Session: Tuesday - Breakout Sessions (1:30 PM - 2:15 PM)

“Covid has had a tremendous effect on the amount of people attending services. Even before the pandemic, attendance had dropped to an average of 47% for all houses of religion. Today it is more important than ever to reach your congregation where they are, and this discussion will be about some of the tools and techniques that my team have found effective to approach your audience in the medium that they are accustomed to, with content and production value that will maintain their attention while creating an environment to deliver your message.

Sometimes the easiest solution is to just throw a music track on top of the dialog, adjust the levels and call it a night. But how do you take your audio to the next level where everything works together to give your project that life that only comes from a great mix? Join us as we discover the tools and techniques to help create a great audio master.

Video success or failure is usually determined before the first frame of footage is even captured. Nothing is more frustrating that trying to create a good edit only to realize you don’t have the elements you need to tell your story, especially when working under social distancing restrictions. Join us as we discover what it takes to make sure your pre-production game is strong.

In this session we’ll go over how to create a bumper or title sequence in an all-virtual environment using Unreal Engine. It may sound impossible, but we’ll import free photorealistic 3D assets, create virtual cameras and lenses, and animate a little bit of camera motion. In the course of this 45-minute session, we’ll demonstrate the basics of setting up a completely CG shot in a photorealistic environment. We’ll go over how you can apply this technology to bumpers, shorts, and even still graphics. What’s more, we’ll accomplish all this using affordable equipment.