Men and Boys Fishing Trip promo with apologies to “Gilligan’s Island”.
This video was a Christmas promo at our church for previous Announcement Videos. It was used as a fundraiser for the youth.
This video was one of 6 in a series on our new church values. Our values are things that are currently true of our church body and things we want to hold onto as we move forward. This particular story was based on our value of The City: Our identity is deeply rooted in Orlando. Our Christlike leadership in the city matters. We stay and we serve without expectation or condition, because we are part of the social fabric of the city. The film ends with Susu writing out our value and hanging it in our main hallway at the…
In the wake of the George Floyd protest and rioting, the church communities from all denominations in Orlando came together for a day of prayer, mourning, and restoration. Our church community participated in the event and our lead pastor, Dr. David Swanson, provided a speech to the entire crowd. He urged everyone to see the church body as a unified body and that as a white man he may not see the pain of the black community but that it was our job to carry that burden with them to a place of healing and restoration. It was a powerful…
This project was a video we shot to promote the construction of our new Children’s Ministry Center. Our Kid’s ministry has never had an auditorium of their own and were very limited on classrooms in our current building. Our Lead Pastor has dreamt for years to construct a building that was dedicated to the future of our church, our Children’s Ministry. In October 2019, his vision came to pass as we broke ground and began building a brand new Children’s Ministry Center that is entirely made for our children. This video was a personal favorite as it was meant so…
This was a fun narrative project we did a few years back for our Christmas Eve Services. We spent months planning it out and it is personally my favorite project I have ever done as it helped my build my skills as an aspiring filmmaker. We shot this over the course of 3 weekends on location at church members farm. At the time we did not have much equipment so we used a Sony FS100 Camera to shoot on and used some AKG mics back at the church for the VoiceOver recordings. The biggest challenges presented was working with kids…
We were having a Volunteer Appreciation event and wanted to present this video for our many volunteers to let them know how a church would look without their help. We used the Canon XF105 with a Sennheiser shotgun mic going directly into the camera. It was mostly a run-and-gun production, so we utilized a shoulder rig for our handheld shots. All the actors are CCO staff, CCO members and their families. Our main challenge was scheduling. We filmed after services to get our crowd shot and during services in the parking lot and Children’s classrooms. Some filming was during the…
The video is a promotional tool that is part documentary and narrative describing the history of the church and the experience of being a member of the church.
We had a sermon series called Alchemy. As a fun little play off of that, we made a fictional character, Dr. Al Chemy that would try some experiment or quest each week. That experiment or quest would of course fail and then after the video the pastor (who was also Dr. Al Chemy) would share the truth. We used a Sony 4k camcorder, a green screen and some dead trees from my back yard. This whole process was fun as it was all done on a Thursday and shown that Sunday. And when I say done on a Thursday I…