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This Sunday, we're talking about war. Here's the bumper I made (with the classic Edwin Starr song, War):
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These are the baptism videos for 10.12.08,
I just finished the bumper for this Sunday. we are in a series called Tough Stuff. The message for this Sunday is God's Wrath.
Last week the bumper was 15 seconds long, but Randy gave me the idea of making it longer so that our backstage crew could set up for the message during the bumper rather than the announcements.
I found the song God of Wrath by David Crowder and used it as the base. I added some sonic texture with Designer Sound FX from Video Copilot. By the way, if you aren't familiar with Video Copilot, check them out... TONS of free tutorials for Adobe After Effects.
Anyway, I liked the groove of the Crowder song and used some stills along with the Twitch effect (also from Video Copilot). I added some vignetting to the stills and video and also colorized them with a slight blue wash to give an old "film-y" look. Then I finished the sequence with the same video bumper from last week with the updated info.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
tags: New Covenant Community Church | NewCov | Fresno | sermon | bumper
This week at NewCov we start a new sermon series called, Tough Stuff. During the series we'll be looking at:
- Predestination
- God's Wrath
- War
- Money
- Heaven
- Sex
For heaven, I was thinking maybe going old-school with Warrant's "Heaven" or maybe Bryan Adams' "Heaven." Of course, there's always "I Can Only Imagine," but that seems too obvious.
For God's wrath, I might be able to use Crowder's "God's Wrath." I just need to find a good 10-15 second clip that works.
For sex, it's a little tougher. I might try the "Sex in the City" theme or maybe George Michael's "I Want Your Sex."
Anyway, here's the bumper for this week (it looks really great if you click through to YouTube and click to watch it high quality):
We have a LOT of videos this week (one for announcements and nine baptism videos). Kudos to The Weave for a great job of producing these.
Here's a taste:
Last Sunday was Randy's final Sunday at NewCov. He's now the Lighting and Scenic Director at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA (near Atlanta). The tears were flowing.
Here's a little something Josh and the guys put together for him...
The opener for Father's day was "Soul Man!" Pat rewrote the lyrics so they would be more fitting for this father's day song. We didn't get any LIVE video of the service, but here's the video that rolled during the live performance on the screens. I added the original song to this video so you can get idea.
Soul Man - Father's Day 2008
The Closer for Father's day was "You're Dad!" It's was a parody to Michael Jackson's song "Bad." The kids choir and kids worship team came out to sing this one. This video is from Chad Davis' blog. I believe the video was taken from the front row on a Camera video Phone. Chad is the Children's Music Director at NewCov. He came up with this idea and ran with it. He made all the band charts and rewrote the lyrics too.
You're Dad
It's awesome to have two really talented music guys (BANDOS) like Chad & Pat on the Production team at NewCov. These guys rock!
This Video Loop ran inside the Church on the Main(side) Screens during walk-in and walk-out. This was a great way to highlight the Graduating Seniors that attend New Covenant. There is no audio on this video. We just played the walk-in music.
NewCov High School Seniors - 2008
Jason Ray was a popular student at
Read the Oraph story HERE.
Visit the Jason Ray Foundation website HERE.
The Jason Ray Story. (CBS)
Photos from Ray of Hope Sunday at NewCov.
Live Interview at NewCov (part01)
Live Interview at NewCov (part02)
Finished up another great sermon series at NewCov this Sunday. The Leadership Toolbox was a four week series. The highlight was the "funny" bumper video that set-up each message. Make sure to check them out. Here's some pictures.
Week four, of the Leadership series, Pastor Jan was speaking on Commitment. We decided to have a little fun with this sermon series. The idea was to make "FUNNY" bumper videos for each week. Many people have enjoyed them very much. Some have not!
Starting Randy Parker and Pat Callahan! These videos set up the message with a "tool"... except we get the idea wrong. Here's week three. Check it out.
THE LEADERSHIP TOOLBOX #4
If you ever need to slice a watermelon and don't have a knife around...
use a T-Square!
Week three, of the Leadership series, Pastor Jan was speaking on Integrity. We decided to have a little fun with this sermon series. The idea was to make "FUNNY" bumper videos for each week. Many people have enjoyed them very much. Some have not!
Starting Randy Parker and Pat Callahan! These videos set up the message with a "tool"... except we get the idea wrong. Here's week three. Check it out.
THE LEADERSHIP TOOLBOX #3
Here at NewCov, we like to use a "Ministry Highlight" video for the services as much as possible. This communicates to everyone what's going on in a particular ministry. Sometimes it's showing some footage of the Children's Education/VBS program from the week before. Or it could be a simple little slide show of a building project that the Men's Ministry team did while working downtown. Whatever the ministry is, and whatever the ministry is doing, it's just great to highlight what God's doing in the life of the church.
Josh and Randy, put together two videos for this Sundays services. They both were played at the same time for the offertory time. (The videos highlighted the Family Missions team, who went down to Mexico during their Easter Break.) We decided to utilize the center screen for more than a title slide or a jumback grovin' along. The idea was to just simply show more pictures. We made the sides screens the main (could stand alone) video. This one had all the titles and felt like a whole video in its self. The center screen was just more graphic support to the sides video. The timing felt good and it was pretty neat.
*Press Play on both of them at the same time. Hopefully they play at the same time and same speed. You will probably need to mute the center screens audio. The song is "Give it all away," by Aaron Shust.
Center Screen
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Here's some of the videos we showed on Mother's day.
"What makes your mom the best mom ever?" (interviews)
"Mom, Your my best friend" (Queen song)
Anita Renfroe "momisms"
Here's some pictures of the Mother's Day Service.
Continuing the Leadership series, Pastor Jan was speaking on Vision this week. Remember!?!? We decided to have a little fun with this sermon series. The idea was to make funny bumper videos for each week. Many people have enjoyed them very much.
Starting Randy Parker and Pat Callahan! These videos set up the message with a "tool"... except we get the idea wrong.
Here's week two. Check it out.
THE LEADERSHIP TOOLBOX #2
Tech Joke #002
Q: How many musicians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Twenty. 1 to do it and the other 19 to stand around and say, "I can do that!"
Last Sunday at New Covenant we decided to take the Communion Worship Time up a notch. And a huge notch is what we got. We take communion on the last Sunday of pretty much very month. We do the "passing of the trays" style of communion, the majority of the time. You know... the silver plates with the little cups and the little wafers in the middle? (But sometimes we do it a "new way." The next time we do it the other way, Randy will post on it.)
Since we have been using a center screen for the last couple of series. Pat had a idea to throw up some images or clips from the Movie, "Passion of the Christ." While at the same time using the outside screens to display words or lyrics. The worship team sang the song, "Jesus paid it all" the North Point Live version.
NewCov WT - Jesus paid it all - During Communion.
Wow! It was a very powerful time of worship. You could see people really responding. Some raised their hands. Some just scared at the screen. Some did close their eyes or look down at the cup and bread. We were a little nervous about some of the images being to graphic for younger children in the service, but Pastor Jän gave us his approval before the service. We have used these clips in a service before and gotten plenty of negative comments. But that didn't stop us to show it again. These images really happened and this was not a service for children. And you know what? We got NO comments this time around. I think it is because of the way we used the clips this time. His body broken and his blood shed for us. It was a prefect fit to use during communion.
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The Sticks Team - A team of young children dancing to a choreograph song and dance, while using dowel rods as props in the hands. Sometimes they use even use batons with lights in them!
We try and use the Sticks Team for the "special services" as much as possible. It's just another great way to get children's ministry involved on the stage. Plus, it is a very powerful use of drama. This past Easter we had them preform to a song that fit our theme of AMAZING (Grace). The song was by FFH called "I'm Amazed."
NewCov Stick Team - "I'm Amazed" by FFH. (easter2008)
*This was only a one camera shoot at the front of the house. The camera was sitting on the edge of the lighting booth filming this. Sometimes people walk by it and there heads are in the way. And you can also hear talking too. Plus the camera was not even white balanced. So the colors are a little off. But you get the basic idea. I really liked the walk-in music.
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