Creative Chaos: Written in Blood

I decided to officially weigh in on the creative chaos that los started back on his blog. Here goes.

So I had the task of creating the video for “All for Love” for our Easter service. This year the theme was “Scenes of the Passion”. Not exactly the most knock you out of your seat title, but it gave me plenty of freedom in creating something. In the timeline of the Easter story, this video/song took place as they were taking Jesus off the cross and before he rose again. The thing that I struggled with was using Passion clips again (this is the 3rd video song in a row) to illustrate this, especially when the song is nearly 6 minutes but there is only about 45 seconds of video in the movie where this takes place.

I looked to the lyrics of the song provided to me for inspiration. The chorus is:

All for love
You gave it all for love
With every drop of blood
You gave it all for love

I focused on the idea of drops of blood, and wanted to represent visually blood equaling love. My dad really inspired me (without his knowing it) to use calligraphy. I tried to find someone who was experienced in calligraphy (I wish dad lived in town), but had to settle learning myself from books I had at the house. The most work was in keying out my hand from the “classic color burn” in After Effects. I’m sure there has to be an easier way, but I ended up going frame by frame and cutting my hand out.

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We ran all our Easter videos to click track this year. Having 3 in a row made things really easy when we got to that point of the service. 15 minutes straight of not hunting for camera shots was nice.

Easter Weekend Stats:

4 Services (1 Friday, 1 Saturday, 2 Sunday)
151 New Believers
20,099 people attend all CBC services, including the CBC multisites.