Week one of the new series - Leadership Toolbox
For the next four weeks, Pastor Jan is going to look at four aspects of a great leader in this sermon series. We decided to have a little fun with this series. The idea was to make a funny bumper video for each week. Starting Randy Parker and Pat Callahan! These will set up the message with a "tool"... except we get the idea wrong.
The first one was submission. Check it out.
The Leadership Toolbox #1
We showed this video for the offertory song on youth Sunday. This video highlights NewCov High School ministry going to San Francisco and NewCov College ministry going to Utah during Easter Vacation.
This video was made, with only a little bit of my help, by one of the many "youngsters" on the production team at newcov. (We had more guys under the age 18 than over.) Josh has really been a great help for this team. He is a excellent learner for picking up new material quickly and trains others very well. Great job Josh on this video. It's great to have you on the production team.
This Weekend for NewCov was all about the youth. We had the, Friday, Debate at Fresno State, the Symposium, on Saturday, on our campus, and this Sunday was a youth Sunday. The College band lead us in worship. There was 12 youth baptisms in the services. We showed a video "slide show" of the two student ministry missions during easter break. Plus... we had Dr. Chap Clark speak as well.
Here's the promo video we ran last sunday for the symposium at newcov.
Here's the promo video we ran a few Sundays ago for the debate & symposium.
April 18, 2008, 7:00 pm
California State University, Fresno - South Gym
The God Question: A Debate
between Dinesh D'Souza, author of What's So Great About
Christianity and Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine and moderated by Ray Appleton of KMJ Radio 580's "The Ray Appleton Show."
The load-in started at noon. We had to first put down a trap on the gym floor. Then the stage got into place. Follow by lighting, sound and video. He had a few issues here and there. But overall the load-in went pretty smoothly. We were ready for show in plenty of time. We brought in our own church video equipment to film a two camera shoot of the event. It really need a four camera shoot. But I was pleased with the outcome of the video anyways.
The event was a huge great success. Tons of people showed up. (1400 total inside!) And there was plenty of people outside listening as well. (250!) We plan on doing this event yearly. Looking forward to next year all ready. Look for the Full length video online soon at the debate website.
Wrapped up another great sermon series at NewCov. Amazing Grace was a four week series. The highlight for me was that we got to open the series with AMAZING Easter Sunday.
Pastor Pat Callahan - Please do not disturb. WHY?
Here at newcov we do baby dedications second service. The Pastor preforming the dedication comes out and welcomes the parents and family to the stage. The piano player then starts to play a little baby tune as we roll the video.
Live Baby Dedication at NewCov. (CAMERA TWO)
THE VIDEO: The video is just a cute jumpback with the words baby dedication scrolling though it. Then the picture of the baby and the names fade up shortly after. This just rolls for the duration of the prayer and dedication of the baby. After they are done, we get out of it with a fade to black. If it goes for "f o r e v e r ", the video will loop seamlessly.
NewCov - baby dedication video (sample)
BDV-TEMPLATE: I made a template project in Premiere-Pro that is all done ready to go for each week. I just rename the new baby picture and place it into the project folder. So when I open the project... boom baby. The new picture is already imported and just needs a little resizing. I then enter in the new names on the title and I'm done. It takes longer to open the project, and export the video, then to make the video.
On Easter Sunday's newcov always has an early sunrise baptism service. This year Pat had a great idea to film just the "dunks" and put it together for a Worship Background for the offertory song in the Easter services. So I did just that. I filmed just the dunks and run into the booth before the services started and edited a quick video. I already had the template made, and ready to go. I just captured the footage, added transitions and slowed it down. It turned out pretty good I think. It was a great way to end the service. Great idea patamo! And thanks for the help weave!
NewCov - Easter - Worship Background - Amazing Grace
Remember: This is a worship background for a song in the service. We just place this as the background in Easy Worship for the songs lyrics or words. I placed the music on this video so that it wouldn't be so boring to watch. Plus, you can get a better idea of how it worked for us. Also, I put this together pretty quickly, no comments on bad editing!
TECH GUY: "NO, those are for lazy people." "Waste of money." "Dumb!"
WORSHIP LEADER: "YEAH, We need some of those!" "SWEET!"
I got us a NEW Sound Board for the Chapel at newcov today. We used it tonight for the first time at the mid-week service. What a difference a good sound board can make for the mix. It was like night and day for us. So much more of a cleaner sound. Even with our "portable" amps and speakers on sticks if sounded better. We have been using a Mackie 16 channel portable board. I really like these Allen & Heath boards. We have the ML5000 with a side car in the main sanctuary. So I went with the GL2400 for in the Chapel. It's pretty solid. I like it, I like it a lot!
Here's some Pictures from the Amazing Easter at New Covenant.
This is how we've been doing ours announcements in our Sunday morning services lately. I love how she has everyones attention. This has been a very effective way to communication information to the congregation about key events or just plan info we want them to know about. It also is a great way to throw to a bumper video before the message. No intro needed. Just roll it! And the Pastor walks up right on cue every time.
Announcement Person & Message Bumper Video
Bumper video made by the weaveman.
The last song of the RESCUE series.
(One camera video at Front of House)
Cross Of Love - LIVE at NewCov
Just finished a three week sermon series at NewCov called "RESCUE" this Sunday. All the messages were out of the book of Luke, chapter 15, the three Lost Parables.
The whole 12 hour day in a 3min (long version) video. There's also a 1min (short version) we'll show on Sunday morning this week. The song is "A friend like that," by Hawk Nelson.
Fast Forward (long version) Hawk Nelson Concert
Fast Forward (short version) Hawk Nelson Concert
Hawk Nelson & Run Kid Run - Green T Tour - March 11th LIVE at NEWCOV
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
What a fun day today was! It was long, but it was good! The production crew for this tour was right on. They came in prepared and ready to go. I really didn't have to say much or do much for them. They knew what they wanted and they got it done. They really spent some time in the prep work to make sure the Load-in and Load-out went easy and smoothly.
The lighting was really good. He used the fixtures effectively and it was cool. They even had CO2 blasts! I loved the use of the three projection screens. They added a lot of movement and excitement to the stage. I also loved that they use catalyst for video playback. The Catalyst system allows you to control video on your lighting board. The sound was mixed great too. The sound DB's were the loudest NewCov has ever heard. The meter read over 110db for the majority of the night with peaks into 120db. YEAH! I thought the acoustic panels were gonna fall out from the ceiling! Rock on!
Hawk Nelson and Run Kid Run - LIVE at NEWCOV.
Just chillin' at FOH (Front of House) with the guys and waiting for the Concert to start at NewCov. They're in a "Meet-n-Green" right now for special guests. We started Load-in at 1000am this morning and it went up quickly. Doesn't Look or seem like a lot to this rig, but they do have their fair share of cool things and gear. The production team did a great job of prep for this tour. The whole thing went up smoothly. More on the concert and tech later on tonight!
For those of you who don't get a "backstage access pass" to newcov production. Here's a few shots of the back stage/tech room/green room at New Covenant. I spent some time cleaning it up this afternoon. It's starting to look nice back here, but I still have plenty of work to do. My Fix It bucket is overflowing!
