 Okay. The recording is on. Thank you everyone for joining this course, PC314 Media and Technology and Ministry. Let's pray and we'll get started. Maybe Aaron, if you could pray. Now we can get started please. Sure. Thank you all for blessing us on a new day. And thank you all for giving us opportunity to learn this specific subject, media and technology, Lord. Lord, as you have called us to be influencers, you channel of blessing to many Lord. Help us all to be excellent in this subject. So Lord, I pray and ask for your strength, your wisdom to cloud each and every one of us to sustain the kingdom. So Lord, bless everyone. Amen. Thank you. Thank you everyone for connecting to the class today. So we have been in this chapter on digital equipment. Basically, we're just kind of getting an exposure to the equipment side of things. So we talked about, we went through a list of the software side that, you know, okay, this is what we use generally for the media work. Then we started talking about the different pieces of equipment. We talked about cameras. Then we talked about the PA system last week. Now just to get an idea so that when you're dealing with people in the church and or so, you know, and you have to make sure that your PA system is good, you'll have some background, some information on what to do and so on. Today, we'll talk about video production. And then after this, we get into live streaming. So what actually happens when you're doing a live stream of an event and so on. Okay, so I'm not going to get into all the details, but enough for us as we engage in doing video productions. Now, of course, these days, many of us record videos on our phones, on our smartphones, and for many purposes, that is enough. And if you just want to record something that's happening or, you know, just remember something. Okay, yeah, you record that on our phones. But when we are talking about ministry work and we are thinking about maybe, you know, recording, let's say it could be anything could be a video announcement, or you want to do a small, short, even 30 second promotion for a seminar you're having or a conference you're doing, or you're planning to do a video recording of daily divorce stones so that you could share with your congregation, or you're doing, you know, the video recording of your Sunday service, or it could be maybe you want to produce short films, you know, maybe five minute short films, which is, you know, very, very good way to communicate to get a message across these days. People enjoy watching meaningful, impactful, short videos. So it could be doing something like that. So, you know, so there are different ways in which video can be used in the ministry. And so for those kind of purposes, we need something more than just our own phone cameras. Certain things, you know, you can use your mobile phone, your smartphone, do a recording of a video and go on. But then if you're looking at recording a Sunday service or things like that, then you definitely need something more. And so the goal here in this part of the digital equipment is just to expose us to, you know, these are the things in the equipment you're using. These are things you need to think about so that, you know, when you get involved in some way doing that, you'll be aware of these things. So I'm going to share the PDF and we will go through some information here. So video production, that's what we're talking about today. So, you know, in the church and the ministry, we could use videos for so many different things. We use it for doing our video announcements. You know, back in time, in the early years, we had somebody come up and make the announcements, so they will have to remember, you know, we'll have to write it down for them, five things you have to announce and so on and so forth. Then we thought, why don't we put it on videos, you know, you can be creative, you can put music, you can add sound and you can, you know, the same announcements can be presented in a very, you know, nice and creative way. So at some point we started doing announcements using video and also since we had many locations, we could make sure that, you know, all the announcements are made across the six locations that these things are played in. Then you could, you know, you could do promotional videos. You could do video reports of, you know, of events or conferences or mission trips. So that's a very useful thing, you know, when we go on mission trips, we get pictures and we record videos there, then we put it in the short video report and we show it to people in the church. It's a great way for them to know, hey, this is what actually happened on the mission trip or what is happening in our Outreach churches and so on. So we could use videos for so many things, you know, you could think about short films, movies, music videos, so many other things. So just some general information here. So when we talk about, you know, video production, this actually happens in three main steps. Right. So if you want to produce a video, you go through these three steps all the time. Right. And of course, the steps will vary depending on how simple or complex a video you're producing. But what are the three steps? First is a pre-production. So in the pre-production, you're planning your strategies, you're thinking about the whole thing. Think about strategy. What are you trying to communicate? To whom you're trying to communicate? What is the message you want to leave? You're talking about the script, meaning what is going to be said. You're thinking about the set, meaning, you know, what is the background, the props and all that, and within which you want to record the video. You're thinking about the cast, who are the people going to be there, recorded. Think about the crew, the people are going to do the audio and video recording and so on. So all of this happens in pre-production. You have to think about all these details. Right. So there's a lot of work that goes into it in the pre-production. And if it's a video that's happening over and over again, then, you know, you can continue using a lot of this thinking that has happened. You can build on it for every successive shoot. So there's pre-production. You've got to plan everything very carefully. Then there is a production. That means this is the actual shooting of the video, scene by scene, you know, so on. So the cast comes in, the crew are on there and all the equipment is there and then you shoot the video. A lot of things that go into shooting the video, you want to make sure everything is, you know, right. That the message is conveyed on your video recording quality is good and so on. You shoot the video. After the video is shot, there's still more work. What is the work? It's called post-production. This is where everything is brought together, you know, the video, the music, syncing the audio and the video. You may need to edit the video, cut out, you know, things that not supposed to be there, add the music, add special effects. There may be other graphics and things that you want to add to the actual video. So that also is a lot of work. So really, if you're talking about even a 30-second video, right, even a 30-second video, a lot of work goes into it, depending on, of course, what you're doing. Now, if you're doing a 30-second promotion video, for example, we want to do, you know, a 30-second promotion for our Bible college, then in the pre-production, here's what we do. Now, here, we're not shooting any real people. We're just bringing together images and so on. So the script has to be written, right? So that means what is the message we want to convey in this 30-second video to promote the Bible college, right? So obviously, like, you know, and where are we going to play this video? Okay, we're going to do this promotion video. See on YouTube and social media, so YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, you know, just 30 seconds, we're making this video available. Now, the thing is this, if you're going to run a promotion on YouTube, this video promotion, people are forced to watch only the first five seconds. After those five seconds, they can skip the video. So even if you put a lot of effort for 30 seconds, they're not going to watch all 30 seconds. It's quite possible after five seconds, that's a skip, right? Now, of course, there are other promotions you can do on YouTube where you force them to watch the entire duration of your video or whatever it is. But generally, if you do a normal YouTube promotion, people are only required to watch five seconds, and that's counted as a view. And they click the after five seconds and skip it. So really, you've got to get your message across the main message you got to get it across within five seconds. So you're going to plan your script to make sure that in the five seconds, you do communicate what you want. Now, you may have seen many ads, YouTube ad videos, promotions where in the first five seconds, you don't know what the video is about. And you just, you tap the script, you go forward. So what has happened? In the five seconds, they failed to communicate who they are, what they are, what they want you to do, et cetera. So it's a waste. So you have to think like that. You have to have a strategy. If I'm going to promote this video on YouTube, I know how that platform works. I know what's the restriction. So I have to, in the first five seconds, get my message across and be convincing enough for them to want to watch the remaining 25 seconds or whatever. So those things you have to, it's part of your pre-production, thinking about your script. So you write your script to make sure within five seconds of your message. Visit apcbiblecollege.org for free Bible courses. Five seconds. So you've got your main message across. That is you've got the website, you are at apcbiblecollege.org. They've heard it. They've seen it on the screen thing. So you've got that message across. Second, you want to know there's free courses or whatever. So it's something that you want to, or whatever you want. They're for Spiritful Bible College or whatever, something. But in that five seconds, you get your message across. And then after that, you think about, you know, what else you want to say. So, and then you want to think, okay, what is the audience reaching? You're reaching a global audience. So you want to show people from different parts of the world because you're reaching out to a global audience. It's not just for one particular city, right? And what else do you want people to know, right? So that's in your script and all that. So all that goes in the pre-production, then you might want to give it to your media team. They will put together the video based on your script and so on. And in this particular example of a promotion video, you may not need to go and shoot anybody. You may use pre-existing video segments and pictures and things like that. You're producing the video. Sometimes you'll have to go and shoot. You have people acting, you're cast, they're doing certain things and you have to record. Then after that, they have to work on it, put everything together. Then you kind of, you know, you go over it to review it and so on. So three steps, right? Pre-production, production, post-production. And the person editing it will put all this together. Now, one thing we have to keep in mind is that when it comes to video production, there are always, you know, constantly there are new devices that are coming out, always getting better, better resolution, better this and better that. So it's constantly improving. And also there are new video formats that are coming out, right? And new resolutions. So 4K, 8K, higher resolution, you know, higher quality videos. So just that you can, you know, you don't yourself have to worry about it. You have to let the media team handle that part, you know. But just be mindful that there's things that are changing constantly in this space. Now, as far as the equipment is concerned, you know, how would you go about it? And I just want to kind of talk about the different parts of the equipment. But I'll just share with you what we do at ABC. You know, at least for many years from the time we started, we didn't buy our equipment, you know, because these things are very expensive, right? These cameras and so on. So for a long time we just rented it, right? And even now we still do. Like we may own maybe one or, you know, just one or two cameras, but every Sunday we rent. We just, you know, we have a vendor with, okay, the man will come with the camera, with the tripod, with the cameraman is there. And they do the recording for us, you know, and we pay them for it. So one is it works out well for us because we don't have to pay huge amounts to buy the cameras. And, you know, if a new camera comes out, it is a responsibility to buy it and bring it. We are not, maintenance is not ours. Everything, you know, they just come and record for those, you know, a couple of hours on Sunday or whatever we're doing. So it's fine if you, if you have the money to buy. It's, you can find out what's best for what you're trying to use it for. But I would just suggest, you know, just rent it or whatever event you want to, you know, record and so on. And the advantages, you know, like I said, you don't have to worry about maintenance. You don't have to worry about upgrades or different lens or whatever. All those things they take care of. You just rent it, you just pay for them to come and shoot and record for you. But of course you need the right camera. And then, not only do we have cameras that are fixed on tripods, but you also need portable cameras, typically the GoPro. So for example, we use the GoPro, we attach a GoPro next to where the drummer is sitting. So in our Sunday service, right? So you're actually having multiple feeds that are coming in from different cameras. You've got cameras in the Sunday service. You've got multiple cameras, these big cameras on tripods from different angles. Then you've also got these portable cameras that are stuck in certain places. These are small cameras that are fixed, wherever, where there's a lot of moving. You know, for example, like I said, the drummer, so that you can show the drummer also as part of the service and it gives it a good feel. So we use a small GoPro placed near where the drummer is and every now and then we show him. So that's one way of showing, you know, using portable cameras or if the person is themselves, they are moving and you want to see something happening with them. You'd use something like a GoPro. Of course you have a tripod as part of the equipment. Then there are external microphones that are needed. So you can use mics with a windshield like this that'll pick up the sound or if it's for a speak speaking, then of course you can use wireless mics. And like we said in last week, the sound of course when it's coming from the worship involved gets mixed in the mixer and then there's output that goes for the video feed. There's audio recording and also for the live stream. There's an output that goes. So, or if you're just recording a single person speaking, you may use a single mic, a wireless mic or a mic with a windshield that's positioned, held somewhere in place. Right. Then the next part of your video production is the lighting and reflector kit. So again, all of this you can hire. So again, we for a long time, we never bought these things. We just hired them. And now, so you have lighting, they come up with these stands and they're different lighting you, you will, you have the halogen lighting or you have the LED lighting where you can control, you know, the brightness or the warmth that comes from the LEDs. So you can control it. And again, you hire these things. You don't have to buy them. And what is interesting is this green screen, they call it the chroma. If you use a green screen, you don't have to worry about the background. You know, so during while that they're doing video editing, they will just replace the green screen with any kind of background, like, you know, you could put a background like a living room. Or, you know, you can put a outdoor background, maybe out in the jungle or on the beach or whatever you can read whatever is green gets replaced by something that you want like an image. So the advantage of this is you don't have to worry about the set. That means you don't have to worry about where I'm going to shoot the decor. You know, I need this. I need that it is sometimes it's kind of expensive, or you may not find a suitable place. So what you do is you just shoot with a completely green background and everything that's green is replaced by an image graphic. So, you know, if somebody is standing here or people are sitting here, it's, you know, you could put whatever appropriate background it is. Of course, lighting is very important. And all this thing you you can hire for your shoot, right, and the people who are doing the shoot, they will take care of all the adjusting the light, the brightness and so on, while they are doing it. And just be aware that there are LEDs, LED lighting as well that's available today. And there's what they call as a reflective kit. So basically, it's this big round reflecting surface. They usually see them carrying it in black bags, they unzip the bag and and this thing just reflects light, they reflect light on the subject or in how are the lighting is needed to provide proper lighting. So this is also something that you can just hire you don't don't know what I'm saying what I want to say is you don't have to waste. Don't have to spend money to buy any of these things just hire them for the day of your shoot for, you know, for how many hours you wanted to hire hired it for that and you're done. It's all good. You don't have to worry about renting these things. I mean, they're purchasing these things. The other thing, some other things that you would need is it's called the game ball, which is for for a for a camera that you're holding on hands, or you're moving. So some cameras, you put them on a tripod, some cameras people will be moving around. And so the game ball hugs them stabilize, make sure that the camera is held at the right angle or properly. Software for editing that we have already mentioned earlier, hardware, I'll just mention some things you need to keep in mind for a hardware for computer. So these things. Again, in the early days, the editing and the hardware software, it was rented. We didn't buy it. We just gave somebody outside to edit everything for us and give it to us so we didn't spend money on it in the early days. Only later on, we bought our own computer for video editing and software and people to do it. People would be hired or employed by the church to do it. But in the early days, everything was rented. We just paid people what they for the work they did to give us the video. Other things you would have to think about is captions on your video. So sometimes, of course, you can have transcription that means the voice to text translation would take. Or that's the closed captions will show it or you just live text on the video. You think about that I need to show text and sometimes this has to be done while you're shooting the video. So, for example, during a Sunday sermons, while the sermon is being preached, you will find the scripture was coming up, or you'll find, you know, key points coming up. You can do it in post production, but just to make things easier. If you do it while it's happening, you have your captions, all of that coming up at the right time in sync with the video, the voice and the caption so they're all in sync. It can be done in under post editing, and sometimes that's done. But in a live service, you need to think about that text that comes, you know, so you pre plan that text. So it's part of your pre production work. You know, all of these, these are the scripture text that should come up or these are the points that should come up. And we will talk tomorrow, I think, when we talk about live streaming in how that is done, but that comes up on the video. Other things you need is memory cards because these videos, of course, they take a lot of space. So you need to make sure you have a lot of memory cards. If you're doing live streaming, you need capture, you need capture cards that go from camera to computer. So then from camera goes ultimately goes, it goes out to your computer and out to, you know, the live stream. You need battery. I'm in a plug to, if you want to plug the camera into the power source as a backup. So basically, these are the things that you would need for your video production, right? If you're going to shoot a video, these are things. So let's quickly run through it again. One or more cameras, if it's a large event, a stage, so on, you'll need multiple cameras. Sometimes you'll have cameras on crane, so you'll have a crane that moves around, pans the audience or pans the stage with the camera attached to it. So those things, portable cameras, if there's a lot of action happening and you want to position a camera in a very, you know, a place where a person can't go and shoot, then you'll use these portable cameras, tripod, mics, lighting, reflective kit. So this is your lighting kit, your background green screen, if you don't have a, they want to use a set, lighting, LED lighting, reflective kit. Other things, the gimbal to stabilize the camera, if it's not on tripod, editing, hardware and software. Take up the captions, you want to come up on your video, memory cards to store all the files, the raw files, capture cards if you're going light streaming to connect the camera straight to the computer and power in enough battery or should be able to plug it into power source. Okay. Then I've just mentioned a little bit here on the computer specifications. So if you're planning to buy a computer now, like I mentioned earlier, in the initial days, we didn't buy, you know, we just let somebody do it outside for us, they took it and edited it. So we didn't have to buy a computer, because this hardware is expensive, right? But just to let you know if you're planning to buy a computer for video editing, you need to look at a higher end, slightly a computer for a normal user, right? Because you're dealing with very large and you need a lot of processing power. So the processors have to be more than just for regular users. A lot of memory, a lot of hard drive space, a lot of RAM and hard disk space. You also need good graphic cards and preferably a large screen so that person doing the editing, you know, can work on a big screen. These are basic things that I think about if you're planning to buy a computer, ideally you want a RAM, the memory should be around 32 GB and or more, the better they can open up their files and so on. For the processor, ideally you want something i7 or i9, so you want a higher end or higher end processor and more number of processors, four or more processor cores. Storage, that is the hard disk, of course you need a good SSD, that is, they are fast and as much as much space as you can afford. So usually they go into terabytes, you know, so one TV and so on. So you need more. This is the minimum, but you need higher end. You need a computer with a good graphics card, so that's important. You ask that, what is the graphic card and make sure it's there. Of course, good operating system, a large screen, of course, and a connection to quickly copy your file or your Thunderbolt port to quickly copy the videos off of your wherever stored. So typically you would end up on memory cards that come from the cameras and then you'd have to connect them and load it up into your copy it into your computer, so you need a good port to do that. So these are just general things to look out for if you're planning to buy a computer specifically for video editing. The normal computer that, you know, that we use for day-to-day work will not help. It may be okay if you're doing like a short 30 second video, but if you're planning to edit, you know, a five minute video or anything bigger, it will become very slow and so you need to have a good computer, right? So in essence, this is what we need from equipment side for video production. And with this, you know, you could get started and produce videos. I would encourage you to think about it. Think about producing videos. It's a good, powerful way to communicate a message or to communicate to people. These days, people like to hear and see and get a feel of what's happening. Okay, so I will pause here for today. Tomorrow we're going to get into live streaming. That means this whole thing is going to happen live. That means you're not doing any post-production. Okay, you do your pre-production. You're planning everything. Production is happening and it's just two hours of a sermon or a conference or whatever. And you're not editing afterwards. It goes live to the audience. And so, sorry, so what actually goes in? How is that configured? I'll share that with us tomorrow. Okay. So any questions on video production? You know, as far as maybe you've tried something or you have any questions on this? Anybody? You all good? Okay. Okay, so yeah, so we'll pick this up tomorrow. We will talk about live streaming tomorrow and we will go forward. Okay, let's close in prayer. Anybody wants to take a moment? Please, you could just pray and then we will wrap up the class. Thomas, could you pray with us? Yes. Father and Jesus, thank you for this wonderful time as we're learning the media equipments and all. Thank you, Dad, everything for your kingdom to reach many souls. Thank you for the coming days. Help us to utilize this knowledge to do the things for the better video things and all. Thank you, Father, as we're going to learn the live stream. Help us to invest our time and learn for the better things. We thank you. We praise you. We love you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good afternoon. God bless. Bye now. Thank you, Pastor.