Today's session sponsored by www.sermonspice.com – very inspiring.
Christians and the church have historically operated 5 to 10 years behind cultural trends. The trend that is sweeping our cultural landscape now is grassroots media. With the success of websites like YouTube and other user contributed sites, our culture has much to offer in terms of creativity and entertainment, especially in terms of cinematography. No other medium has the potential that film provides. Film can evoke emotion, potentially engage all of your senses; it can challenge you, piss you off, make you cry, make you laugh. It can incorporate nearly every art form while everyone with a video camera and computer is capable of creating.
With this amount of potential, is film and video still the most underutilized creative medium in our churches (in my church?)?
Sermonvideos offered three unique challenges to 'get in the game'.
Write –
Studios are hungry for good material and line items in budgets are being deleted because there is no material to spend the money on. Christians have an opportunity like none before with the money that Hollywood is willing to spend on Faith-based films because of the success they bring in the box office & sales. And even if a screen play never makes it to Hollywood, there are a growing number of successful means to get material out to the public.
Grow a culture of creatives and film makers –
Host a film festival. Film festivals are remarkably cheap to fund. Every community has them, why not sponsor them. It would send a message of validation and respect to the artists in the community, and would work to grow a culture of creativity in the church. The church could pay the entrance fee of the winning film to Cainns or the Atlanta Film Festival.
Distribute your work –
Sites like sermonspice make it possible to not only distribute, but sell your work and allow others to benefit from it.
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