August 2010
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Cover Story
Film and Television: Engaging the New Literature
By Robert Velarde
The average American watches 5 hours of television per day, or 151 hours a month and 1812 hours per year. The latter number, in turn, comes to 75.5 days of television viewing per year (Nielsen Company Report, February 23, 2009). The film industry brings in more than $10 billion dollars a year, and reaches millions more people via DVD, Blu-ray, and various video on demand services available in the home, online, and via mobile devices.
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Editorial
Video Contests!
By Steve Hewitt
Now that 2010 is half over, it is a good time to announce our second annual Christian Video Awards! We will provide more information about rules and such in the next several months, but it is a good time to remind you to get ready to submit or vote on this year's top Christian videos. And, I would love to hear from you if you took part in last year's contest. What categories do you think we should add or subtract? Did you like the voting structure? Were there too many videos to view and vote on? We have thought that we might have a smaller panel of judges narrow down the submissions so that our readers can pick from a shorter list of submissions that pass the initial judges’ review. Drop me an email and let me know what you think!
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Article
Taking Church Media in a New Direction: An interview with Dallas Jenkins
By Robert A. Kramer
Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with Dallas Jenkins of Jenkins Entertainment. Dallas has produced many feature films that have been released theatrically. His films include Hometown Legend, Midnight Clear, and None Go With Me. His most recent film, What If…, is due in theaters on August 20th 2010. What If… tells the story of a successful business executive who gets a second chance at a life he gave up 15 years ago to pursue his fortune in business. In the tradition of It’s a Wonderful Life and The Family Man, What If… is a story of finding your true purpose in life.
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Greg's Toolkit
Salty Editing
By Gregory Fish
"You are the salt of the earth, are you not? When salt loses saltiness, what have you got? Salt cannot ever be salty again. It's thrown on the ground and trampled by men." This is poetry from Kyle Holt's "The Bible in Rhyme". This text, Matthew 5, was the subject of one of my newest videos. I'd like to walk through some of the editing choices I made in this process. But first, let me interject another scripture that comes to mind when I think about salt. Colossians 4:6 says, "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." Could this apply to our editing as well? If the Bible calls us to "salty speech,” then maybe as producers, we should incorporate "salty editing" into our process. What do I mean by this? Though there are many ideas on what Paul meant with the salt metaphor, it is generally accepted that two benefits of salt are preserving and flavoring. Our video productions must be those that preserve the truth of God in an attractive and pleasing way that the masses will comprehend. Visual imagery is the new language of mankind and a powerful way to communicate great truths, or anything really. But to be completely salty, the way we speak (or edit) must be tactful and effective in its quality.
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A Defense of the Arts for Christians
By Anthony Horvath
"He has set eternity in the hearts of men..." So begins chapter three, verse eleven, of the book of Ecclesiastes. I bet everyone sometimes falls into the habit of thinking that the only real things are those things we grasp with our five senses, but I would also wager that we have all experienced the angst and restlessness that shows that our rat race lives cannot provide us all the satisfactions we need. Christianity would offer another interpretation for that unsettled feeling: it is homesickness.
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Article
Iron Man 2 –Wounded Saviors
By Martin Baggs
Sequels are quite often duller than the originals. Being formulaic, they are put together to cash in on the success of their predecessors. They are typically produced to milk the cinematic cash cow. Fortunately, Iron Man 2 does not fit this bill. It is as much fun as Iron Man but without the need to introduce and explain the characters, allowing the viewer to get right into this new story.
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Back to the Basics
By Stewart Redwine
This August onetimeblind and 36 Parables, myself and co-producer John Schimke, shot 10 more mini-movies. As I began the review of footage for editing, it was hard to believe we were able to shoot 10 scripts in two days. We completed 8 pages on the first day and plowed through the remaining 16 pages on day two. The only way we were able to shoot 24 pages in two days was by sticking to the tried and true production practices that have been guiding our industry for the past one hundred years.
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