I have one hobby that benefits my classmates but harms my grades (or at least my completion rate before due dates): I love capturing sermons, lectures and presentations in video and then learning how to edit during the production process. My latest chance was during Christmas break.
My class was zany enough to have our final exam in our preaching class all in a two-day span. We called it our Festival of Preaching. In two days, we each preached a sermon that was supposed to be under 15 minutes. I’m not mentioning any names, but Vince Amlin one of our classmates preached a 21 minute sermon. These all added up to a day’s worth of good, decent, and astounding sermons.
For the Festival, I setup two Mini-DV camcorders at 45 degree angles to the chancel area in Bond Chapel and then setup my Marantz PMD-660 recorder about 5 feet in front of the preachers to capture both the sermons and the ambient laughter and reactions. I used Final Cut Pro’s awesome Multi-track feature and combined the three to create semi-professional quality DVDs for the whole Festival. Then came the problem: what should I put on the DVDs? My normal sluggish Sharpie handwriting just wouldn’t do. I needed something that made the exterior look at appealing as the interior. Then I figured it out: I used our raw video footage, grabbed screen shots of each of us, and montaged them in Photoshop. Sadly, my color laser printer wasn’t up to the quality I needed, so I had to convert them to black/white.
But that’s not to say I can’t post the DVD labels in color on my blog! Enjoy …
DVD Cover 1:
Clockwise from top-left: Bethany Lowery, Adam Frieberg, Alex Kindred, Beau Underwood, Adriene Zedick, Ben Varnum
DVD Cover 2:
Clockwise from top-left: Jo Preuninger, Erin Bouman, Chiwon David Kwon, Jake Bitner, Cheryl Payne Jackson, Jae Kim
DVD Cover 3:
Clockwise from top-left: Matthew Robinson, Vince Amlin, Jocelyn Wilson, Lindsey Braun, Jon Edgerton
As Rev. Gomes says, sermonettes make Christian-ettes!