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So let’s watch a video of Rick talking about it!

And if you liked that this is actually mostly just a compilation of the three separate videos which you can see all of here.

CREDITS:
Camera – Neil Greathouse and myself
Editing – Neil Greathouse
Audio Mixing – Matty Huber
Voice Talent – Katy Barber
Special Effects – Myself
And of course the actors and other help from all of the Woman planning crew.

Hopefully you saw the recently released Dirt Mashup Video I posted last week. If not then now is your time not only to see it but to get in on some of that sweet raw footage to make your own.

Dino Rizzo, Randy Bezet, Joe Champion, Greg Surratt, Kellen Coldiron, Kristin Becnel, Daniel Gonzales, John Siebeling, Stovall Weems, Rob Ketterling and Tarik Stewart are among those whose words you can now mangle all in the name of winning a pair of tickets to Dirt!

We are giving you the opportunity to make your own Remix of our Mashup in whatever way your wildest dreams see fit. Because if your wildest dreams contain these esteemed individuals then you are probably in our target market.

There is no format requirement, no rules to follow. Just take this footage, make and upload your remix to somewhere, email a link to info@dirtconference.com, and make our brains explode. (there are some excellent idea suggestions to get you started here)

DirtRemixKit.zip (140.9 MB – all footage)

And feel free to pass this contest along!
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Dirt is a creative approach to showing churches that big ideas and big change don’t always mean big budget. As much as that’s the script we’re supposed to tell people, that’s really what we want to see happen. Everyone on staff here and everyone teaching labs will be there to help you understand what you can do better with what you already have. Nobody is going to tell you that you need a font budget, or you must replace all your Macs with PCs (although it wouldn’t hurt). We just want to inspire the creative MacGyverness to get you where you want to be.

So here’s the latest Dirt Promo featuring a few people you may have heard of…

If you are in creative arts at a church or not, you will want to be here. The talent we have coming is so very top-of-the-line I guarantee whether you’re in video, graphics, live production, music, you will absolutely learn something.

The award was given to me this month mostly because I was an idiot and climbed in a tree covered in poison something during a video shoot to get a shot. It was bad…like wrist to elbow completely covered bad…so I guess they felt the need to make it up to me. That shoot was for a women’s event promo which Neil and I are working on now which I will show you all when we release them.

We have been incredibly busy this month so there are a lot of videos I could show you which is why I have created an awesome Videos page which I will keep updated with our latest endeavors. Of particular note are:

Etheopia Missions Video
Life Group Launch
Website Launch Teaser

And speaking of new website…we have also been building a new website with the help of the amazing Joe Hohman (and by that I mean he’s been building and we’re just sitting back and watching in amazement). So here’s to a full month of videos and another crazy month ahead.

I made it in After Effects over the weekend and some in the van on the way to North Carolina for the ARC All Access Conference. It was a good 13+ hour drive but it was a great trip all around.

The video is a pretty simple idea that looks really sharp. If you’re the AE type and would also like all the project files  just to tinker (minus the end…it was too big) it is linked below. Enjoy!

DirtWording.zip (39.53MB)

So, to make sure everything is good enough for production we put it through about a minute of scrutiny. There’s no fail proof way to make sure everything is 100% but we bounce things off each other when we can either over IM, email, or in person. It always helps a lot to get an outside perspective on anything. I’d like to use the Church Marketing Lab more often but there’s just no time.

How do you check your work?

The $14 Steadycam is a pretty decent solution for anyone without massive dollar signs flooding their annual budget. Although it may be better for use with smaller cameras, we use it with our HDR-FX1 and it is not bad.

Anyone else tried this project?

Our set up is very basic here. We have one PC running Sunday Plus (and yes, it is horrible) connected via long VGA cable to our projector. No video mixer, no second video source. So how do we show a video. Well, there is no smooth way with Sunday Plus because although it does technically have video capability, it’s about as reliable as a Fiat.

So the best we can do is VLC media player. Using the nVidia drivers, it clones the video over to the second screen. No, it’s not pretty, but it works about 95% of the time (still an unacceptable number). So when I press play on this video in about 5 minutes I will be praying it works…