Worship Confessional 28
These things keep getting more and more complicated as the weeks go on.
New to the confessionals are…
1. Clips of the songs filmed on Sunday after I discuss how great/bad they went.
2. Bumper videos my amazing video team edits and puts together to bridge the worship(music) and the message.
So enjoy the new intricacies.
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Los
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RAIN IT DOWN
I’d like to know what the other worship leaders think of things other than our set lists at Sandals.
I’ll be real blunt and say the center screen that always has a cool graphic on it that continues to move (stars, blobs appearing and then going away) from the beginning of service through the message tends to be distracting.
We also seam to like a dark stage. As pointed out in your video today Los. We can’t see your backup singers. We have lots of lights that like to flick on and off frequently, why not keep them at full?
So to all your worship leaders…DO you do the same things for “mood” or do you do it different.
why do you want to look at the back up singers???
A few things.
If you look at the history of the comments left by 10-9, you are definitely not a fan of the direction the music and look our services are going. And that is fine. Comments including…”rock concert”, “fist pumping” seem to point out that you don’t like the atmosphere we are trying to achieve at Sandals.
Although NONE of those opinions are wrong, they are however opposite from where we are going. At least for now.
I honestly believe that lighting has as powerful an effect as the music does. I also believe that jumping and pumping my fists in pure joy while I play air guitar is nothing more than an overflow of my heart. So I do it.
So. After my thesis…
1. The graphic is distracting to some. Point taken.
2. Lighting will NEVER be all full. That would be like asking our sound guys to just turn up all the instruments and walk away. Ugliness.
3. Hang on to your shorts as we have “intelligent lighting” on the way. Yes. That means they will move.
I am though, GLAD I have people like 10-9 in my life. If we continue to make decisions with our eyes shut and ears plugged then we are not doing our jobs as Creatives in the church.
So this is what needs to happen when confronted with questions such as these from 10-9, who is a valuable member of my church…
1. Tomorrow I will look at our center screen graphic again and probably tone down the ink spots. You are probably right.
2. I will also watch the service again and (knowing that the camera lies) try and make some constructive critiques of our lighting. Funny thing is…at production team meeting this week I specifically said this…”Hey Isaac. I have noticed that we have been loving the dark vibe lately. Let’s try to lighten up the stage some.” So please 10-9. Get out of my head.
Great comments. Great discussion. Even if it’s just me and you bro.
See you Sunday.
Los
I realized what it is Los. I’m not against the loud, dark/light, many or few.
Having just watched “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBBkQKofA4″ (
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Hillsong, Praise in the Highest. I think I know why I post so many, “why do you do it that way” notes on your blog.
When I go to a concert to see Hillsong, Casting Crown, Jason Morant or others, I enjoy listening and I tend to feel that if people participate (Sing) it’s taking away from their concert. Not taking away from worship or my enjoyment though. At church I want people to participate and if its concert-tish I wouldn’t want someone to not participate. The whole group participation is what I enjoy most about our TENT worship times. (Show a video of that!)
So humbly I really wanted to know what your worship leaders who read your blog think. Its not up to me what you do on stage. Isaac, Kawalski, You, Rob, blah blah blah do great jobs (that is why you all have business cards). I was just curious if the movement in worship was a darkened room or glaring fluorescents?
Having just watched in person “Big Daddy Weave,” I enjoy the smart lighting. And yes, you do crack me up with the fists in the air. That is why I’m not late to worship or leave before your last set of songs.
P.S. Dont know what happened above
Actually. The tent is a good point. It is one of my favorite times of the year. Because we strip down all the “attempts” at trying to get people to connect and simply leave it up to them. It is a good time
Los
I’ll chime in re: dark, bright, etc.
Personally… from a worship leading perspective (onstage, that is)… I tend to like things a little on the darker side in the room for a few reasons, in no particular order:
1) Stage lights are hot. French-fry action onstage. Lame.
2) Big rooms, when all lit up, feel like big empty barns to me. Tons of light seems to make the room feel much bigger, and you see all the “empty” space. Makes it feel less intimate.
3) Fluorescents remind me of being at work. I don’t want to feel that way at church.
However… one tweak on this whole thing… one of the things I tried to do consistently, but didn’t have the gear to really do properly, was use lighting (colors, etc, not fluorescents) around the whole room – not just the stage.
The idea was to make the entire ROOM “feel” like the stage, in an effort to take the wall down between the stage and the seats, and put us all together “onstage” (so to speak) presenting our offering of worship.
So, we’d splash color up the side and back walls of the auditorium, and really try to draw the peeps in with us.
Just a thought…
I should clarify since that sounds like I’m saying “don’t light the room up”, then saying “i like to light the room up!”
Turning on the “house lights” (usually the lame fluorescent variety) makes it feel like a big, empty barn, or office.
Keeping them off and splashing some color around the room seemed to help put us all on the same page.
out
good one this week…I do a worship confessional everyweek, but man I ve got to get a video camera
Video? Nice excuse to use my macbook. Here we go.
Video Worship Confessional #1
Hey, I just wanted to get another confessional on your radar. I got another pastor at our church to start doing a speaking confessional and he posted his first one today. check it out here at his blog or here at mine.