Comments on: Church and Video

By: synapticlight

synapticlight — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:32 +0000

Thanks Dylan for that.
I agree with you on the DVD Church thing, I will always prefer the live service. But in essence, and especially true for a live video feed, there really is no difference when it comes to the message and how God uses it to communicate to those that would listen.

As for the effort I put into the Stellywood production – I could not have done anything without the rest of the team, so props out to the guys that helped put together the short film; from the script to the dude that were there in the days we shot (including you and yer Dad).

One thing is for certain, Video (or Film for that matter) aint no one man show – if it is then it aint gonna get far. For it is a multi-skilled, multi-hatted and multi-tasked workflow that requires a dedicated team to drive and champion it.

By: Dylan Scullard

Dylan Scullard — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Wow, rather interesting 4 year timeline Phill…I think the 10B4 is an awsum, way more interesting than someone just standing in the front anouncing all these adverts. As soon as the 10B4 is up everyone goes silent and starts sitting down and is facinated. They are probably trying to work out which segments were made by you, and which are from Northpoint, or thats what I do at least…Its very good at drawing people. Our video serves many purposes and serevice would struggle without it, the lyrcs, and the verses during a sermon are crucial. The video shouldnt seep into the backround, bt it shouldnt be too blatant either.

I know some churchs just watch DVDs evey week but it does get annoying, I much rather prefer an actual paster, although it is interesting watching a dvd some times, for example, the indescribable DVD a while ago. Wow.

When we, (Or 95% you) made that Stellywood production, it had to be very short because it was being played in the service. think we should make more movies, and just show the trailers on sunday mornings, and have movie evenings after kidstuf…and sell the DVD…

By: synapticlight

synapticlight — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:02 +0000

Ron, that Hi-8 was a launch pad

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:21:29 +0000

‘which’ in my last sentence should have been ‘wish’

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:20:48 +0000

On the whole ‘Video church’ church thing, I have attended an annual conference over the past 5 years that relies completely on video for it’s content. Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. God has used this conference in churches all over the world, and you can really hear God speaking through a lot of the speakers (the Christian ones anyway) even though the message is played via DVD.

Some of the most impacting messages in the life of our church have been delivered via DVD (Canvas and Matrix for example).

On the other comments – sorry for inflicting the Hi-8 on you. I which I had known more and had a bigger budget at the time.

By: Nathanael Hastings

Nathanael Hastings — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:50:38 +0000

Well, that was very insightful! For me personally going to a video church does not seem to be any different, I think that it actually can allow for some very creative things to happen that have a high impact. Personally having the right gear makes a world of a difference, it is like anything, if you want to drive a screw into wood, would you rather do it by hand or use a drill? same thing for equipment, and yes it does cost money, but hey what doesn’t?

Video church in my opinion allows for more growth than a non video church. especially if you want to keep the experience the same.

That is my 2 cents.