Here is the sermon intro video for our “Constructing Christmas” series at SSCC. We will play this video to set up the sermon for the next few weeks.

Chris and I tossed around a few ideas for the final look of this series’ graphics before we landed on this one. We were going for the feel of old blue prints but not technical drawings. As with many of our videos, I worked backwards. Chris designed the “series art” which appears at the end of the video. I worked backwards from there to cut everything into Illustrator layers and animate it in After Effects.

I bought John Williams’ “Carol of the Bells (Voices)” on iTunes (off the Home Alone soundtrack one-the-less). I chose that song because it instantly makes me think of Christmas when I hear it. Also, I wanted to communicate the peace and joy of Christmas and also a sense of urgency or hurriedness. I felt like the vocals accomplished all that.

Without further ado…

Constructing Christmas Intro Video from SSCC on Vimeo.