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.
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!
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:
Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence.
I came across this video recently that highlights a great little tune by Oren Lavie called “Her Morning Elegance.” The video was directed by Yuval and Merav Nathan as well as Oren Lavie. From all I’ve read, it was shot with a still photograph camera placed above the bed over a 2 day period. The video is made up of over 3,000 still images. In my mind, stop motion has been a kind of novelty way of making a video but in this case it’s just beautifully done! Here’s one I find myself watching over and over!
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