Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Fall 2011 Update

Hope everyone had a great summer!
We have some exciting news for this fall and a few changes too.
First please check the schedule and let me know if there are any problems with your dates. http://www.newhopechurch.ca/docs/schedule.php
Grant and camera
NHC has received a 30k grant to produce a 5 part series on faith and science. A portion of this $$ will go towards a second camera for use in service. My initial thoughts on how this will work is to have the existing recording person run one of the cameras doing the wide and medium shots from a fixed angle. This works well because the Canon can be zoomed from a remote control allowing the recording mixer to remain sitting. This camera would also feed the children's nursery and upstairs areas. The new second camera would be operated in a tight mode, doing head shots and shots with backgrounds from an angle. We will also be doing a number of on site interviews for the science series.
Why do this? Our videos have received 330k views so far this year (415k last year). So far we have received 145 comments (real ones) that ask some good questions. The web site sees over 15,000 visits per month. Data transfer averages just over 50gb per day. I believe we are reaching people and should continue to do so. The second camera will help to up the quality a bit.
Any ideas on what our new camera should be like? Please let me know.

Storage
We have vacated the old storage room and are in the new, same keys as before. We are trying to work out how to load that room but for now just get things in there as tight as possible. We are also working on new storage on stage that would replace the existing understage storage. If you time to help with this please let me know.

Nursery LCD
A new LCD for the nursery is going to be wall mounted. It will be wired in but need to be powered up each Sunday. The old cart will contain the keypad still and nursery sign in materials.

Small Service System
We used the small service system 5 times this summer and have all the kinks worked out. It works best for times when crowds as small and the band is a max of 2 people. The powered speakers have a very different pattern then the EV's. Please take extra time to walk around and make sure you have full coverage.

Sound and bands
The bands have all been reshuffled and new people added, the new list is on the http://www.newhopechurch.ca/docs/schedule.php page.
This fall I would like to standardize our stage monitor layout for a couple of reasons. One is to have consistency from band to band, to make setup faster and to keep the same type of speaker on the same EQ.
Basically this would mean the 3 powered speakers across the front (mix 4,5,6) and 3 EV's across the back. Across the back would be mix 7&8, with on the six person teams mix 8 would be looped for the drums and bass. Please see http://www.newhopechurch.ca/docs/bandlayout.pdf for details, and give me your feedback.

Thanks for all the time you have each put into this it does make a difference.
Keith