Spring Baptism 2023 – Peyton’s story
It was a spring 2023 baptism story. Peyton telling her story of how she struggled through anxiety and depression in her middle school and high school years and how God came about and made her feel loved. Through her counselor she found Liquid and was able to accept Jesus in her heart and decided to make it public and get baptized 🙂 Used 2x Canon R5’s (50mm, 100mm), Aputure 300D as key, Aputure P22C as color backdrop, Aputure 60x as rim, boom mic for audio. Custom white balanced to lock in the warmth of each camera, Neutral with -3 contrast and -1 Saturation to add it in post. The challenge, perhaps in-camera it seemed like the Rembrandt lighting was a bit aggressive but in post production it was easy to correct by raising the shadows and midtones.
Bergen PAC
I used a Sony A7III with a 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 lens shooting at 120 frames. The big moment of this video was showing our church that we were having our women’s conference at a large venue, so I captured footage of four women from our church getting coffee in the area local to that venue. I also grabbed footage from YouTube videos that showed the interior of the venue along with footage of our previous women’s conferences held at our venue.
I can’t say I really encountered any challenges with this project. The toughest part was coordinating the women to all meet at the area, but everything else was smooth. Even the editing process for this was as easy as it’s ever been for me. Once I found the right track, I felt like this video edited itself. I also found the right sound bites from my senior pastor super quickly. This project just had God’s grace written into it.
391 Days
This was a recap/docu about FBC’s rebuild after a major building fire in 2020. This fire along with the pandemic gave us many challenges to overcome as a church.
Credits:
Director/Editor/Photography: Jacob Bain
Additional Photography: Clint Hanna
Audio Support: Eric Russell
“I Speak Jesus” – Charity Gayle (FBC Texarkana Worship Cover)
Single continuous shot music video. Shot with a DJI Ronin with FX3. One person was walking with the stabilizer while another was controlling the Pan/Tilt remotely via iPad. The sound was recorded live.
Credits:
Vocals: Jeffery Patterson, Heather Kiser
Piano: Robin Thomas
Guitar: Alex Inman
Camera: Jacob Bain, Clint Hanna
Audio Mixing: Eric Russell
Producer/Color Corretion: Jay Budzilowski
Lighting: Noah Crissman
Production Assistant: Davis Pounds
FBC Texarkana – Church Faves Vol. 1
Sony FX3 and A7siii Cameras – Handheld and Robotic Crane PTZ – We shot this in a gym so lighting without being too messy with equipment was the hardest part.
Credits:
Acoustic Guitar / Vocal Alex Inman
Vocal Cara Cook
Vocal Rachel Inman
Drums Phillip House
Piano Robin Thomas
Electric Guitar Caleb Kesler
Audio Eric Russell
Video Jacob Bain
Jay Budzilowski
Clint Hanna
“It Takes a Village” – a PAC Refugee Story
This Refugee Story was meant to shine a light on the small ways we can extend Christ’s love to the least of these in our communities. Princeton Alliance Church is located in Plainsboro, NJ, an area where there are more and more opportunities to serve refugees. This particular story centers around an Afghan family being shown the love of Christ by multiple people in the church. We used a lot of natural b-roll scenes and opportunities to showcase the families and people involved. The main challenge was to present this particular refugee family with dignity and confidentiality using creative composition and framing. This was shot on two Sony FX3’s, and a very simple FalconEyes Flex Light lighting setup. A Ronin RS3 was used for stabilization on b-roll scenes.
The Pantry Story at PAC
This mini-documentary was produced to highlight The Pantry at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. This entire operation feeds over 500 people a month across 14 towns and 2 counties in central NJ every single month. It takes a lot of people freely dedicating their time and service to make this happen. This video tells their stories.
We used two Sony FX3’s, a simple FalconEyes Flex light setup and a Ronin RS3 gimbal for stabilizing the b-roll.
Easter Invite
This was very nice to edit, finding all the footage was a little challenging. But I had a blast and people reacted really well when they saw it.
At the Movies Promo
This was to promote the At The Movies series. It was hard to coordinate all the people so we did a bunch of takes. At the end when the pastors disappear people were surprised.
