January 2010
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Cover Story
Christian Video Award Winners!
By Steve Hewitt
Wow, for our first ever 2009 Christian Video Awards contest, we had a great response. I personally watched each and every submitted video, and I was inspired and impressed with the submissions! We learned a lot from our first attempt, and I can't wait until we announce the 2010 Christian Video Awards. We have already started a list of improvements, new categories, etc., that we plan to include in our next contest! And, while the first place winners will get to split the $2,000 prize money, we will be working throughout the year to have even more prize money and awards for next year!
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Editorial
Thanks to all of the participants in the 2009 Christian Video Awards…
By Steve Hewitt
We want to thank everyone that participated in the 2009 Christian Video Awards, and hope that you will take some time to click on all of the winning links found in this month’s issue of Christian Video Magazine. We hope that one or more of the videos will inspire you to get busy and start working on a submission for the 2010 Christian Video Awards.
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Article
EFCA: Moving Europe Pictures
By Troy Gronseth
Europe, often called the Dark Continent, reveals this fact about its spiritual climate: an estimated two percent of Europe’s 800 million residents are evangelical Christians. The Church there has been in serious decline for years. The conventional methods of ‘doing church’ have not worked. It’s into this spiritually dark culture that the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) has forged; praying God multiplies the efforts of believers to bring the light of Christ by building healthy churches through intentional relationships. And it is to this place the EFCA is sending a team of video producers to help translate this hope into moving pictures. In April 2010, the EFCA will send its inaugural team to produce four European city video projects known across the movement as Moving Europe Pictures.
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Article
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
By Stewart Redwine
My senior year of high school I shot and directed my first short film, Tribes: a post-apocalyptic tale concerning two warring factions of teenagers. The film contained some inspired camera work and a great story, but the audio was awful. When I reviewed the footage I could barely hear the actor’s voices over the acoustic apocalypse created by wind, the metallic roof of a key barn location, and thrashing tree limbs. Just last month I watched Sound for Film and Television, by Berry Green and David Jimmerson with Matt Gettemeier (http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Film-Television-Barry-Green/dp/B00194G1KY), and had it been available ten years ago Tribes might have been the tour-de-force I was hoping for... or at least watchable. I encourage you to pick up a copy of Sound for Film and Television today and you can learn how to record good audio from the experts. Now, instead of spending this article regurgitating what I learned from Sound for Film and Television, I’ll share with you the unexpected spiritual lessons I discovered while learning how to record good production audio.
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Article
Media Ministry in a Missional World
By Durand Robinson
I've been involved in ministry nearly all my life, mostly of it in Europe. I spent a lot of that time using my creative abilities (writing, music, media production) trying to make "church" attractive enough for people to want to come in, with the hope of introducing them to Jesus while they're there, and then help them begin a growing relationship with him. I still hope the same thing for people I know in my current community that insist on living life apart from Jesus. I've come to believe that the church needs to focus more on going into the world than trying to convince the world to come to us. Living transformed lives in the midst of lives yet to know the transforming power of Jesus is the encompassing passion He's placed on my life.
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Article
Small-Screen Media on the Big Screen
By Jay M. Delp
Finding the right media for our ministries is certainly a challenge most of us face almost every week. What can prove to be an even greater challenge on our path to media-in-ministry nirvana is to move this media from where it currently resides (on a DVD, CDRom, digital camera, DVR, iPod, cell phone, web site, etc.) to it’s “final destination (a.k.a. its intended display device). The ability to take any video/media from anywhere and move it to anywhere else (legally of course) is vital to effectively and efficiently preparing and presenting media-rich ministry messages, worship services, lessons and presentations.
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Article
Doubt
By Martin Baggs
"Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone." Father Flyn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) speaks these words in a sermon to his flock in the Bronx at the very start of Doubt. In doing so he sets up the extremes that the movie will explore: doubt and certainty. Little does he know he is really preaching to himself.
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Making Ministry Happen: Churches use Web Videos to Teach and to Reach
By Jason Otis
If you’ve been in church life for awhile, you might remember “missionary slide shows” of days gone by. That’s when missionaries came in from the field, set up a slide carousel in a church’s fellowship hall and clicked their way through the images of their work for the Lord.
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Article
The Pressure of the Real World set in a College Environment at Covenant Productions
By Dave Melton
At Anderson University in central Indiana, the department of communication and theatre arts has been preparing students, especially in the audio/video/cinema production area, for careers with a combination of classroom hours, studio work and on-the-job experience. AU students have gone on to graduate schools such as New York University, Regent University and the University of Florida, while others have continued on to careers with the Lilly Children’s Theatre and Disney Studios. The driving force behind the success of these students has been Covenant Productions—an award-winning video production company located on the AU campus.
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Article
Reflections on Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
By Mark Carroll
I detest math. Always have. When the first pocket calculators came out in the 1970’s I was the first in line. Sure, I can appreciate its usefulness, see its perfect rhythm and integral DNA for the universe to operate correctly – understanding Elyon’s precise and mathematically perfect rules used as the essential tool in many fields including natural science, engineering, medicine, music, architecture, astronomy, etc. – But it was never all that exciting to me. I stopped being ––able to help my kids with their private school math homework in about the sixth grade. They have mastered it and continue to excel in the field, so God bless them and others like them. Algebra. Geometry. Trigonometry. Matrix Theory (okay, that sounds kind of exciting). Calculus. Fortran. No, thanks – give me history instead.
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Producing on Public Access Television
By Judy Brookhart
For years, a friend and I delighted in reading the Bible together. We poured ourselves cups of coffee, turned to a book and chapter, and jumped in. We were amazed at the living nature of God’s Word, for He always spoke to us with His distinct voice, meeting us at our point of need, and revealing Himself in unique ways. Often we went off in different directions to do research, and our pile of reference books mounted - dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, historical narratives. Over the years, the pleasure and the learning grew. We realized that our personal spiritual and biblical growth was directly connected with the sharing nature of our study.
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Greg's Toolkit
Two in One
By Gregory Fish
Greg: OK. Here's the scoop. For this month's toolkit, I've got a two in one deal. I'm going to share a brief little tip and provide you with another tool, and then I'm going to turn things over to a friend who is going to share some of his insight with you.
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Visual Story: The Third Wave
By Clyde Taber
The dust settled, most of the crowd now dispersed. The weathered man leaned in asking the pastor with sadness in his voice “Does your God love widows?” “Yes, he loves widows,” replied the pastor. “Does Your God love orphans?” he asked. “Yes, he loves orphans as well.” The man shifted his weight to his cane, keeping his eyes fixed on the pastor, “Among our many gods, we do not have one like this; I must know this God of yours.”
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