I published one of our scripts from the worship portion of our wknd service earlier this week. Love the feedback. One reader (from another church) commented that CFPB has more light cues in one of our songs than they do for their entire service. That made me 1) laugh 2) appreciate the CF Staff, for allowing us to push the envelope 3) appreciate our volunteers, for running alongside and helping us raise the bar. (All light programming every week is done completely by Stephen Farr, a stud of a volunteer).
Anyway, met with most of CFPB's Camera Directors today. Great conversation. Love these guys, and their desire to do bigger and better things... within the context of church. I've met volunteers (and staff) that want to do super/huge/crazy/phenomenal stuff... but it doesn't fit in the context of church. So if it doesn't fit, you must acquit! why do it?
We talked about how much effort we put into "producing" the worship portion of the service. We NAIL worship every week! That 25 minute portion of the service, visually on camera, is awesome. A lot of work, both staff and volunteer, goes into worship.
Honestly, not as much goes into teaching. I felt guilty about it. Teaching is 40-45 minutes of our service, almost 2/3rds of our average service. We go through all this effort to plan out the worship, but then the teaching portion is very haphazard. Not that it's bad, but visually I don't think we were executing at the level we could. We just weren't using all the resources we have available to us.
Not anymore! Teaching is going to get it's due. Visually, there's a lot that cameras can do to help aid the message shared during teaching. A tight shot when the teacher is being open. A slow, gentle push when the teacher is building his point. We can use these visuals to tell a story, to reinforce/strengthen what the teacher is saying...
How are we going to achieve this?
- We've added a third, economical camera (thank you Hector!) that will enable us to get a much tighter shot of the teacher
- We are scripting the message portion. We were scripting before, slide numbers/etc. But why not go into greater detail for teaching. Mark points and do the legwork for our volunteer directors and cameramen. Writing it out helps to produce a coordinated effort on the message portion at CFPB. Scripting allows for a consistent level of excellence, regardless of what service you attend.
- You're going to help us. Yeah, you. Click here, and see how easy it is to help out in Media, and then come join us! It's simple. We'll tell you what to do and when to do it. All you have to do is be willing to do it.
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