Christmas Special
A special event to promote our Christmas Eve services.
Unite NYC
This video project was a recap to promote one of the first of many prayer walk series that our church will be doing called Unite NYC. I used the Panasonic Lumix GH5 with the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 + Viltrox Speedbooster on a monopod. I also used the DJI Osmo Pocket and some smartphone shots. Other than using manual focus for all shots on the GH5, shooting this whole event was possibly the hardest shoot I’ve had to do as in order to get footage of the walking congregation from the front, back, and all the different angles, I had to run almost everywhere back and forth. I also had to balance the weight of shooting B-roll versus recording the long and important speeches of the people selected to pray. I used a Saramonic Blink 500 Pro B2, which is an amazing 2TX to 1RX wireless microphone system to capture the exhortation and prayer audios. I had some help with an assistant who would shoot on a smartphone or the DJI Osmo Pocket on occasion.
Raleigh Community Prayer Walk
I used a cannon c100 mk2, mostly just run and gun trying to capture moments. The biggest challenges were staying ahead of the march, getting close to the speakers without distracting them, and it being crazy hot outside. Also searching facebook profiles for people who took video that day of the speakers so I could get their audio.
Easter 2021 Promo
This year, our Easter services held a doubly joyful meaning for us at Citylight. Along with us celebrating Jesus’s resurrection, we were also celebrating the opening of our main church campus for the first time since we had to go online during the pandemic. This promo video tells the story of our church from the past year.
I mainly shoot on an Canon Eos-R. Our voice over was a church member Jeslin Mathew. I had two second shooters: Andreas Wierschen and Abby King. Becky Wierschen edited and produced the video.
Worth Trailer
“Worth” is a micro-short film, which shares a beautiful story-testimonial of CC Smith who felt devalued but desired to overcome low self-esteemed. After reflecting the shortcomings viewed by others, the value and acceptance of self-worth was established.
Worth
Shot on a red camera, a 60 sec promo video for our annual women’s conference.
Best Promo 2021
Church Center App
We shot this video for use in our weekend experiences with the goal of making it extremely easy and compelling for an attendee to download a new mobile app.
This one was fun to shoot for a couple of reasons. The app has a distinct color palette, so we enjoyed doing our best to match that with the lighting on set using a couple of GVM RGB fixtures. This was also our social media coordinator’s first time in front of the camera. While it took her a few extra takes, I think the final video comes across very natural.
Happy Father’s Day
We did an Arby’s theme father’s day video.
Kairos – Night of Worship
Promo video for a special night of worship for our college/young adult ministry. This promo was shot on Black Magic Pocket Cinema 6k Pro. To get some of my favorite shots, we had to shoot during sound check so we could get on stage to film things we wouldn’t be able to with people in the room.
