Kicked the week off big with the performance of a Mutemath song called, “spotlight.” Mack killed it at our providence campus. Take a look at these pics. Remember, if you want something you see on our stage, then when we are done with it, you can have it!
Photos by Sean Lyon.
Hello! We’re back after a nice vacation! Eight days of phone being dead relaxing! I’m about to start mixing the audio from Christmas Eve. Once the tracks are mixed I’ll be posting some more video of the service online. Here are a few things to look at from the stage design.
First off… We have some incredible photographers! The pictures below are taken by Sean Lyon and Cheyenne Schultz. Sean leads our photography team. Check out their sites to see more about what they do.
God did some amazing things on Christmas Eve. There were over 6000 people in attendance and over 400 salvations! I was blown away by how the night turned out. God is Good.
Here are some insights on the Christmas Eve stage design. There were several considrations… I wanted depth between Pastor Steven/Worship Leaders and the background so we used a scrim behind the band that was about 25ft behind the last piece of lightlight truss you see in these pictures. The scrim was lite with about 30 COLORado 3’s all in line. So that’s the background…
Then we had 40 movers in all. 12 were flown above the stage and 28 were placed on the lighting truss and ground. Zach from Audio Ethics came up with the lighting design for the event.
We had three screens flown over stage. (2) 16ft x 9ft screens on either side of a 24ft center screen. In addition to the screens we had 6 plasmas on stage that expanded the stage out around the bowl of the stage.
The guys from Audio Ethics were great to work with. Check them out if you have any production needs.
All this may be boring but for those of you who wanted to know what all was on stage… there you go! Enjoy the pictures.
Due to popular request on sunday. Here is the Yule-Tithe Cheer video from yesterday. Enjoy.
-wes
My wife loves national geographic. We watched hours and hours of PLANET EARTH (a documentary about life on earth shot by national geographic) when it came out. Amazing footage! Now I’m not one to normally name drop, but I just Met Jared Hogan! The creative team got to eat lunch with him on Tuesday! We often look for people who have achieved amazing things in order to pick their brain about how they have gotten where they are and where it all began!
Did you know that the filming of National Geographic’s Plant Earth was in production for 5 years, shot over 2,000 days in the field, in 200 locations and all in High Definition! If you haven’t watched it check it out!
Oops… Jared has nothing to do with National Geographic, I just realized that i was telling you too different stories at the same time. Sorry about that. Anyways… lunch with Jared was nice.
We are in the middle of our series called Do You Hear. This series has been strong. This week we had a great time of worship that was really intimate. Below is a clip of Mack singing Go Tell It On The Mountain. The version we did is by Lee McDerment from Newspring in Anderson, SC. I can’t wait to see what God does this week to close out this series.
On a different note. I’m really excited about our Christmas Eve service Uptown on the 24th. Our service times are 3:00pm, 5:00pm, and 7:00pm. This will be a christmas eve like none other you’ve experienced. Of course we are doing it Elevation Style. We get to celebrate as a church together to close out what God has done this year and in anticipation for what is yet to come. Pastor Furtick says it best, “The best is yet to come!”
Check out this video from this week. You can see this and others here.
We began our new series called “Do You Hear” this week. Everything was real smooth. The series teaser is in the highlight video player. We produced this video about life change. Here is a clip from the video at our Butler Campus. The video is from a wideshot camera so the quality is donkey and the audio is no bueno. But… thought you might like to see how we use video elements in our services. Enjoy.
This week went really smooth. Everyone seemed to get sick this weekend, but everything worked out great. God is awesome. I don’t want to ever forget the priveledge we have to worship Him freely every week. Brett Younker and Casey Darnell were in to Lead this week. Here are some worship teases from this week. The first is of Casey and the Second is of Brett. The guys did great. Casey led at Uptown and Brett led at Providence. However I had both of them on stage for the 1 O’Clock service. Enjoy. You can watch some other videos here.
I’ve seen glimpses of the humpday video for tomorrow, and it’s epic. Best one yet. Make sure to check it out tomorrow!
I’ll give you a tid bit: there’s hairy snail-like turkeys.
-Guest Blog, Caleb Loffer