Video Training
At Mars Hill Church we desire to have well trained video technicians who are able to operate the equipment in front of them, in order to facilitate the Sunday services. Since our main sermon content delivery is via video playback, it is essential that the video look the best that it can. This also means that the technicians should know what they are doing.
The Production Technology (ProTech) Department has worked with production managers at various campus to establish a training method which will work for the majority of campuses. To accomplish this the training has been broken down into a multi-tiered approach which each build on each other, giving us a well rounded and knowledgeable technician. The thought being similar to building a house. If you just build the walls and not use a foundation, the walls will eventually fail, causing the roof to come tumbling down. The video training has been broken out into the following levels:
- Video 100 level – the foundations of video: everything from the physics of video to terminology
- Video 200 level – the video technician: Who is the the person? What is expected of them? How do they get to worship?
- Video 300 level – the equipment: What equipment is the Video Technician using? How does it operate?
- Video 400 level – operations: How to use the equipment is various situations
- Video 500 level – mentoring: At the campus grooming of the Video Technician. This includes refinement of the person’s abilities.
ProTech will be the primary provider of training for the 100, 200, 300 and 400 levels, primarily through this website. The campuses will be the primary provider of the 500 level training where it gets into the artistic side of how the video and images are put together. The Campuses are welcome to utilize the knowledge base of the media and communications video department, to speak into what is a good and poor choice of video and why. This break down was determined based on the campuses having a good understanding of their own bands and the feel/mood/theme of the campus or service, and ProTech having a good understanding of the equipment and fundamentals of the systems. ProTech will continue to be involved in the 400 and 500 level training but in a secondary role. As we build the new training information, if you have any information you would like to see here, please contact us.
Below is the in depth break out of the video training:
Video 100 – Fundamentals
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Video 200 – The Technician
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Video 300 – Equipment
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Video 400 – Operations
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Video 500 – Mentoring
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