Bloggin the Podcast

Happy New Year! Time for a change of scenery. I wasn’t planning on this, but I was working at Church this morning and things were going well. Bill was back (our Lead Pastor, he was sick last weekend), he was talking about God’s Grace and I was finally starting to feel it for the first time in weeks. It felt so good I wanted to share it. So I asked my good friend Les Faires, he’s the Media Director on staff at Neighborhood Church, if I could shoot a few pictures with my phone. He said sure, go ahead, so I’ve posted some shots of the video control room in action. This is where we edit the video for the video podcast as well as the video venues at church on Sunday. We have overflow services they call “video venues”. One of them has no live worship music, so we shoot the worship music for them at the early service on Sunday. The video podcast can be seen anywhere in the world with an internet connection, and you don’t need an iPod. You can watch it on your computer.

If you click on the picture on the left, you can kind of see Ashley in the director’s seat and Steve sitting next to her. Ashley was directing the three camera operators and mixing those three images and Steve was at the graphics station overlaying the graphics on the screen. I run the audio board, which you can see in that third picture. I had all the channels muted and faded out completely except for Bill’s channel. The music was done and Bill was speaking. That’s Josh on camera two in the last picture. One and three are down in the auditorium in the back corners.

What a great way to start the year! If you don’t go to church much and you want to get 2008 off to a great start spiritually speaking, I encourage you to click over to the podcast page and watch one of Bill’s messages. They’re completely painless, really! Bill is never boring I can assure you. You’ll be uplifted and you don’t even have to get dressed.

Have an awesome 2008!