Al Weiss, President of World Wide Operations of Walt Disney Theme Parks (His Bio Here), spoke at Northwood last Sunday. He gave a powerful charge to the men of our congregation to better balance their work and home life. He’s risen to the pinacle of the business realm, yet still keeps his family as a priority. He was an unbelievably humble man.
I’m a Disney nut, so it was a lot of fun to get to meet and work alongside him.
Here’s a couple of pictures from the service:
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This is a motion graphic that I threw together to advertise Northwood’s upcoming Live Recording September 18th. As you’ll notice there is no sound because I made this as part of the pre-roll video we show before service. I’m sure I’ll add sound too it later, but for now, you get to watch the “silent” version. Anyway, the video and graphics turned out great.
This was my first video shoot with my new Cannon t2i. Turned out great!
Our next sermon series is called “Go Big or Go Home”. It’s a sermon series dealing with Faith based out of Hebrews 11. I struggled a long time with what to have the sermon series look like. So I finally came up with the base image, or the logo, for the series:
And once I got it to look like how I wanted it to look like, I had no idea how to make it move. So I racked my brains and tried story boarding it out. After about 10 pages crumpled up and trashed, I decided on a storyboard: (if you can’t tell by my awful handwriting, I haven’t hand written anything in a long time – haha)
Once the storyboard was complete, the animation was underway, and here’s what I ended up with:
On Tuesday, Keller Independent School District used our facilities to host their yearly teacher convocation. Over 3,600 educators stormed the doors of Northwood Church at 8:30 and 12:30. We hosted their convocation last year, and everyone had a great time. This year, the anticipation was even greater.
Last year the theme was a late night talk show, hosted by the superintendant of KISD Dr. V. This year, the KISD media team put together a game show theme, covering shows like Family Fued, Jeopardy, Let’s Make a Deal, and The Price is Right (with a giant PLINKO board).
With over 72 lighting cues, and well over 100 video cues, the event was awesome, and Northwood was able to bless thousands of local educators. Here’s a quick clip (and I mean quick) of the teachers getting ready for the convocation to start. You can tell they were excited and expecting something just as awesome as last year.
So, by nature of my job, I’m usually behind the camera, not so much in front of the camera. But this video called for quick action! I had filmed Brent Minter in the studio working on Northwood’s first worship album, Feet That Move. We wanted to get the video out to our people as quickly as we could, but we needed something at the beginning to set up the piece. This is one of those videos that people might not understand considering its our first worship record.
So I stepped up to the plate! Not only that, but my wife filmed me about ten minutes before open doors of an event one night. Talk about pressure! Anyway, the video turned out great. Take a look at behind the scenes of Northwood Church in the studio:
Any Videographer knows that it’s terribly hard to edit yourself. ugh.
The live recording for Feet That Move is September 18th! Be there!
It’s that time again. Every year, Northwood Church sends around 1500 volunteers to Haltom City, Texas, to makeover four families’ houses. The participation, outcome, and impact are tremendous ever year! I can’t wait for this year’s home makeover. Because I was filming, or in this instance taking pictures, I got to meet Jimmy Dorsey (the subject in the video). He was an incredible man. As the story will tell you he’s been through a lot. When we first contacted him about fixing his house, he was very reluctant and stand-offish. He wasn’t sure if he wanted anything to do with anyone, let alone a bunch of Christians. Northwood didn’t give up on him though. They kept visiting him, bringing him food, and just spending time with him. Since then, Jimmy has opened up. We’ve noticed huge smiles on his face every time we visit. His heart is really opening up to the Love of Christ. I’m more than excited about what this year’s Home Makeover means to this man.
Check out the video we put together telling the story of Jimmy Dorsey:
For a look at last years highlight video click here.
I’m pumped. Brent Minter and I will be heading out to Echo Conference 2010 today! We’ll be there over the next three days, surrounded by fellow media and production nerds. It’s going to be awesome.
So, two posts ago, I said that I would post some of the different Ideas we had coming into CommonUnity. So here they are:
I published a post called “sometimes it happens“. In this post I talked about a sermon design that we were planning on and we ended up changing directions. I had already built the bump for a sermon series titled essentials and I really wanted to salvage it. So I tried the new CommonUnity sermon series title in the same treatment as the essentials so I wouldn’t have to rebuild a bump. So with that being said, here’s where we started:
Didn’t really capture the uniqueness of the sermon series. But, I didn’t give up on my already made bump that I was proud of… So I just tried repositioning to try and save it:
No Luck… So time to scratch the bump and everything else and start from the beginning. So I tried to really focus on the font work of the piece and I came out with a font treatment that I really enjoyed:
I wasn’t too crazy about the background. I had no idea how I would work that into a bump. So I stuck with the font work and went after the background and came up with this:
The idea was golden! So I took a core issue in the sermon series, the trinity, made a diagram of the trinity, slapped it on the wall next to the sermon title and badda-bing badda-boom:
So a while back, we had a lot of our folks say that they had no idea we had video sermons online for them to watch during the week. So to combat that a bit, I made a quick video that goes in our announcement loop before service. Turned out pretty nice – only took ten minutes to make from start to finish! Let me know what you think of this simple video.
We just released the teaser for the upcoming sermon series “CommonUnity”. This short teaser was a lot of fun to make and has a lot of little details in it that most people won’t see (oh the woes of a videographer-haha). Anyway, I usually make my videos where everything can be seen surface [...]
There’s a danger in getting ahead. Sometimes the plan changes. Yup, sometimes it happens. This would be one of those times. We were planning on doing a full series on the essentials of our faith… the trinity, holy spirit, baptism, lords supper… etc…
The first time this year I got ahead in [...]
