Service as Worship

Heyo - welcome to the first entry in this blog! My name is Scott and I work for Eastview Christian Church as their Director of Video Productions. Long story short, I get to play with really cool toys...I mean tools... and work with a great group of volunteers.

This blog will serve mostly to take you behind the scenes of the production work that happens at ECC both in live production and in the studio. I'll try not to get too geeky on you but just a forewarning it'll happen from time to time, just smile and not when I talk about progressive frame rates, overcranking and ramble endlessly about the merits of a good matte box.

We'll start with a piece that was created for a worship service on Service as worship. The two testimonies in this video come from two different different service events. One is from a church wide campaign to give away coats, food and toys in December (this year over 600 families came to take part in the event.) And the other from random acts of service that our college age ministry has done. On a couple of different occasions, they've gone out and just randomly bought gas, dinner, groceries for people. The kingdom impact from those events and the stories of lives touched would take far more space than this blog will allow.

We decided to shoot the testimonies and set up the shoot for the next week, which was perfect because it gave me time to set-up and tinker with some new gear that I had acquired for the Gather Small Group DVD. The format that we went with was a standard interview format, Baker would be asking the questions and the people would talk with him. Pretty straight forward lighting with a key and fill, a rim light to the back left of the subject and a gelled background light. You can see everything but the rim light in the shot.

I'm shooting on a Sony PMW EX1 with the Letus Ultimate 35mm adapter, which allows for incredible images that look very filmlike.