On Today’s Show, it’s a family episode as we welcome Grant Murphy from our 12:30 Team. Grant is one of our Video Producers and has produced literally hundreds of videos for our Worship Media library and Custom clients. Today we’re going to be talking all about Talking Head and Testimony Videos. We’re going to walk through some very basic as well as advanced tips and tricks for shooting those types of videos at your church.

From what gear to use, how to lighting your subject, tips on audio recording, making your subject feel comfortable, how to choose on screen talent and more.

Also on Today’s Show, a veteran Church Media guy who went from serving on a Church Staff to producing feature films - Alex Kendrick will be here. You know Alex from the Kendrick Brother’s movies Fireproof, War Room, Courageous, Overcomer. He and his brother Stephen have a new documentary hitting theaters this week called SHOW ME THE FATHER.

When we talk about how to shoot and craft testimony videos - this is a powerful example of that as the film showcases several fathers and their stories. The film hits theaters September 10th and we’ll be talking with Alex about how they shot the documentary, and what to expect from the film and how you can support it.

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Nikki has a strong passion for the church. And specifically has a desire to see unification in the church through worship. 

Her heart for people will encourage you today and come across through this conversation. 

She will also be at SALT 2021 pre-conference workshops talking about all things worship.

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On this episode we are talking lighting and LED walls today with Justin Firesheets and Adam Hobson. They serve in the production realm at the Church of the Highlands.

Enjoy this conversation which will be both technical but easy to understand about how to set up and use LED walls in effective and creative ways. Seeing the wall almost as a canvas and set design tool, not just a playback screen for your videos.

If you are using this tool, or thinking about branching into this world, check out this episode, we think it will help you.

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This month on the podcast we are playing some sessions from SALT 2020. We had an inspiring time hearing from Carey Nieuwhof and Gabe Lyons last week 

This episode we are hearing from worship leader, singer and song writer,  Kierre Lindsay. 

He will talk about developing a culture on a worship team. How to create a team, instruct them, and how to develop that team. Truthfully though, these principles can be used on any team! 

We think this will be of great use for you all who help lead teams in your churches and contexts.

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This week’s episode of the show is going to be very unique. We are going to share a main session from SALT 2020 with you today.

We’ll welcome Carey Nieuwhof - founding pastor of Connexus Church, Author, Podcaster, Speaker

and Gabe Lyons - Gabe is the founder of Q - which educates and mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. He is the author of multiple books, served on the team that launched Catalyst and more.

This will be an interview with these two guys, moderated by our friend Joseph Sojourner. And he alked to these guys about the future of the church - what’s next?

Keep in mind, this session was recorded late last year, so there may be some things that they talk about that may or may not apply to your church any more. What we really want you to hear is some of the insight from these guys on where the church is headed - trend lines that we’re seeing in churches.

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Today on the podcast, we’ll wrap our conversation with Brad Zimmerman.

Brad is the Creative Director at Watermark Church in Grand Haven, Michigan.

You also might know Brad as the ProPresenter Tutorial guy. He has done a lot of training videos for Renewed Vision and other things.

We’ll dive in mid-conversation with Brad talking about more innovative ways to take your Livestream up a notch.

If you missed Part One of this series with Brad, feel free to jump back to episode 308 of our show.

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Today on the show, we welcome Brad Zimmerman.

Brad is the Creative Director at Watermark Church in Grand Haven, Michigan.

We’re going to be talking about some innovative ways to Master your Livestream or to take your Livestream to another level.

We’re all now doing a Livestream or Online Church (if you’re not, you’re behind).

If you are, its really time to look at how to enhance it if you haven’t.

Its time to pour more time, energy, staff, money into upping your Online Worship Experience game.

That’s what Brad will be talking to us about this week and next.

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Today on the show, we welcome Grant Norsworthy.

Grant is a Worship Leader, musician, and Christian Music Artist currently living in New Zealand.

Grant was a member of the Paul Colman Trio years ago and also served in the band Sonicflood. Today he is a Worship Leader that has a heart to serve and coach others. He travels the world speaking and coaching worship leaders, bands and musicians through More Than Music Mentor.

If you are a Worship Leader, we’d love to encourage you to check out Grant’s work.

Today we are going to talk about how to create Virtual Choir Videos.

We think we can do both well.

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This week, we welcome our friends Brian Blackmore and Eric Bramlett to a bonus episode of the show.

Brian is the head of Church Production Magazine which has fantastic articles and resources available to church tech and production folks.

Eric is the Creative Arts Lead at Community Christian Church in Illinois and will be a speaker at the Capture Summit August 3-4 in Raleigh, NC. This is a conference for church filmmakers and content creators.

We'll be talking with Brian and Eric about the status of church content creators. And asking questions like:

Brian and Eric are going to give some encouragement for that today.

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Well we are continuing this week with the Making Sunday Happen podcast filmed on location from FILO 2021 Conference in Chicago.

FILO (First In, Last Out) is a ministry for Church Tech Artists who serve the church. Our Twelve:Thirty Media team was blessed to attend and participate in the conference this year.

During our time there we interviewed several folks from the conference and so we are continuing with those interviews this week!

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