the Scripture being taught.

This is an animation / kinetic typography piece for Blue Ridge Community Church in Forest, Virginia. Narrated by Marilee Earle and created by Colin Harman.

Music: “Begin” by Jam Balls

A simple motion graphic for Blue Ridge Community Church during the “Leaving A Mark” series
Credits:
Original music by Judson Lee.
Voiceover by Todd Foster.
Sound Effects by Colin Harman.

High resolution space photos from NASA Hubble

This is a typographic animation that Colin Harman created in 2008. It is is referencing the text of Galatians 6 and was used a sermon intro bumper. We were looking for a creative way to ‘read’ the Scripture aloud prior to the teaching. It is narrated by Gary Rogers. If I recall, I used an EV RE20 mic for the audio capture. I’m a big fan of that mic for voiceovers.

I’m sure that today’s is one I haven’t previously posted.  This was a promo created by Tim Gosnell to setup a teaching on the topic. We all have insecurity about something.

Created by Tim Gosnell and Jeremy Wilkinson. Shot on Canon 7d, Sennheiser K6 series shotgun, Zoom H4N. Enjoy my cameo…but make no comments about the strength of my neck, head placementl, or any other attacks on my execution of such a delicate maneuver.

]]> http://productionmusings.com/2010/05/21/oldie-video-hiccups/feed/ 0 http://productionmusings.com/2010/04/23/response-stage-design-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://productionmusings.com/2010/04/23/response-stage-design-part-2/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:55:21 +0000 Andrew Hunt http://productionmusings.com/?p=611 This could be our most versatile stage design we’ve ever done. I was greatly satisfied at the number of looks we were able to achieve. Our friend Lester Hamrick loaned us 2 of his Elation Power Spot 250s for accents. Instead of talking, here are the photos:

To mimic the series graphic (see previous post)

We just began an 8 weeks series addressing what it means and does not mean to worship. “Our church culture often defines worship as a specific time during a Sunday morning service that consists of some praise choruses, or perhaps a specific music service that occurs during the week. Certainly, that is one way people connect with God. But, we may be limiting ourselves by missing some of the most valuable meanings of worship. It was never intended to be a simple activity that we perform but something much broader. In reality, it was not even supposed to originate with us.” – BR Teaching Team

Tim conceptualized this design to use offset 2′x4′ pieces of white coroplast. The idea was to use 16′ vertical 2x4s on 4′ centers. We would staple one end of the chloroplast to the stud and the other end would be offset approximately 8″ from the stud. I modified our original 3d models to illustrate the assembly in a way much better than I can describe:

Tim, Colin and Todd will attest to how difficult I can be to work with at times. I tend to over think and over analyze details of ideas or concepts and immediately move to “what are the potential problems with this idea?” or “can I immediately identify challenges we’ll need to consider ahead of time?” when brainstorming. Talk about a Debbie Downer for the creative process. In this case, I was worried about the 12″ spacers creating undesirable shadows when downlit and I was also worried that the spaces between the panels wouldn’t look right. For both cases, I was wrong. In hindsight, I think the shadows and spaces played to our advantage once we got color on it.

The entire structure is braced to the back wall and safetied. For sidelight we used the AC Lighting Color Splits (one per side), 5 High End Studio Beams above it, 6 ETC S4 Jr for band backlight and 5 S4 Jr Zooms for Vocal frontlight. Fresh pics to follow….

This was a transition element we used to bridge the last baptism of each service into Steve Fee’s song “Glory to God.”  Tim Gosnell conceptualized this element and shot the footage. I helped interview people and edited this project. Tim did the final color adjustments and tweaks. Judson Lee wrote the music used underneath. A large group of vocalists kicked off the chorus Glory to God a cappella as the music culminates at the end.