Video & TV Production & Distribution Process...

 

Ref:  'Communications Team (Indy)'

Ref:  'Media Team -- Design One For YOUR City

Ref:   Video Links at 'Ask Anything Saturday'

 

Quick little video to inspire you...

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And here's another little video how-to, re lighting.

 

Basic Video Steps from start-to-finish... for our collaborative citywide 'Communications Team'.

 

• Get some training, first.  And practice ahead of your big event.
• Work in pairs, preferably.  Two are often 10 times as effective as one. (Eg. interviewer, and separate audio tends to be a zillion times better than camcorder audio.)
• Plan your shoot.  What's the 'story' or 'big idea' to be conveyed with your video?  How will it portray that big idea?
• Story-board the shots you need.
  • Digital still photos?
  • Digital video pieces?
• Contact your key people ahead of time whom you're going to interview, etc.
• Take everything you need with you... including well-charged batteries, (numbered) tapes, notepad, pens.
• Arrive early.  No, earlier than that, even.  LOL
• Check environment... lighting, electricity, ecoustics.
• Take your shots... judiciously.  Don't shoot more than you're personally willing to edit, index and upload.
• Pencil some notes... about what you've shot.  Or at least talk it into the video either before or after your main shoot...  Names of participants, contact info, context, order of shots, footage-markers if you can.
• Off-load your raw video footage asap!  (Always keep your tape so it can be re-used asap.)
• [We have a mobile external-drive for temporary storage.]
• Save your file into .avi format -- it's pretty universal for all platforms.  Thus anyone could help you EDIT.
• EDIT... perhaps using:
  • MS MovieMaker (Getting Started)  (WIndows Movie Maker Tutorials, Tips, and Articles)
  • or Mac
  • or Adobe Premier
  • or Camtasia (TechSmith) (Camtasia Learning Center)
  • or CamStudio (It's a free OS download).
    • Here's a YouTube CamStudio video tutorial.  Here's a CamStudio ScreenCast tutorial + download link.
• Preliminary Edit & Upload... Chop the footage up into logical segments.  Name the pieces appropriately so that anyone will quickly know what that footage is.  And if you intend to have other people help you edit the video... or use it for other purposes too... then upload to a collaborative site.  [Melanie is setting up an FHL server for media assets.]
• Final Edits... might be done by anyone; some footage might even used in multiple videos.
• Within your edited video... include one or more urls that your viewers go to for more info...
• Upload to YouTube if at all practical.  They become widely-distributable if you do.  [eg. IndyChristian.TV's 'SplashCast' player.]
• Possibly Upload elsewhere to other common video-sites (eg. GodTube. Blip.TV)
• Always tag your videos.  At the very least include key standard-tags... eg. FHLinternational... UBcafe... IndyChristian.  Also include GEO-tags (eg Indy, Indianapolis, Indiana).
• Add to Facebook.
• >>'Share' important videos, on Facebook.<<
• Encourage your Friends to help proliferate important videos... via their social-networks.
• Blog these important videos.
• SplashCast important videos... if you have a SplashCast player.  Example, you could build a 'community tv' for YOUR city or even neighborhood.  See CityReaching.TV .  [I'll try to keep a list there, of all our Communications Team players who start a Splashcast player.  The more we have, the more content we can interchange.  And the more we can proliferate the 'message'.]
• Let's REVIEW the whole process... as we get experience.  What did we learn?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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VIDEO PRODUCTION AS A GROUP PROJECT:

Ellen S. and Melanie R. are working together to investigate various options for utilizing the web for "social network file sharing".

We are looking to secure an online site that we can use as a repository for our video projects in the making.

Our goal is to utilize people with video cameras that can upload to the internet to document the needs of our communities, the possible solutions, organizations and people that are providing Christ-like love and service for the betterment of the community and the spreading of the Good News.

 

Every individual need of every individual is important to Christ, so why wouldn't it be important to me?  So to the person thinks that the "little" thing that they can do won't matter . . . I say "That "little" thing matters "greatly" to the one who you could help with it."  YOU may be the very answer to someone's prayers.  It is a blessing to serve and find out that you were truly the instrument to someone else's happiness though you felt you did nothing out of the ordinary.

 

So, let's document some of the everyday miracles that happen among everyday people every day.  There are events and organizations that lend themselves to premade opportunities to capture "miracles in the making".

 

It could work this way.

1) Account set up at the online file-sharing site. We will determine best place soon. Looking for no/low cost.

2) People who shoot video footage could upload raw footage to the account. Tag video with universal tag for our group retrieval and subject organization.

3) People who can edit video can download a COPY of the footage to cut/paste and edit.

4) Save the video as same name with their code initials before the file abbreviation.

 

For Example:

1) I have the site (NOT REAL ONE YET) StoreHere.net/1234.html

 

2) I upload the raw video "ComCleanup080614) that is useable to the storage site. If I have more than one event recorded on my camera; I separate out the different pieces and title them according to subject and date.  "Tagging" the footage with keywords to make finding the pieces easier. 

WE NEED TO DEVELOP A UNIVERSAL TAG FOR OUR MEDIA GROUP THAT WE ALWAYS USE FOR OUR SHARED FOOTAGE AND EDITING BANK . . . Ideas anyone???

 

THEV = (Through His Eyes Video) because I think the lyrics of this song speaks to our video taking/sharing mission . . . Through His Eyes song by 4Him

MIM = (Miracles in Making)

 

 

3) That evening Melanie notices that there is a new video to work with. So she downloads a COPY of the video and begins to cut and paste to make a short piece for playing before her church's youth group meeting on Wednesday night.

 

4) Once she is done editing, Melanie saves the video as "ComCleanup01MR.wmp" This .wmp is a Windows Media Player file.  However we can save as some other format that we deem necessary like .mov (QuickTime movie), .swf (Flash player), etc.  The type of saving has yet to be determined because it will depend on what limitations we may have on storage and output.