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Here’s a new promo video I did for the 1st International Fellowship Of South Florida. The pastor asked for an under three minute video that would help brand the group and show a little of what they are about.

It’s an example of using whatever resources you have to do a decent job.

I didn’t have a budget, or time set aside, so I worked on it as I had time, and got the cooperation of the church members. The music is a Sony royalty free loop for Acid 7.0 called “5 ‘0clock Blues” which I used without much modification. I edited it in Adobe Premiere CS3, finished in Adobe Encore using a standard corporate menu with a little modification, and output to Adobe Flash and DVD directly from Encore.

http://louddata.com/IFChurchPromo/

I put a few photos up on Facebook from some recent trips just to prove I’m actually working!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2053380&id=1097275189&l=4d9eb94ba2

South Florida International Fellowship

Sometimes, even if your skills are in high demand, things get slow. This summer was slow for me. Thankfully, things are beginning to pick up a little. However, if business is slow, then that may be the perfect time to put yourself out there as a volunteer. The benefits are more exposure for you, and the charity you do it for. It can also develop into a more long-term relationship with financial benefits in the future. Many organizations have advertising budgets and will turn to people they already know when they need help.

I had an opportunity to help out a church group, that I’m a member of, by making a short video to introduce a new series topic that the pastor was going to begin speaking on. It also gave me the opportunity to recruit a film student, who is also a member of our church, to help out! Debora SantaCruz from Full Sail University in Orlando sent me some interviews by email!

Here is the video in another Adobe Flash, created in Encore, micro-site.

I have a link to my Wedding and Events mini-site available to those who would like to see it. I made this, not just to demo my weddings and events production, but also to show an example of how you can generate a nice looking Flash video site using Adobe Encore. Email me if you would like to take a look!

I was in Fortaleza, Brazil this week doing some pro bono consulting work at a school for street children, and a church. They both iterated their belief that multimedia is highly important for the promotion of their work and for fund raising, and also their confusion about how it could actually help them in a measurable way.

That second part is a killer.

I worked for nearly 11 years on-and-off for a large fund raising machine and they could never figure it out. We knew that the multimedia product was helping to bring in money, because we had donors write letters and say so. However, we were not able to come up with a substantive way to measure how much.

I’m going to leave the comments open on this one, so please share your ideas!

Thanks!

- DC