[Magdalen] Streaming Services

Thu Apr 16 23:52:32 UTC 2020

Wow, Susie! You’re quite the liturgical tech wiz. Kudos.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:48 PM Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm using a program - HD Movie Maker Pro.  There's a free version, but I
> paid the $10 for the "Pro" version - I figured my learning curve was going
> to challenge me enough that I wanted all the options I might want already
> available, instead of finding myself frustrated along the way.  I was
> feeling frustrated enough about other things!
>
> I make short videos with it of each part of the service as I get things in
> hand - such as when someone sends me their recording of themself reading
> one of the lessons.  I tend to use a static picture for background for the
> audio (you can make the picture last as many seconds as the audio file is
> long) and place the text in as captions (that's the slow part - matching
> the amount of text I can put up with the audio, and having caption and
> audio move to the next paragraph/sentence/prayer petition at the same
> time).  Then there are other short videos - such as for the sermon, or for
> the music.  The organist goes in once a week and records video of the
> pieces I ask for.  He sets him phone on top of the organ, looking away from
> himself, but it gets good audio.
>
> Once I have all the parts of a service in hand, the program makes it very
> easy to load one in after the other, and make one long video of it.  Even
> with rolling "credits" at the end!  (Name of church and participants).
>
> For most I had been using free stock pictures from pexels.com  - they have
> a wide variety of free, good, photos - as background for audio, but
> yesterday I went looking around our church building for our own spaces that
> could work.  Such as - our reredos is hand carved by a former rector in the
> 1870s, and one of the angels on the top has hands folded in prayer.  I was
> able to get a picture of the angel and a lot of the blank wall next to him
> that I'll use as background for the text of the prayers of the people this
> Sunday.  The people loved seeing the pictures of the Easter flowers in our
> church from last year, that I used in this year's video.  But the pictures
> behind text need to be pretty plain - not a lot of image that can interfere
> with reading the text.  The parish has liked the recorded with text on
> screen much better than the live stream with downloadable bulletin that we
> did on Lent 4 (before my quarantine). Each time I've done one, I've learned
> something new.  I might have it all figured out by the time we're back in
> church together!  I used still pictures of me from Easter last year for all
> except the sermon, and people have said that although they loved seeing the
> church from last Easter, going forward they want more "live" me in the
> recordings.
>
> For the vigil I did manage to record the Exultet from inside the church (I
> love the cavern feeling to the sound) - did it weeks before - on the day
> that Rick had called me and said he wasn't feeling well.  I had that gut
> feeling that I wouldn't be back in the church again before Easter to do
> it!  I had wanted to light the new fire in our backyard, but the winds were
> howling the two days before . . . so instead I flipped the switch and lit
> our gas fireplace!  I couldn't find a stock image/video of a burning candle
> that I liked for the visual with the audio for exultet . . . so I filmed 6
> minutes of a burning candle in the dark myself.  It was labor intensive and
> I spent a LOT of time getting Holy Week and Easter services pulled
> together!  I am glad to only have one to do this week.
>
> Our YouTube channel is at
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_gTwusmLpO3uwBi_Q6994Q
> It gets very little traffic - under 40 views of the Easter service, while
> our Facebook page has gotten over 400 views of the same service.  But I'll
> keep putting things up on both.
>
> Suzie
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:18 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Suzie,
> > I’d love to know how to “stitch” pieces of the service together. One of
> > our bishops is making a sermon available for this coming Sunday for those
> > of us who might want to use it, and they’re going to do more of that,
> but I
> > don’t know how to insert it. Our former listsib Georgia DuBose partnered
> > with two other churches for Palm Sunday and Easter, each doing part of
> the
> > liturgy from their church with their organist, small choir, etc. then
> some
> > tech guru put it all together for them. It was really fun to see the
> > service move from one venue to another. Now, of course, there’s no more
> > possibility for that.
> >
> > > On Apr 16, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > As a priest, I found it odd and even a little, to use M’s word, creepy
> > to do any part of the liturgy alone in the church.  Even the one we did
> > where there were two other people in the building.  I didn’t like it and
> it
> > didn’t do much for me spiritually.
> > >
> > > We suspected my husband had a mild symptom case of COVID-19, so I lived
> > isolated in my home from him and quarantined from the outside world for
> > over 2 weeks. That meant that I couldn’t go to the church to do the
> > solo-(or semisolo) liturgy bit anyway.  Instead I’ve had people record
> > reading from home and email them to me and I’ve stitched all the pieces
> > together into a video that was scheduled for online worship on both
> > Facebook and YouTube.  I came out of that situation (quarantine) on Holy
> > Saturday. Had a conversation with the vestry at our brief weekly zoom
> > check-in this week, and they want us to keep doing it that way. They love
> > hearing all the different voices (including some of our more elderly
> > readers and some of the children), they like the pieces that show me in
> my
> > home just like they are in theirs, and they like that this allows me to
> > also put most of the words on the screen for them as well. Ease of use.
> > Solidarity of place.
> > >
> > > But I absolutely LOVE the idea of a zoom coffee hour just before. I
> > don’t do the Eucharistic prayer - just the Liturgy of the Word - and
> > schedule ours at 10 so that people can go on to the Washington Cathedral
> > service afterwards if they want the spiritual communion offering. But I’m
> > going to add coffee hour before the service. That’s a great way to
> “gather”
> > and know yourself to “be” with others from the church for worship.
> > >
> > > Suz
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:43 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I want to add:
> > >>
> > >> seeing a priest alone in an empty church is NOT something I find
> > helpful.
> > >> In fact, it's downright creepy.
> > >> Even pornographic.
> > >> -M, a member of the "liturgy is participatory" party
> >
>
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