An entire post will be up by this weekend hopefully detailing the whole process (not so much technical, but some), but more on why we had an outside consultant (Bob Nahrstadt http://www.nextcreativemedia.com/) come in to calibrate our systems. But until then, here is a photo update from Day 1 of 2.

I was very pleased once we secured the rental on this particular model due to the fact that this is the model I am hoping to put into another auditorium once we are able to upgrade projectors for our kids space. But enough about the projector right now, back to the reason for the B&W Film effect. Knowing that we would have a center screen element during the opener on Sunday I threw out a personal idea I have had for a bit in our creative meeting last Tuesday. With an song like “Awakening” by Switchfoot and starting a new series titled, “Man School” I thought my idea might be possible. For many years I have watched either concerts live or on TV that had some type of B&W old film footage playing on large screens or LED’s behind the band. The video did not have anything concrete to do with the songs, I feel like its there just to create a different type of visual for the audience. So I threw out the idea of putting together a video to play only on the center screen with different shots and speeds of a large city like New York. The idea made it to the board and I was in charge of putting it together, which was something new in of itself.

So once I finished the video and checked it on Friday night in the room, I programed the lighting to enhance the video and not take away from it. I stuck to a dark blue on my band wash and kept all the Martin 250 spots on a hard beam with CTO color. This color combination brought out the B&W better than any other as well as kept it very “rock-n-roll” look. But once we ran through it for the first time all together seeing the IMAG feed in color was taking value away from the B&W idea, so we decided to utilize our Ross Synergy 100SD switcher and apply a real-time effect. That is where the B&W old film look came about. We add the scratches, grain, vignette, film jumps, etc. to match the center screen video content. Below is the video shown on the center screen along with the IMAG video of what was seen on the side screens. In the end I was very happy with the outcome and the overall experience of everything coming together as one look.

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Yesterday we kicked off a new 4-Part Series at Port City Community Church we have titled “Man School“. The new series was a little refreshing personally after a 10 Week series that took us all the way through the summer. Here is a brief description of the new series from our website:

There’s an educational crisis in our culture today. We’ve all grown up with this idea of what it means to be a man that’s based on a set of shallow stereotypes–but do we REALLY know what it means to be a man or woman the way God intends us to be? In this series, we want to pull back the layers of our cultural drift toward gender-neutrality, and examine the created differences in us that God intends for His purposes. Join us as we spend these four weeks together as classmates in Man School!

Today I wanted to quickly share two videos with you guys from Sunday. First we kicked off the day with the song “Awakening” by Switchfoot as our opener along with a new edition to the stage design which included a center projector screen. Im working on another post describing why the video has an old B&W film look to it as well as the video content that supplemented the opener. But until tomorrow, you can check out the opening song below:

And Second our Media Team knocked it out of the park with a new bumper that was written and filmed entirely in-house. You can watch that video below:

This week I will be unpacking:

1. the installation of the center projector (nothing serious, but a few little tricks I found to make the install much easier)
2. explain why the opener was B&W and post the video that accompanied song which played on the center screen
3. and possibly a short interview with Joey Connolley, who directed the new series bump for “Man School”

Why you ask that I “Literally Started It Over Again”. Below is why I was up until 4am last night in a “I can’t stop until its done mode.”