Production Musings

Oldie Video – Hiccups

// May 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Video

How about a few entries about oldie video’s we’ve created in the past that I haven’t posted? With this one, we were aiming to humorously illustrate the topic of “advice.” Where do we look for it? What kind of advice is it? Do we believe it? Why? Why not?

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.

Response Stage Design Part 2

// April 23rd, 2010 // 13 Comments » // Stage Design

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)

Response Stage Design Part 1

// April 23rd, 2010 // 8 Comments » // Stage Design

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….

I’ve Been Marked

// April 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Video

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.