// December 25th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Parker, Video
To our family and friends. We love you all and thank the Lord for you every day.
Or Watch the Quicktime file “Christmas Card” (You need Quicktime to watch it. Download it if you have problems watching it)
// December 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Life, Video
A few of us at CBC participated in our own official un-official “No-Shave November”, which I am pretty sure that I officially won (un-officially of course). I present as evidence a video that includes my Daily Mugshot pictures along with the shaving video I shot with iStopmotion.
Beard Shave from Kyle Isenhower on Vimeo.
// June 25th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Video
I loved getting a chance to make this video. It is celebrating 2 of the water wells that CBC funded through Living Waters International in Gulu, Uganda. All of the footage was gathered by the Outbound team at CBC. Amazingly a lot of the footage was shot on a Canon SD800 point and shoot camera. I decided to use the old film look to cover up the low resolution and the shakiness of the shots, and to give it a gritty look. The voice on the video is David Mann, the leader of Outbound at CBC, speaking to the CBC staff at our Monday praise and prayer meeting. I loved searching through the long audio clip to find the perfect sound bytes to tell the story. This video will show this coming weekend at church, so you are getting a little sneak peak. Let me know what you think.
Uganda Water Well from Kyle Isenhower on Vimeo.
As a little extra, here is a little glimpse of what the After Effects composition looked like:
// May 7th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Video
They have offically raised the chicken bar. Way to go guys.
// April 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // Video
They say they are not taking reservations right now. I think we will sign up as soon as they are. $3k for 3K. Wow.
// March 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Church, Video
There are many reasons that this so I’m sure. One is because you can get some cool elements from video copilot, which is a really amazing resource that I’d rather be kept a secret. I was just watching the Easter video used as a main element on stage screens for North Point churches over at Motionhouse, and they used lots of ink imagery.
As you can tell from my earlier post, we used the idea of ink drops on a page to represent blood drops. Another element we used in the 10B4 (We like to call it 10 B Fo) was an effect created by dropping ink into water. Steve did a great job of putting it together. He chose fittingly to use “Liquid” by Jars of Clay…going old school to fit the idea of the video perfectly.
Blood Countdown from Steve Crawford on Vimeo.
// March 27th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Church, Creative Chaos, Video
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.
// March 25th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Life, Parker, Photography, Technology, Video
I tried hard to come up with a cool, catchy title, and that was all I could muster. Hopefully the content will make up for the lameness. With Parker on the way, we knew we had to transform one of our extra bedrooms into the baby room, and would consolidate the guest bedroom and office into one room. I, of course, couldn’t do this the normal way, and wanted to do my best to document the transformation of the room.
First, I was a little late getting started. I had moved the guest bed out by the time I decided to start this endeavor, so that was never captured. My first thought was to shoot time lapse video using a video camera. The problem with that is that the work being done on the room was going to take place over quite a long period of time. I also wanted to be able to control when the camera was capturing, so I wouldn’t record tons of dead time. My final solution came in the form of a still camera. Christina and I own 2 cameras. My beloved Canon Digital Rebel XT and our trusty Canon S1IS, the camera we got as a Christmas present the year we got married. We had thought the S1IS had disappeared for over a year, only for it to show up (under the seat of Christina’s car) after we had replaced it. So it had been relegated to be the backup camera, the camera to take to the beach when on vacation, etc… Being a Canon, I was able to install software on my iMac to control it remotely via USB. I was even able to capture the images directly on the computer.
In order to mount the camera, I used a shelf bracket, the head from an old tripod, and some screws from the garage. I wanted maximum room coverage, so I put it in the corner by the door. I also needed continuous power so I wouldn’t have to keep taking it down to change batteries and then guess at the correct replacement of the camera, causing tons of movement in the final video.
After getting the camera up and taking a few pics with the iMac, I realized that I wasn’t going to be happy with the focal length. The shot was not near wide enough. I could only see maybe half of the room. I knew I had an old, cheap video wide angle adapter, so I fished it out of the garage gear stash and worked on a way to attach it to the S1IS. I ended up using the cheapest, easiest, and most universal method to attach it: duct tape.
The biggest problem with this (other than how it looks), is that whenever the camera turns off, it attempts to pull the lens back into the body of the camera. When it can’t do this, it freaks out. I had to untape the wide angle and reboot the camera a couple of times in the setup. The final solution was to always keep the camera on, always keep the USB plugged in, and never turn off the computer. If I broke any of the rules, the setup would be ruined. Once during the renovation the wide angle fell off, so I climbed up on a ladder and retaped it. I can’t really tell in the final video the moment that this happened, which is a good thing. So now, any time that I started working in the room I would set the interval timer shooting mode to shoot every X seconds (15 seconds usually, but sometimes more or less depending on how quick the work I was doing went). I was nearly done with the room when the camera flaked out on me and quit working. Oh well, I’ll post some real pictures of the room with everything else in it later. Here is the final video:
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// February 24th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Video
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This last weekend Robert’s message was about restoration in marriage. He mentioned a while back that one of the illustrations that he used a while back was the image of a cup that was broken and then glued back together, and how the cup means so much more once it is put back together than it was before it was broken. An illustration concept like that got excited about working on a video for the weekend. The imagery is simple but powerful. I pulled the setup inspiration from Strobist and translated it to video.
Here is the setup from my dining room.
EDIT: I just noticed that the video doesn’t have the audio included. Pretty upsetting, because it helps create the emotion. I will update the video tomorrow to include the audio.
UPDATE: The video should have audio now.
// February 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology, Video
I hope this helps. I’ve been really annoyed by the QT DRM issues with After Effects. Enough to make me scream.
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