Behind the scenes tour of Easter 2018 - Church Production
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2018
- A different type of behind the scenes. Taking you on a tour of how we make Easter happen at Faith Church in Allentown, PA. For all the tech guys, you'll love this one.
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First Time Here?
Thanks for being here. I know your time is valuable, so I'll keep it short. I own a company called 4LC Studios. I do video production (weddings, commercial, and anything else that grabs our attention). This youtube channel and everything I post is about the journey. I love sharing what I'm learning, how I'm growing, and how I'm failing. I hope you'll follow my journey and be a part of the conversation.
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I'm blown away (in a very good way) to learn you are Christians. I can see myself as your Jason, I have a passion for the church and am also a worship leader. Church tech is a huge part of the vision of Crazy Amazing Designs. I want to give others tools they need to serve the church wherever they may be.
That mechanism for the curtain drop is ingenious! The level of innovation is crazy!
One day our church will have all that tech. We have a couple of special programs for our Easter services, one of which is a "Easter Story as Told by Kids" video I produced. Love the stage setup for your service. When curtain dropped, I audibly said "awesome!" Coworkers then looked over to see what I was watching.
HAHAHA. Our tech guy is great, he rigs up some pretty sweet things.
That was an amazing Behind the scenes tour. What an awesome display of tech doing its job. Wow is all I can say.
He’s great at what he does.
Love behind the scenes video keep the good work
Scott, churches in my country (Mexico) just have 1 mic and some speakers and 4 live musicians. im baffled by this video. looool
Love this video. I also help with the tech in church. It's nice to see what other churches do, so we can keep pushing the boundaries with what we have and see what we can achieve in the future. More of this will be awesome.
Awesome. Thanks for the feedback.
Tech, bts, watching the whole thing.
Do more vids like this? 👍👍👍👍👍
EXCELLENT video. Really appreciate the time you guys spent on producing it!
Glad you liked it.
Love Qlab, love Dante, love the ME-1's (though we had a bunch that died mysteriously and needed fixing). Thanks for the video.
Awesome.
... thanks for sharing the production behind the scenes. I'm just amazed how technology could help make productions a little easier and provides more flexibility for your Church and the Team. Strong work!!!
Yes, it’s incredible what you can do now with tech.
WOW! What great explanation of the A/V system you guys use. I had Geek Bumps.
Lol. I love geek bumps.
love this
Good stuff Scott! I love the curtain idea. This will be a busy weekend for us musicians. Playing a good friday service tonight and three on Sunday with a downbeat at 5:30 Sunday morning for our 6:30 sunrise service. I'm loving the GH5 by the way. I'm off to get some B-roll timelapse of the church building. Sunrise is at 6:19am this morning.
Yup, always a busy time for sure. Have a great weekend, enjoy it.
Thanks Scott! Seeing behind the scenes was so interesting. There are systems and equipment that I didn't even know existed. I would love to see some live behind the scenes action if that were possible. Blessings on all you do!
Thanks for chiming in. Will definitely keep that in mind.
The "drop cloth" is called a Kabuki drop. Ive set up thousands for concerts. You guys did an amazing diy version hahaha. Pros use the kabuki drop to hide set change in the middle of the show. you just use two rows of solenoid and a pocket/basket on the back drop. then you can fire the first row and it drops the basket and thus the backdrop drops, everyone does there work then you fire the second row and drop the curtain collect and you're ready to proceed.
Actually the cloth itself is called "scrim" in theatrical parlance. The effect of dropping it and the associated hardware is the kabuki drop. Scrim effects are all the rage in megachurches this year. Those with the budget for it use theatrical sharkstooth scrim, which is the most common type. I vaguely remember lighting the stuff for a high school play once. It produces a novel effect if not over-used. Light it from the front and it's a virtually opaque curtain. Kill the front lights and light behind it, and it almost disappears.
its so casual sounding, like yeah, we have 1 mac just for loop tracks, Another mac just for video, another for so and so. All 40 tracks going into one interface and ya just a sony pro video camera haha. Id love to be in a church like this. So technical :)
Great video I love behind the scenes
Thanks for watching.
It was one of the best video I have ever watched
Jeez. Jason is an asset. In a church setting, his work flow is pretty straight forward but very clutch.
He's the best.
Wow. Love how you guys have got your systems organized. Nicely done!
Church Production Masterclass?
Heck yea lol
Wow - what a thorough walk-through.
My church is trying to get to half this level of attention to detail. We finally hired a dedicated tech guy!
Awesome. That’s a great start. A Tech guy is a huge asset (if he knows what he’s doing haha)
Scott McKenna Let's just say ours is still learning lol
Do more videos like this!! I'm volunteering as the lights operator but I have no idea what I'm doing. Please do a vid for lighting production
Nice Video thanks
Awesome video man! Quick question... What PA system are you using (speakers, amps and processing)?
Loved the video, yep the whole video!
I've got a question, that you've probably heard before:
"When the worship and all the production is so nailed down to when what happens and decided beforehand to the point where it's decided beforehand when the curtain drops, how do you leave room for the Holy Spirit to move in the worship? How do you keep the worship flowing in the spirit?
Love to know what you think.
Thanks for watching. That question isn’t great for TH-cam comments. It’s something everyone wants to ask and all it did is cause arguing. We plan and pray for the sets before we script them out and then we stick to the plan. We have thousands of people coming and going between each service that our timing needs to be accurate and on time or it gets very tricky.
Scott McKenna thanks for your answer! I didn't mean to cause any arguments or heated discussions, I was sincerely interested.
I understand and I didn’t take your comment that way, I just mean it opens up the door for arguments which is not what I’m trying to do. That’s all.
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I really liked the way you figured out how to get the curtain to drop at a certain point, brilliant idea!!!
Yes. He’s very clever.
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Great video! how are you connecting your gopros to serve as live cameras?
Great video! I was wondering is propresenter controlled by that midi program? Meaning does some one have to click to the next slide on every slide for the songs that use propresenter for the lyrics?
For big programs like Christmas, we usually automate everything in ProPresenter, but on a normal Sunday and in this instance, we manually control the slides.
That should get em' saved!
Hmm... Interesting that you’re even running LX from Ableton. Have you guys heard of Qlab? Brilliant little piece of software.
Oop, got five seconds later in the video and saw it haha. Why aren’t you sending midi from that instead?
What kind of speakers and subs do you guys use ??
We just hire in a kabuki drop system.
I would love to know how you do your live streaming. I am in a church in Africa - Kenya. We do live stream but at times we hit hitches that I would love us to overcome. Basic setup will be appreciated. We don't have all these tech yet
That's not my specialty unfortunately, that's all Jason.
Hey Scott, Thanks for behind the scenes of your Easter service this year. Could you please explain to your international viewer what the “imag”, in the “imag screens” you were talking about, stands for?
It’s simply IMAGE MAGNIFICATION. Basically what you see on the stage much larger so that if you’re further back in the church, you can see better. That’s all.
Scott McKenna Thanks Scott. At first I was a little bit confused as you guys talked about the iMac screens in the front and the booth. Weird. But this clarifies it. 👍🏼
What was the name of the song they dropped the curtains to?
Hey Scott great video. Is there a way to contact Jason. I'm a tech director as well and I would love to talk with him about some of his approaches to tech. Thanks again for the great video. Blessings!
What do you guys have for FOH SPEAKERS AND SUBS
Scott, in your Q&A the other day, you mentioned not using OBS. Can you explain the setup? Were you using the Elgato Cam Link or a web cam? The Q&A video has been removed so I cant review it...thanks
Webcam. I have a logitech webcam for when I have my computer docked.
thanks...I have the Logitech C920 HD ...good stuff!
The drop units are pretty cheap on aliexpress. I have 40 of them. Type in Gigertop in the search. Look thru the store. It's the only chinese seller I trust
Hey Scott, I see a lot of screens or projections in the back near the tech booth. So I guess these are for the worship leader (text to sing?) or every person on stage? My main question is: What do you display on these screens or projections in the beginning or after the service? And how do you explain it to people why the projection is in the "wrong side of the room"?
It’s for the team on stage to be able to see lyrics of songs, as well as people on stage to see any notes, etc. no need to explain to anyone, everyone understands what it’s for. None of use music stands so it helps us stay connected and looking forward rather than at stands.
Interesting - I think that a lot of people over here would ask what is it for. Especially if this is new in a church.
Thanks for your answer, Scott.
Why normally you guys have it by the drummer . What’s the reason for that.
He’s the only one sitting and we can hide a stand for laptop easily.
If i may ask a question, how do you transmit the video from the GoPro? And, how are they connected?
Great video btw!
HDMI I believe.
@@scottmckenna Thanks for your reaction. Hdmi has a limited range. Are jou using somekind of extender or something?
I was born Allentown PA so it cool to see what you guys are doing!!! I’m FOH / TECH for Elevation Melbourne Chruch I’m trying to get them to understand how great Dante is so I’m so goes to see you killing it with FOH to IEM to Broadcast and I can push it more I use it for my Daily Job and I feel like I’m push something like a salesman but I love the Allen & Heath FOH just one question you said you were running the ME from A&L and the Behringer X Producer how does that sign-flow work? And y do you do that ? I remember you said EQ & Compression is the Behringer after the ME mix just for EQ & Compression ?
We use the Behringer for Dante signal into it. Then we process all the channels in the Behringer. All EQ, compression, reverbs and things that are designed specifically for our in ear monitors are done through the behringer. The only thing that the ME system is using is levels.
Hey @@scottmckenna , what I/O do they use in stage to take the channels to FOH?
It’s all Allen and Heath iLive. We use Dante to route things around, but the Allen + Heath iLIVE is the i/o
Can you elaborate a bit more on the in ear set up? Trying to understand how the Berhinger x32 rack is feeding 10 IEM monitors...it appears they’d have to be in mono correct? But he mentioned panning...does the Berhinger allow panning the outputs even if it’s mono?
The Behringer is processing the in ear monitors but they are being fed via a DANTE network to Allen and Heath Me Mixers.
Via Me-U with A&E Dante card?
What about the wireless units?
Via Me-U with A&E Dante card?
What about the wireless units?
Via Me-U with A&E Dante card?
What about the wireless units?
Sennheiser g3
Kabuki drop
Awesome man..
Did you work at CCV in AZ?
I didn’t work there, but I lead worship while I was there for a short time before I moved away.
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Ya. I saw on Facebook we have some mutual friends.
I found your channel for wedding videos but realize that this channel is more than that.
:) I am a kids pastor/media/everything you can Amazon’s director at a small church in Mesa Arizona, we have about 120-150 people and watching your channel is just encouraging and so awesome.
Love what you do and content you bring.
Awesome, glad the channel has been helpful.
Scott McKenna First wedding tomorrow!
Awesome. Best of luck to you.
Thanks alot Scott for this video, very enlightening. Can i have Jason's contact details please
Contact him through faithchurchlv.com
kabuki drop
This is where the money for tihing goes in big churches :P joke... Its insane though :) great work
Why do you break down áll the chairs?
They break them down every week because other things happen in the room.
Cool setup, and a good thing to show off. Sad, though, that churches feel they need to put on a "show" to get people in the doors. Personally, I'd never go to such a church.
To each it's own. It's not about putting on a show. It's about doing things as smoothly as possible. Wanting to do things well is not a bad thing. Distractions take people away from what we're actually trying to point them too.
To me, this seems to make the tech guys determining what the musicians can, and cannot do; as a guitar player, not fond of the idea that I would not be able to reach my amp if I was not happy with the sound I was getting. The band would need to have tremendous faith in the sound team, and the sound team would have to be very responsive to the musicians.
We have an outstanding tech team that know what they are doing so our guitar players love it. It’s not for everyone, but our players love the setup.
I think for a church setting it's better for the tech team to have more control than the musicians. In my experience serving on a tech team at my church, in the past we've seen musicians kind of out of touch with what sounds good for the audience. What sounds good to them on stage does not necessarily sound good in the house.
I tend to agree. I would think some kind of compromise could have been reached without going to the expense of buying custom built amps and then telling the guitar players that was their amp, period. Kind of creates a layer of detachment between what the guitar player dials in practicing at home then having to make it work with provided amp when it comes to rehearsal and the services. I think I would be having a hard conversation if someone was not fitting into the program rather than spending a ton of money and forcing everyone playing to use the church mandated amp. The other thing I noticed was that despite spending a lot of money on amps, it did not appear they were using an effects loop that would make all the time based effects really clean and pristine. Kind of a shame to spend all that money but not get an effects loop built in, or not use it if it was in fact available. To each their own.