Home for Christmas (series video elements)
- At December 7, 2009
- By ken
- In Christ / creativity / video
It’s the holiday season, and that means a new freshly minted Christmas series for us at NewSpring. After several brainstorms with many heads coming together we collectively landed on the idea of a shot piece for the series packaging.
The aim was for a series that was a little warmer and human, something that really touched on the concept of the invitation. Home is warm, home is inviting, you can always go home. And then to carry the story a little further we opted to build first half of the story into the 5:00 counter that begins the services. (so hey, if you missed it this week get there early next Sunday to watch the entire piece).
This is a first for us, composing a shot story into the series open, then extending the story earlier into the service. My favorite part of the process was watching every person on the production team contribute a hand. That may be one of my greatest joys of the holiday season, media-wise.
SERIES COUNTER
SERIES OPEN
Kyle
These are so good. What camera are you using to shoot these with? Are you working with a DOF adapter? Great job!
ken
Will, our director of photography (willrodes.com/blog) would have more details on this, but I know we used a Canon 5D SLR for the bulk of the shots; switching to a Panasonic 170 when we were short on batteries.
Josh Harwell
I love the concept behind starting the video in the countdown and carrying it over into the service. Great looking piece as well!