Production Musings » Intro http://productionmusings.com Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Intro Videos http://productionmusings.com/2009/02/25/intro-videos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://productionmusings.com/2009/02/25/intro-videos/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:50:27 +0000 Andrew Hunt http://productionmusings.com/?p=196 As mentioned in an earlier post, we recently had a baptism service. These services at Blue Ridge are a big deal and always have been in the 8 or 9 years I’ve been a part of this church body. If you’re reading this and have questions about what baptism is all about it’s basically this in a nutshell: it’s what a person does as a symbolic public display of their decision to follow Jesus, it signifies a changed and changing life from the inside out. Often, these events include several stories from individuals followed by all of the baptisms.
For this service I tossed an idea to the rest of the creative programming team: short video snippets of every person. We typically only have time for about 2 extended stories per service and I really thought it’d be great if we could capture just a snippet of everyone’s story. The team liked the concept. The video shorts would be roughly 10-20 seconds per person. I sat down with them, tried my best to help each person feel comfortable in front of the camera and then asked a question. In some form or another it went like this, “What would you want people to see in you now, what difference do you want your life to display?” In every case, they came up with their own answer. Sometimes it took a while to get there but I loved it. What they didn’t say says as much about where they came from and the life they’ve now found in Christ. I liked that this was documentary style video – the aim was to capture something that already happened/is happening and communicate it.
Each video played as they were entering the stage and as their family and friends gathered around. So far we’ve gotten immensely positive feedback about these little shorts. Looks like we’ll be doing them next time too. Tech stuff: they shot with a Panasonic DVX100B at 24p using a very home made 3 point lighting kit over a 2 week period. 37 videos total. Here’s a screen shot of them all followed by how it was used within the service:

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Larry Beasley from Andrew Hunt on Vimeo.

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