Deidra Blackmore

3 weeks ago | churchproduction.com | Deidra Blackmore

AJ Layton is the lighting director at Grace Family Church in Tampa, Florida. As part of this Church Production Road Test User Experience, Layton and his team agreed to try out ADJ’s Focus Spot 7Z. The fixture offers 20,000 Lumens of output and beam-shaping features that include CMY+CTO color mixing, animation wheel, rotating gobo wheels, prism options and frost filters. “We got to use it during our weekend services over a couple of weekends as well as our youth service,” Layton explains.

3 weeks ago | churchproduction.com | Deidra Blackmore

Because of lighting, a lot of worship leaders and pastors feel like they have to stand in a very specific spot, on stage. It can make them feel locked down, focused on a spot rather than on their worship or the message. And while lighting-follow systems exist, they can be expensive and take a lot of time to set up.

3 weeks ago | churchproduction.com | Deidra Blackmore

Phil Cooke is a PhD, author, speaker, and longtime production director in Hollywood, broadcast television and the local church. He's passionate about church production leaders figuring out the message they're trying to tell. And in this Church Production Podcast episode, he talks with Joseph Cottle about all of that, alongside some great advice for young and veteran production leaders alike.

1 month ago | churchproduction.com | Deidra Blackmore

At the Longmont campus of Flatirons Community Church in Colorado, the lighting fixtures are at the end of their lifecycle. They don’t zoom and have a limited color wheel of barely 12 colors. So, when campus Lighting Designer and Production Manager Ezekiel Castillo was asked to participate in a Church Production Road Test User Experience for High End Systems Ministar by ETC moving lights, he jumped at it.

1 month ago | churchproduction.com | Deidra Blackmore

“I was a little nervous because my experience with PTZs in the past is that you can just tell it's a PTZ camera, but with these cameras in particular, the quality looked good and we were able to blend it in with our broadcast cameras.” Nick Burt is the director of communications at the Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas. As part of a Church Production Road Test User Experience, he and his team agreed to try out BZBGear’s Adamo 4K PTZ Cameras.