Day 1
Working with Your Senior Pastor
Aimee Farmer, Brad Duplechain, Kellen Coldiron, Ken Wilson
[communicate clearly, keep the vision intact, support and understand your pastor]
How to take what's in your Senior Pastor's brain and get it out in print, web, and services while protecting your team from burn out. Because a 60 sec video doesn't take 60 sec to make, right? Stage Design/ Lighting 101
Jude Horn, Janice Pritchett, Colt Sammons, Lynse Stephens, Gary Gillespie
[set pieces and construction, stage direction, lighting for every scenario]
Create a well-lit stage design using what you have, without keeping your fire marshal on speed dial.
Video Production
Brian Pitre, Matt Garner, Steve Murphy
[field equipment, editing tips/equipment, writing/creating/directing good material]
How to plan for, shoot, edit, and produce videos that matter- while getting a lot of You Tube hits. (see Web Development 101 for an introduction to the internets). Worship 101
Jordan Becnel, Daniel Gonzales, Brandon Shatswell, Thomas Miller
[finding and auditioning talent, musicians, rehearsing & practicing]
Navigate the muddy waters between what you hear coming out of that little church in Australia and what you'd like to sound like on Sunday morning. Series Development 101
Kristen Becnel, Michael Buckingham, Anthony Coppedge, Neil Greathouse
[brainstorming ideas, keeping the vision intact, knowing creative boundaries]
Your pastor wants a 5-week series on greed, and the only rules are: you need it by tomorrow, you can't use any pictures of Gary Busey. The clock is ticking...
Marketing/ Advertising
Joshua Blankenship, Lindsey Ingram, Josh Ratcliffe
[finding your niche, good press releases, mailers/print ads]
"Head On - Apply Directly to the Forehead"- and other things you should never do when marketing your church. Music/ Audio 101
Dave Stagl, Chad Clarke, Matt Monson, Daley Hake
[consoles, microphones, room treatment, musicianship]
Mix audio like a ninja even if all you have is a Mr. Microphone and a Casio Keyboard with demo mode. IMAG
Brian Pitre, Matt Garner, Steve Murphy
[live video do's & dont's, equipment wisdom, training a team]
Do you really need a 30-foot screen with your pastor's face plastered all over it, and how you can make him look really good without going bankrupt? Stage Production
John Bolin, Jason Suel, Gary Gillespie
[training actors, technical aspects of live stage production, rehearsals & practices]
Drama, dance, live performances. You need to be part MacBeth and part MacGruber without looking like the glee club. Branding & Communication
Joshua Blankenship, Lindsey Ingram, Tiffany Barnes, Aimee Farmer
[your brand image, unify your print & web, simplify strategically]
You can't blame someone for stretching your two-inch logo to the size of a roadside billboard if you don't tell them how uncool it is. Raise the standards. Pastors Only
Daniel Gonzales, Michael Buckingham, Brad Duplechain
[knowing the limits of your team, how creative people think, maximize their potential]
So you think you've found your creative guy, but he doesn't speak "pastor". How can you have a decent conversation without needing a translator? Social Networking 101
Guy Walker, Bobby Gruenewald, Terry Storch
[connect with people online, track who's talking, make your church accessible]
All the kids are doing it - Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Twubs, Digg, StumbleUpon, Friend Feed, del.icio.us & a hundred other reasons to avoid myspace like the plague. Balancing Workload & Life
Anne Jackson, Kristin Becnel, Anthony Coppedge, Charlie Loften
[realistic scheduling, track where your spend your time, focusing on what matters]
We both know you shouldn't have a cot and shaving kit set up at the office … but there are still those overnight work sessions that leave you waking up with fuzzy slippers on your teeth, huh? Team Chemistry
Ken Wilson, Brad Duplechain, John Bolin, Aimee Farmer
[create a great work environment, protect their dreams, build leaders who produce results]
Laziness, stress, trust, work ethic, gossip, communication, purpose, and vision (lotta laughs here but you know you need it).
Service Programming
Daniel Gonzales, Josh Ratcliffe, Stephen Proctor
[creating a good service flow, keeping the audience's attention, rehearsals/practices]
It feels like the service will never end and you've still got a big musical number at the end with black lights and the Happy Hands team. Anybody experience this? I see that hand. Yes, I see that hand there in the back. Web Development 101
Bobby Gruenewald, Terry Storch, David Russell
[website temlates, blogging, podcasts]
How can you get your church on the internets (sometimes called the world wide web) without taking a second mortgage on your house? Where to Start
Kellen Coldiron, Lance Young, Tiffany Barnes
[video during services, musical performances, print]
Please keep arms and legs inside the ride until it comes to a complete and final stop. This ride begins with creative arts basics (and that clicking sound up the hill). Day 2Working with Your Senior Pastor (in case you missed the first one...)
Kristin Becnel, Daniel Gonzales, Michael Buckingham, Neil Greathouse
[communicate clearly, keep the vision intact, support and understand your pastor]
How to take what's in your Senior Pastor's brain and get it out in print, web, and services while protecting your team from burn out. Because a 60 sec video doesn't take 60 sec to make, right?
Motion Graphics
Brian Pitre, Matt Garner, Ken Wilson
[worship backgrounds, message intros, pre-service screens]
Make things move & dance in Motion and AE (After Effects … not American Eagle … because people dance in there but it's not Christian music). Social Networking 201
Lynse Stephens, Anne Jackson, Guy Walker, Anthony Coppedge
[combining multiple sources, Facebook connect, tracking conversations]
Spoiler Alert: Friend Feed isn't a soup kitchen. But you probably already knew that, didn't you? Because you're a social maven! Worship 201
Jordan Becnel, David Gonzales, Brandon Shatswell, Thomas Miller
[layering musical instruments, training leaders, planning the right set]
So you're out of your parents’ garage, and you've managed to book a few gigs, how do you tame the talent you have on stage? And, is big hair still in? Lighting/ Stage Design 201
Jude Horn, Janice Pritchett, Steven Proctor, Gary Gillespie
[intelligent lights, stage sets for series, lighting for video]
No, you shouldn't use as much haze as they do at Cirque du Soleil...but man it sure hides those ferns. Series Development 201
Kellen Coldiron, Kristen Becnel, Lance Young
[knowing your audience, ask the right questions, dream with realism]
Congratulations, your "Greed Series" was a hit. Your pastor wants to step it up with a series titled, "Transformers." But you know better, don't you? Music/ Audio 201
David Stagl, Chad Clarke, Matt Monson, Daley Hake
[layering everything, how loud is too loud, gear for the venue]
Things we will not be covering in this lab: how to put a battery in a microphone and which end to talk into. Volunteers
Brandon Shatswell, Kellen Coldiron, Brad Duplechain, Anthony Coppedge, Kristen Becnel, Tiffany Barnes, Charlie Lofton, Neil Greathouse
[training and raising up an amazing team]
A smorgasbord of volunteering info from every angle. Worship, service production, planning, video & audio ... everyone together for one massive lab. Graphics
Joshua Blankenship, Josh Ratcliffe, Tiffany Barnes, Michael Buckingham
[mailers/print ads, logos/continuity, free resources]
Bedazzle your way to better print graphics (we couldn't resist). But that bulletin and mailer are going to glimmer. Team Organization
Aimee Farmer, Ken Wilson, Brad Duplechain
[project management, organizational structure, scheduling for success]
"Plan for the worst, hope for the best" is just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. These tools will help get your team ready for global domination. Visual Worship
Steven Proctor, Daley Hake, Jude Horn, Gary Gillespie, Brad Weston, Neil Greathouse
[worship lighting, projection, motion graphics]
Create such an inviting worship environment that even Michael Bay would be jealous. In other words … make your auditorium full of «Bayness». Web Development 201
Bobby Gruenewald, Terry Storch, David Russell
[programming flash, java, HTML, content management systems, embedding media]
You're out of the template phase and in HTML shark infested waters. Put your big boy pants on for this one.
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