Video Production

 

If there was ever a way in our time to reach a LARGE audience, and by large I mean literally throughout the world, it's through the element of video. It's also my most valued work at CCBC Mexico.  I film our large events throughout the year including our 200 person weekend event Open House, Orientation week, and Semester Recap. Other videos that are shot through the semester year include, developing our signature theme and design, conducting interviews with visiting missionaries, students/graduates, and teachers. I also record and edit weekly classes for our online school and develop new ways to share through the avenue of video, what God is doing at our college. 

 

Video production is both effective and also very time consuming. For the last 10 years our college has functioned primarily through website alone. In the last 2.5 years, by God's grace, we've been able to develop a "web presence". Churches and communities have alike have informed us of their discovery of CCBC Mexico through video and we've had new students join our camping after learning about who we are and literally seeing what God is doing here. In order to produce a video that is say 4 mins long many factors effect how long the process will be. For instance if you head over to the GALLERY under the MORE tab you will find a list of videos I've made. Our interview videos, were filmed in multiple locations over a period of 2-3 days. Film time is estimated around 8 hours alone. That includes scheduling, talking with the interviewee, scouting locations, driving to locations, the shooting process, and set up of equipment (lighting, microphones, etc.). This does not include the editing process which for one of the 4 min interview videos, took all of 30-40 hours.

 

In case you are unfamiliar with the process of editing allow me to give you some specifics of why this process can be arduous. As you film a video there are variety of random shots, transitions, and camera movements that are required to make video maintain a steady flow and tell a story. Within the process, 60+ video shots and angles would have been required and need to all be watched and assessed of whether it is usable or not. These clips are uploaded onto a program that I use called Adobe Premiere Pro. I then must choose appropriate music to match the flow of a video. Choosing a song that is not copy written and protected by youtube or social media must be investigated. I must go through the each video frame by frame matching music to video to assure a flow. Unique transitions where the camera whips or does something special, is edited through another program called Adobe after effects. Creating a simple 2 second transition, movement, gesture or effect could take 45 mins or more. (Namely that each clip is adjusted pixel per pixel, effects added which include measurements, timing, depth perception, and variety of other ratios) With the interviewee, I do my best to nail a topic and discussion. This could take 30 mins or an hour plus. I then edit the audio to either chronologically or adjust to properly tell story. Audio must be adjusted and assessed for noise and clarity. Each clip used must be white balanced and taken through a color grading process to give the video it's overall cinematic image. Rendering and downloading alone consume much time and I haven't mentioned that all our videos are for a bilingual audience and must be translated and caption added frame by frame. 

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As I mentioned before, make sure to check out some of my work under gallery.