Weekend Recap 12.18.22

December 18, 2022

Here’s a couple observations from today.

IN PLACES 10 TIL

We’re still working on this. Let’s be in places with cameras and equipment on sending signal at 10 til service. One thing we’re still seeing is our team mates grabbing their equipment form the control room at the 10 til mark. Let’s work on this!

Opener of Verses and Choruses

The first shot of every verse, chorus, and bridge NEED to be of the worship leader singing the song. What we are wanting is our viewers to have a connection point with our worship leaders. We also want to eliminate shots where it appears that nothing is happening.

At :22 and 1:00 in this cut, we switched off of the main worship leaders. These are the time where we want to switch to the worship leaders, THEN start cutting around.

New Mobile Camera Zones

Take a peek at the zones for our mobile cameras. There are two different configs for 4 mobile camera setup

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Camera Cuts/shots

Pacing of cuts this week was great. Cam team did a great job on shots this week.

CALL TIME / BE ON TIME

Just a reminder to everyone that call time is 730a. Let’s get back into a habit of being “on time”.

Video director and CG Ops

Just a heads up to Video Directors and CG Ops. Let’s be sure we are referencing the startup guides when you first run get in. Give yourself enough time to get sorted so that we can have the run sheet meeting closer to call time.

VIDEO DIRECTOR GUIDE

CG GUIDE

Weekend Recap 11.20.22

November 23, 2022

Here’s a couple things that came up from James in the team debrief. Let’s keep an eye out for these as we approach the weekend.

Pacing of video cuts should be between 4-6 seconds
Watch for camera roll

Weekend Recap 11.13.22

November 16, 2022

I was not at the Vacaville campus this week, but it looked like we had some powerful services. The footage looked great this weekend. Pacing was great, shots were great, lighting was great. There was some awesome creativity and movement in the shots this weekend.

VIDEO DIRECTING STARTING INTO THE SET

This weekend we had great pacing on the directors cut. One thing to look out for is the order of how we’re cutting into the songs. Ideally, we want to START verses and choruses on the worship leaders. We are light years better than we used to be on this, but this is a small area that we can tighten up to make our cuts that much more intentional and polished.

Desired cuts
:05 Johny Intro
:13 Cut to drums/instruments
:18 Cut back to main worship Leader as verse starts
:23 Cut

Live Cut
:05 Johny Intro
:19 Cut to drums as WL starts verse
:22 Guitars
:26 Johnny

IRIS/ROLL

We’re still being challenged with our “roll” or “level” in shots. We need to keep an eye out for how we’re framing in our movement.

Also, Video Directors/Producers/Cam Ops, we need to be aware of the iris balance between the cameras. See the below shot of of Cam 5 iris level in comparison to the rest of the mobiles, especially looking at the LED screen.

Weekend Recap 11.06.22

November 8, 2022

As always great job to the team. This weekend James was mentioning just how impressed and thankful he is to our team to pull off an excellent production week in and week out despite being in a little town called Vacaville. We do think our team is awesome and love what we get to do.

AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT

I’ve noticed for quite a few weeks, we’ve been mentioning the “roll” or “level” of the mobile cameras. One area of improvement from all of our mobile operators is keep an eye out for how level the shot is in frame. Here are a couple of examples.

ROLL/LEVEL

In this clip (and the next) there is great framing back to back, BUT, we just need to look out for the roll/level of the camera. An easy way to to do this is to look at the LED strips on stage and try to keep those vertical in the view finder.

TRANSITION MOBILE

I’d like to see MORE of these kind of shots during transition or exhorts. Good position from the mobile op, and good awareness on the VD to take this shot.

In this clip there are two things to keep an eye out for.

MOBILES: Watch out for the roll and framing. Try not to be in a position where the speakers body will be blocked by someone’s head.
VD: Be alert and cut off the shot quickly when there is a head or a hand covering the majority of the speaker

MOBILE CAM MOVEMENT

Great movement here from this op, love the movement from the drums to the frontline. If you have not added movements like this to your kit, try practicing this the next time you are on the team.