Church stage designs didn’t always start out with multi-million dollar video walls, 4K Black Magic ATEM video switchers and million dollar audio consoles. Instead you simply had a choir loft, several hanging can lights, and a large podium with a single microphone that always got bumped every time the pastor opened his Bible or got too into his message.
Graphic designing is a field that is changing very quickly in every aspect, and it is very important for a graphic designer to learn new technical skills as well as concentrate on improving creativity. You can use some useful graphic design tips to manage your workflow and introduce more creativity into your work as graphic designing is a specialized skill which involves a lot of creativities and you will benefit more if you can apply some good ideas to your graphics.
A question I often get presented with when I tell them I distribute motion backgrounds is, “What do you do with motion backgrounds?” Unbeknownst to them, motion backgrounds are used in almost every tv commercial. If you tune out the audio and the theme of the commercial and simply watch the backgrounds used, it is incredible to see how many different video loops and backgrounds are used to compile these ads.
Recently I was working on a Christmas production for a church and I decided to use one of my own motion backgrounds for the title. The title was Journey to the Manger, so I picked out one of my most recent Christmas motion backgrounds, Cradle at Night, and decided to build the intro in After Effects.
Amazing motion backgrounds can sometimes be found in the most random of places. I was recently walking down the street and encountered some emergency vehicles passing out candy for Halloween. As always, I had my camera with me and decided to capture a few seconds of a nice bokeh background effect.
We are nearly half way through fall and if you haven’t explored our new selection of autumn motion backgrounds, then take a quick peak at them here and see if you find anything you like. Most of the fall backgrounds are brand new this year and we will constantly be adding more.
I was at a concert recently, enjoying some of the music by Big Daddy Weave, Group One Crew and a few other bands. Even though I was actually directing the video cameras for the shoot that evening, I had no control over the media the bands used on their giant video wall screen. Previously, they have set up the stage and all their media before they went on tour, so there is nothing that was directly influenced by me.
Football is here, which means that it’s fall!!! For those of us that watch the National Football League, it has been painfully a slow hot summer. What a drag. However, as the cooler weather sets in, the leaves start changing, and the team spirit starts being displayed everywhere, you know that only can mean one thing. It’s time for football.
