Here is a video that we did a few months ago. I have had a few friends ask for me to put this on the web so they could see the interfaces we did. The sermon series we were in at the time was called “iReach: Changed Lives.” It was kind of a vision casting/clarification time for our church. It was a four week series, week one was “Changed Lives,” week two was “Reach Up,” week three was “Reach In,” and week four was “Reach Out.” It really was a great series, you can check out the messages and more here at the church media page. We are finally starting to get release permission from folks so we can put this stuff on the web. The testimony about the Home Group being a pillar in the time of need is pretty awesome.

In addition to the message of this video, the production was pretty cool too. This video was filmed and edited almost entirely by two high school students. (One of which is the son of the couple in the video.) I helped them set up the cameras and capture the footage. They did all the editing, audio sweetening and most of the color correction. (I didn’t check the color balance on the second camera, oops. It needed more color correction than time allowed for.)The interface at the beginning was created in house. I made an iTunes knockoff look. I redrew the basic layout and a different color scheme in Adobe Illustrator. We then set the order for the 4 week series and the videos in each service and animated the Illustrator file in Adobe After Effects. This helped to create the illusion of a camera zooming in and out on the iReach interface, showing the previous videos and the next one to be played. To top off the project, our worship director, Fred McKinnon, scored the soundtrack for all of the videos we did in this series.

Well, enough talky.Here is the video. Let me know what you think. We were pretty proud of the whole series look once it was finished. I think it really made people evaluate their own roles in God’s plan. The “i-theme” was used in the print materials and on screen as well. We believe it helped them to personalize things, not to mention it is culturally relevant. If for some reason anyone wants it, I can supply the After Effects CS3 and Illustrator CS3 files that we used if you want to do something similar. Just let me know.

-Travis

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I have had trouble with this video playback some, be sure to harass me about it if it plays in fastforward or anything.

Hey folks. At the urging of some coworkers I want to share another video done at SSCC. This is a video played in Rush Hour, our Middle School ministry. We use it each week as kids break into their small groups. The theme for the ministry is based around driving and cars, that is why you have a car bouncing in the video. The final copy of the video runs for the length of the song and is at full resolution.

This was done using Illustrator & After Effects. I used Illustrator to recolor and cut the car into separate parts for animation. Once in After Effects I created the headlights and then animated the driver’s side wheels, headlights and car body to move with different frequencies from the soundtrack. The headlights were created using a plugin called Lux and the motion was animated to sync with the music using a plugin called Soundkeys. Both plugins are from Trapcode. The song is “Love Addict” by Family Force 5. The background and waveform in the video were generated in After Effects as well.

Let me know what you think. Also, if you actually like it and want to use it for your ministry drop me a line. My only request would be that you buy a copy of the Family Force 5 CD for yourself so you have the right to play it.

-Travis

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